Protecting limbs from the harmful effects of cold

The traveler must first rub his limbs until they are warm, then anoint them with some hot oil from among the fragrant oils, such as lily and banya oil. Maysusan is a good lubricant for them. If these remedies are not available, then you need to use olive oil, especially adding pepper and saliva or the milky juice of euphorbium and stinking ferula gum or beaver stream.

Protective bandages for the limbs should include galbanum and garlic; verily they protect; if they are not available, you need to use tree resin.

Shoes and mittens should not be such that the limbs are motionless in them; the movement of the limbs is one of the means of reflecting the cold from them. The cold has a stronger effect on a compressed member.

Wrapping the limbs in paper, hair and wool will better protect them.

If, for example, your legs or arms do not begin to feel cold without the cold getting better, and without good measures being taken to protect them, then know that this feeling is false and the cold has done its job. Then you need to take the measures that you will now learn.

When cold affects one or another member and kills the innate warmth in it and retains in the substance of this member what is absorbed from it and puts it to rot, then in this case you need to do as stated in the chapter on ulcers, in particular about malignant gangrene.

If the cold has struck, but there is still no rot in the penis and it is still in its natural state, then it is best to immerse it in snow water or in the water in which the figs were boiled; The water in which cabbage, fragrant herbs, dill, and chamomile were boiled is also good. A good ointment is tardug. An aqueous infusion of wormwood, pulegium mint, thyme and the application of rapeseed are also considered a good and useful medicine.

One must avoid fire and its power. You should immediately walk, move your legs and arms, exercise and rub them; then wipe, spread and pour over what we said.

Let them know that leaving the limbs hanging and still in the cold, without moving or exercising them, is one of the strongest causes of freezing of the limbs.

Those people who immerse their frostbitten limbs in cold water find benefit from it, the suffering seems to be eliminated in the same way as if frozen fruits were placed in cold water, and it happens that the ice seems to come out of them and envelop their surface . As a result, they will become soft and spread out, but if you bring them to the fire, they will spoil. However, the doctor does not need to know why this happens.

If the limbs begin to change their color, then it is necessary to cut the skin to allow blood to flow; in this case, this member is immersed in hot water so that the blood does not freeze at the mouth of the incision, and is not removed; on the contrary, the affected member is kept in water until the blood itself stops. Then they coat it with Armenian clay mixed with diluted vinegar. Truly, all this prevents damage to the penis.

Tree resin is useful both at the beginning and at the end of treatment. If it comes to blackening and greening of the penis and the frostbitten area begins to rot, then you should do nothing other than quickly cut off what is rotten, so that the healthy part located nearby does not begin to rot, and the rot does not spread. You need to act as we said on this matter.