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Pilulae Aggregative

Tradition:
Western / Unani

Source / Author:
Mesue

Herb Name
Yellow Myrobalan
Rhubarb
Agrimony juice thickened
Wormwood jucie thickened
Scammony prepared
Chebulic Myrobalan
Black Myrobalan
Agaric
Colocynth
Polypody
Turbith
Aloe
Mastic
Rose
Rock Salt
Dodder
Aniseed
Ginger
Latin
Terminalia chebula (yellow)
Rheum palmatum
Agrimonia eupatoria
Artemisia absinthum
Convovulus scammonia
Terminalia chebula
Terminalia chebula (black)
Fomitopsis officinalis
Citrullus colocynthus
Polypodium vulgare
Operculina turpethum
Aloe spp.
Pistacia lentiscus
Rosa gallica
Sal Gem
Cuscuta europea
Pimpinella anisum
Zingiber officinalis
Amount

4 drams ea.

2 drams ea.
5 drams




2 drams ea.

6 drams ea.





1 dram ea.

Preparation:
Powder and form Pills with Electuary of Rose.

Function:
Purge Mixed Humors, Opens Obstructions

Use:
1. Complex and Chronic Fever
2. Chronic and Obstinate diseases from Mixed Humors (especially Phlegm and Bile, Damp–Heat)
3. Melancholy diseases
4. Opens obstruction of the Liver and Spleen
5. Chronic Liver disease

Dose:
1–2 scruples

Cautions:
None noted

Modifications:

  • Comment
  • History
  • Research
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Wirtzung (1598) said ‘These Pills be very good in all ligering Agues, in all diseases of the head, of the stomach, and of the Liver, they expel Cholera [Bile], and all slimy matter’.

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