Abstract: The active agent ursodeoxycholic acid has proved therapeutically active in infants, inter alia for the treatment of cholestatic hepatic diseases. A problem when administering this active agent, a bile acid, to infants is its extreme bitterness. As a result of the present invention a taste-acceptable, liquid administration form for ursodeoxycholic acid with an adequately high active agent concentration is described. The liquid to be ingested is a suspension prepared accompanied by the addition of a swelling and/or thickening agent, which contains the active agent mainly in fine crystalline form as the disperse phase and only in a much smaller proportion dissolved in the aqueous dispersant. A remaining residual bitterness can be additionally masked by the addition of .beta.-cyclodextrin or suitable taste correcting agents.

Abstract: Chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid, both being natural gallic acids, are well known for the treatment of cholesterin gallstones, of biliaric dyspepsia, and also chronic liver diseases (only Urso). The object of the present invention is the use of these acids or a combination thereof for the making of a medicine for treating acute or chronic inflammatory illnesses of the respiratory organs.

Abstract: A soporific containing lorazepam for oral or rectal administration, containing lorazepam and diphenhydramine or a diphenhydramine acid addition salt in the weight ratio of from 1:10 to 1:75.The especially favorable weight ratio of lorazepam to diphenhydramine is 1:20 to 1:35.The invention also relates to a process for the production of a soporific containing lorazepam and diphenhydramine.