Sentry Page Protection
Confectio Hamech
Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy
Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy
Tradition:
Western, Unani
Source / Author:
Mesue, Fernelius
Herb Name
Yellow Myrobalan
Chebulic Myrobalan Black Myrobalan Violet Colocynth pulp Polypody Wormwood Thyme Senna Aniseed Fennel seed Rose |
|
Bruise and digest in 6 lbs. of Whey for 24 hours, then boil to half. Press, strain and add:
Herb Name
|
|
With 1 lb. each of Sugar and clarified Honey, boil to the thickness of Honey, adding towards the end the following in fine powder:
Herb Name
|
|
Preparation:
Follow the above direction to form an Electuary.
Function:
Purges Melancholy
Use:
1. Chronic Skin diseases: Eczema, Leprosy
2. Leprosy
3. Syphilis, Gonorrhea
4. Fibroids
5. Cancer
6. Ravings, Frenzy, Madness, Mental Illness
7. Melancholy
8. Chronic Headache, Migraine
9. Vertigo
10. Lethargy
11. Hypochondriac Melancholy
12. Forgetfulness, Amnesia
13. Sciatica, Gout, Rheumatism associated with Damp
Dose:
3–6 drams in Wine, once or twice weekly in long-term use or chronic disease, or daily for 5–7 days
Cautions:
None noted
Modifications:
1. For Fibroids or Cancer, take with Decoction of Dodder of Thyme
2. For Fibroids, decoct half handful Agrimony, Veronica, Scabious, Fumitory, Dodder with 2 drams each of Senna and Aniseed down to 6 oz.; add 3 drams Confectio Hamech
3. For Melancholy diseases or Leprosy, take with Diasenna
4. Virulent Gonorrhea: Confectio Hamech 6 drams, Sarsaparilla 1 dram, Turpentine 2 drams, Calomel 1⁄2 scruple; form a bolus. (Cooke)
5. To strengthen it in more obstinate cases, to 3 drams of Confectio Hamech, add Extract of Black Hellebore 6 grains.
This was originally of Mesue, but was larger, more complicated, and less well prepared. The above version, modified by Fernel, was judged superior, and was most commonly prepared by Apothecaries.
It ‘is very common at all Apothecaries: wherewith the Humors of the Gall, especially the Salt Humors which cause Scabbiness, the Leprosy, the Cancer, and all other diseases which excoriate and inflame the skin by their sharpness, are helped’. (Wirtzung)
‘This confection purges both Biles, and salt Phlegm; and thence conduces to the Cancer, Leprosy, Raving, Melancholy, Tetter, Itch, Scab, and such cutaneous affections’. (Renodeus)
Renodeus said ‘Barber-Chirurgeons use this, to purge all such as are infected with the French disease [Syphilis]; as though all had one temper, and but one Humor peccant in all men. But such of them as boast more gloriously, and are by conference with Medicks something more prudent, acknow- ledge the matter peccant in this disease, to be various, according to the various natures of the diseased’.
It ‘is very common at all Apothecaries: wherewith the Humors of the Gall, especially the Salt Humors which cause Scabbiness, the Leprosy, the Cancer, and all other diseases which excoriate and inflame the skin by their sharpness, are helped’. (Wirtzung)
‘This confection purges both Biles, and salt Phlegm; and thence conduces to the Cancer, Leprosy, Raving, Melancholy, Tetter, Itch, Scab, and such cutaneous affections’. (Renodeus)
Renodeus said ‘Barber-Chirurgeons use this, to purge all such as are infected with the French disease [Syphilis]; as though all had one temper, and but one Humor peccant in all men. But such of them as boast more gloriously, and are by conference with Medicks something more prudent, acknow- ledge the matter peccant in this disease, to be various, according to the various natures of the diseased’.
Nothing at the moment
Nothing at the moment