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Purging Mixed Humors
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Bile & Phlegm
1. Rosed Aloes Aloes 4 oz. Damask Rose juice 1 lb. Soak Aloes in the Rose juice in the sun or a water-bath until the excess moisture has evaporated. Repeat three times with fresh Juice. Dose: 1 scruple–½ dram 2. Pills of Mastic (Mesue) Aloes 10 drams Mastic 4 drams Agaric 3 drams Powder and form pills with Hydromel. Dose: ½–1 dram 3. Pills of Three Solutive (Mesue) Rhubarb Agaric Aloe equal parts Powder and form pills with Syrup of Rose Solutive, or another suitable syrup. Dose: 1 scruple–½ dram 4. Assajaret Pills (Avicenna) Aloe 2 oz. Hiera Picra Galenii 1 oz. Mastic Yellow Myrobalan 4 drams 5. Pills to Purge Bile and Phlegm (Mesue) Chebula Yellow Myrobalan ½ dram Rhubarb 1 dram Traditionally formed into pills with Syrup of Stoechas. Dose: 1 scruple–1 dram 6. Pills to Purge Bile and Phlegm (2) (Mesue) Rhubarb Agaric Yellow Myrobalan Chebulic Myrobalan Aloes washed 1 dram each Dose: 1 scruple–1 dram 7. Pills of Rhubarb and Agaric (Mesue) 8. Golden Pills (Nicholas) 9. Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy Bile & Melancholy 1. Potion for Bile and Melancholy (Mesue) Black Myrobalan Yellow Myrobalan Rhubarb 1 dram each Rock Salt 1 scruple Infuse in 6 oz. Goat Whey for 10 hours, strain, express and add Syrup of Fumitory 2 oz. Phlegm & Melancholy 1. Infusion (Mesue) Black Myrobalan Chebulic Myrobalan 1 dram Dodder of Thyme 2 drams Infuse in 4 oz. Senna infusion for 10 hours. 2. Infusion 2 (Mesue) Black Myrobalan Chebulic Myrobalan 1 dram Epithymum 2 drams Black Hellebore 1 scruple Infuse in 4 oz. Senna infusion for 10 hours; express, sweeten with sugar. 3. Potion (Mesue) Chebula 5 drams Raisins ½ oz. Mix, infuse in 6 oz. Oxymel. 4. Pills (Mesue) Black Myrobalan Chebulic Myrobalan 1 dram each Epithymum ½ dram With squill juice, form pills. 5. Pills 2 (Mesue) Black Myrobalan Chebulic Myrobalan ½ dram each Black Hellebore Turbith ½ scruple each Form pills with Squill juice. 6. Pills of Fumitory Myrobalans, Chebulic Yellow Black Scammony, prepared 5 drams each Aloe 7 drams Powder, and triturate with clarified Fumitory juice, and dry. Repeat three times, then powder and with Syrup of Fumitory, form pills. Dose: 1 scruple–1 dram 7. Arabian Pills |
Complex and Mixed Humors
1. Infusion (Mesue) Myrobalans, Yellow Chebulic Black 1 dram Infuse in Whey, or Chicken broth; express and add in: Rhubarb 1 dram Senna 2 drams 2. Pills (Mesue) Rhubarb Myrobalans, Yellow Chebulic Black 1 dram Polypody Aloes washed Agaric 2 scruples Powder, with Syrup of Rose solutive, form pills. 3. Pills 2 (Mesue) Agaric Rhubarb 1 dram Aloes washed 1 ½ drams Myrobalans, Yellow Chebulic Black 2 scruples Powder, with Rose juice, form a pill mass. 4. Imperial Pills Aloes 2 oz. Rhubarb 1½ drams Agaric Senna leaf 1 oz. each Cinnamon 3 drams Ginger 2 drams Nutmeg Clove Indian Spikenard Mastic 1 dram each Powder and form Pills with Syrup of Violets. Dose: 1 scruple–1, or 1½ drams 5. ‘Pills without which I would not be’ Aloes washed with Rose juice 14 drams Prepared Scammony 6 drams The 5 Myrobalans Rhubarb Mastic Senna Wormwood Rose Violet Troches of Agaric Dodder of Thyme 1 dram each Form pills with Fennel juice or Honey boiled with Fennel juice. Dose: 1 scruple–1 dram 6. Polycrest Pills (Mesue) 7. Catholic Pills (Nicholas) 8. Arabian Pills (Nicholas) 9. Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy 10. Pills of 5 Myrobalans (Nicholas) |