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Bile from slaughtered animals can be mixed with soap. This mixture, applied to textiles a few hours before washing, is a traditional and rather effective method for removing various kinds of tough stains.

The human liver produces about a quart (or roughly a litre) of bile per day. Since bile increases the absorption of fats, it can help the body absorb fat-soluble vitaminVitamins are a class of essential nutrients that cannot be synthesized (either at all or in sufficient quantities) by a given organism and must be taken (in trace quantities) with food for that organism's continued good health. Humans require 13 differents: A, DVitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that contributes to the maintenance of normal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the bloodstream. Often known as calciferol . Forms of Vitamin D: Vitamin D lamisterol Vitamin D ergocalciferol (made from ergosterol) Vita, E, and KThis article describes the biomolecule known as Vitamin K. For the unrelated drug sometimes referred to in slang as Vitamin K, see Ketamine. Vitamin K is a group of 2-methilo-naphthoquinone derivatives. It is a human vitamin, lipophilic (i. soluble in lip.

Yellow and black bile were two of the four vital fluids or humours of ancient and medieval medicine; for example, melancholiaMelancholia ( Greek μελαγχολια) was described as a distinct disease as early as the fifth and fourth centuries B. in the Hippocratic writings. It was characterized by "aversion to food, desponden was believed to be caused by a bodily surplus of black bile.

Yellow bile is sometimes called ichorIn Greek mythology, Ichor (Greek ) was a mineral that was present in the blood of the gods and helped keep them immortal. It was sometimes said to have been present in ambrosia and/or nectar. When a god was injured and bled, the Ichor made their blood poi.

Bile is also another name for Belenus, a god in Brythonic mythology.