Fel tauri
Made from ox bile — the bitter of the old apothecary's gall, a genuine digestive drug of the pharmacopeias for two centuries, and the classical remedy of the obstructed gall.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of a gall that will not empty: pain and obstruction in the biliary passages, the jaundiced tint with the torpid digestion, the clay-coloured stools of the blocked flow, and the books' great bile remedy — the apothecary's ox-gall serving the duct it empties. The obstructed-gall remedy: that is Fel tauri.
The substance, in plain words
Ox bile is the dried bile of the ox — a genuine, official drug of the old pharmacopeias for two centuries, its bile acids genuinely digesting fats and moving the gall, used exactly as the remedy's portrait describes. The proving gave the ox-gall the obstructed-biliary portrait.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Anxiety about health. Worry over the right side, the jaundice, the obstruction.
- Irritability. Cross, worse after eating and in the damp.
- Dullness. Heavy mind with the hepatic torpor.
The body
- Biliary obstruction. The keynote: pain and obstruction of the gall passages — the books' great use of the ox's own bile.
- Jaundiced tint. The yellow skin and eyes of the blocked flow.
- Clay-coloured stools. The pale, clay stool of the biliary chapter.
- Worse fats and rich food. The fats and the rich meal thicken the obstruction.
- Worse cold damp and night. Wet weather and night deepen the right side.
- Better for the bile flowing and rest. The flow of bile and rest ease the passage.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| fats and rich food; cold damp weather; night; eating. | the bile flowing; rest; warmth. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Gall-bladder and bile ducts, liver, digestion, general vitality.
Where the classical picture comes from
The official ox-bile's proving gave the obstructed-gall portrait; Fel tauri became the classical remedy of the blocked biliary flow — the apothecary's gall serving the duct it was sold to empty.
The substance in real medicine Pharmacology
What this section is: the pharmacology and toxicology of the source substance. It is not clinical evidence that a homeopathic preparation of it treats any condition. What controlled trials do and do not show is set out on the Evidence page.
Ox bile was a genuine, official digestive drug of the pharmacopeias for two centuries — its bile acids really emulsify fats and move the gall — retired when modern hepatology and surgery arrived. Its chemistry survives in genuine modern bile-acid drugs: ursodeoxycholic acid, used today to dissolve certain gallstones and treat cholestatic liver disease — the ox's gift, refined.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Chionanthus virginica | Blocked gall | Chionanthus is the blocked-gall fullness with the clay stools; Fel tauri is the ox-bile chapter of the same obstruction. |
| Chelidonium majus | Liver and right side | Chelidonium shoots to the right scapula and is food-better; Fel tauri is the obstruction itself. |
| Carduus marianus | Engorged liver | Carduus is the engorged, positional liver; Fel tauri the obstructed biliary flow. |
| Magnesia muriatica | Hepatic constipation | Mag mur is the milk-worse hepatic constipation; Fel tauri the obstructed gall. |