Fel Tauri

Fel Tauri

Ox Gaul.

Bilis Bovina.

N. O. Ruminantia.

Impissated gall triturated with sugar of milk ; or lower dilutions may be made with water.

Clinical (Fel tauri)

Asthma.

Constipation.

Diarrhoea.

Gall-stones.

Indigestion.

Rheumatism.

Characteristics (Fel tauri)

Ox gall is a remedy of very ancient use.

It is used in the old-school mostly as a purgative ; for preventing putrefactive changes in the intestines, and for increasing peristalsis.

It is sometimes given along with Opium to prevent the constipating effect of that drug.

In the stomach bile is a foreign body, precipitating pepsin and causing irritation of the stomach.

It does not aid the digestion either of albumen or of farinaceous substances. Fel. t. has been proved homoeopathically by Buchner, and has produced a few characteristic symptoms :

Diarrhoea,

Disordered digestion,

Headache,

It removed a tendency to sleep after eating.

Pains in joints, and cramps.

Several symptoms were noticed in nape of neck.

Relations (Fel tauri)

Cholesterinum, Mercurius dulcis.

Symptoms

Mind (Fel tauri)

Greatly inclined to all kinds of business ; unpleasant impressions did not affect him.

Peevish, irritable mood.

Head (Fel tauri)

Confusion.

Violent headache in morning, on pressure upon r. temple, extending on to occiput and nape of neck.

Mouth (Fel tauri)

Tongue white.

Stomach and Abdomen (Fel tauri)

Gurgling in stomach and epigastric region.

Increased thirst.

Odorless and tasteless eructations.

Rumblings and motions in abdomen.

Violent peristaltic movements.

Stool and Anus (Fel tauri)

Stool thin with urging and sensation of warmth in anus.

Stool thin, pasty, followed by pressing although with crumbling faeces.

Urinary Organs (Fel tauri)

Urging.

Urine offensive.

Male Sexual Organs (Fel tauri)

Scrotum itching and afterwards becomes moist.

Chest (Fel tauri)

Anxiety in chest.

Constriction ; on waking at 3 a. m. cannot sleep again for tightness of breath and cannot remain lying ; it seems as though something in throat prevented free passage of the air ; > by deep inspiration and sitting upright.

Neck (Fel tauri)

Tension in nape.

Limbs (Fel tauri)

Cramp in right toe.

Some tearings in left shoulder-joint, extending up to nape of neck.

Sleep (Fel tauri)

No inclination to sleep after eating, as he was accustomed to do.

Sound sleep in morning with some perspiration.