ABSTRACT: Bile acids have many roles in biological systems, and they have received great attention recently. Bile from a cow, known as gall, together with garlic, wine, and leeks, is used in the traditional medicine recipe of Bald's Leechbook, a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon formula for the treatment of infected eyelash follicles. Different aspects of previous works on bile acids have been reported, and this work adds antiviral, virucidal, and antibacterial properties of bile acids and their salts against SARS-CoV-2. Four bile acids, lithocholic acid (LCA, 1), deoxycholic acid (DCA, 5), ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA, 9), and chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA, 13), were used to form salts with l-carnitine [X], creatinine [Y], and choline [Z], which are naturally occurring compounds. Bile acids and their salts
