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Purging Mixed Humors


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                            1
½ 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)

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