About the benefits of vomiting

Hippocrates orders to induce vomiting two days in a row a month in order to make up on the second day what a person was unable or had difficulty vomiting on the first day, and to remove harmful substances that the stomach had absorbed. If these rules are followed, Hippocrates vouches for the preservation of health, but resorting to this too often is not good.

Such vomiting spews out mucus and bile and cleanses the stomach, because the stomach does not have a cleansing factor, which the intestines have in the form of bile, which flows into the intestines and cleanses them, and also eliminates the heaviness in the head and clears vision. Vomiting eliminates indigestion and helps those who have bile pouring into the stomach, which spoils food: if eating was preceded by vomiting, then the food enters the stomach in its pure form.

Vomiting eliminates the stomach’s dislike for fatty foods and the loss of healthy appetite, as well as the urge for spicy, sour, tart and rotten things. It helps against flabbiness of the body and against ulcers that form in the kidneys and bladder. It is a powerful remedy for leprosy, bad complexion and epilepsy, jaundice, standing breathing, shaking and paralysis.

and belongs to the excellent means of treating patients with lichen. Vomiting should be done once or twice a month, after the stomach is full, without observing a certain frequency and without counting a certain number of days. Vomiting is most suitable for people whose primary nature is bilious and unstable.