A word about relaxation and its rules

We have previously spoken of the need to prepare the body for laxatives before using them, and also of the need to dilate the ducts and soften the nature, especially in cold illnesses. In general, being gentle before taking a laxative is a good rule, for there is nothing dangerous in it, except in those people whose bodies are extremely prone to indigestion. Such a person should not do this, because this will cause excessive relaxation.

To the laxative given to such a person, one should add something that has emetic power, so that the laxative does not rush out of the stomach before it has had its effect. It is necessary to balance the strength of both drugs, then the laxative will do its job, otherwise the emetic will work. Tongue-tied people are classified as people whose bodies are prone to indigestion and cannot tolerate strong medications. Most of their stomach upset is caused by secretions coming from their heads.

Dangerous things include using laxatives when there is dry excess in the intestines You must first remove them using an enema or liquefying and slippery agents.

Using a bath for several days before taking a laxative has a thinning effect on excesses, and it prepares the body well, unless there is some obstacle. It is necessary that a short time elapses between the bath and taking the medicine. You should not use the bathhouse after taking the medicine, because the bathhouse draws out the bad juice. Verily, it helps to delay the weakening, but does not contribute to it, except in winter. Entering the dressing room is not dangerous, because its warmth, of course, cannot draw away the bad juice, but can only soften it. In general, the air surrounding the laxative user should not be very hot, causing sweat and heartache. Indeed, such air will prepare the body to take a laxative. Massage and oiling are also preparatory means.

For someone who is not used to the medicine and has not taken it before, the doctor should refrain from giving strong laxatives. People suffering from indigestion, the presence of sticky juices, tension in the hypochondrium and those whose insides have inflammation and blockage should not be given laxatives to drink at all until they are cured by eating softening foods, bathing, resting and abstaining from things that lead to indigestion. movement of juices and inflammation of the viscera.

Those who drink stagnant waters and suffer from spleen disease need strong laxatives. When a person uses a strong laxative, it is better for him to sleep before the medicine has its effect then it will work well. If it is weak, then it is better not to sleep after taking it, because then the nature will absorb the medicine. If the medicine has already begun to act, then it is better not to sleep, no matter how it appears. One should not move or drink anything immediately after taking the medicine, on the contrary, one should remain calm so that the nature includes it and acts on it, for if the nature does not act on it, then the medicine will not have an effect on the nature. Meanwhile, you should smell incense that prevents nausea, such as the scent of mint, rue, celery, quince and Khorasan clay sprinkled with rose water and a little vinegar. A person who is disgusted by the smell of the medicine should close his nostrils and also chew a little tarragon to dull the taste power of the mouth.

If there is a fear that the patient will regurgitate the medicine, the limbs should be tied and after taking it, give him something tart to snack on. Doctors sometimes give him a pill, coated with honey, or pour honey or sugar into a syrup over the pill, so that a coating is put on it. One good way is to coat the pill with wax. Very extreme methods include the following: filling the mouth with water or something else, then taking the pill as it is, or doing some manipulation with it, and then everything is swallowed without any traces of the medicine being noticeable.

The decoction should be drunk warm, the pill should also be taken with warm water. Then you need to warm the stomach and feet of the person taking the medicine. When he has rested, he should get up and move a little, because movement helps. From time to time you need to take sips of hot water in such an amount that would not remove the medicine and break its power, except at the time when you need to stop relaxing. However, when you drink sips of hot water, it breaks the power of counteracting the medicine.

If a person with a hot nature, a weak build, and a weak stomach wants to take a laxative, then it is best for him to drink barley water, pomegranate juice, and the like before taking the medicine, so that in general a light and liquid food is formed in the stomach. For other people, it is better to take a laxative on an empty stomach.

Most people who take laxatives in the hot summer develop a fever.

Anyone who has taken a laxative should not eat or drink until the medicine wears off, and should not sleep while laxative, unless he wants to stop it.

If the patient’s stomach cannot do without food, being bilious by nature, with a rapid outpouring of bile into it, or if the patient’s abstinence from food and fasting have been prolonged, then give him some bread dipped in wine, after the medicine, but before it will have its effect. This often helps the remedy.

At this time, you should not wash the anus with cold water, but hot water.

They say that pills that need to be taken with decoctions should be taken with homogeneous decoctions, for example, a laxative pill for bile should be taken with a decoction of pharmaceutical fume, and for black bile - with a decoction of dodder, polypodium and the like. A pill that removes mucus should be taken in a decoction of centaury.

If you need to use such strong laxatives as hellebore and the like when emptying a dry body with hard meat, then first thoroughly moisturize the body with fatty foods, because, in general, strong medicines are very dangerous, that is, such as hellebore, since they cause spasms in a clean body, and in a body overflowing with moisture they set fluids in motion, which has a suffocating effect and directs into the insides everything that is difficult to push out.

When the harm from plants with poisonous milky juice, such as wolf's bast and resinous milkweed, increases too much, the harm from them is eliminated by sour milk, which stops diarrhea.

Often the medicine leaves its own smell in the stomach, and it seems as if it remained there. The remedy to eliminate this odor is barley oatmeal, because it is the most suitable of medicinal powders.

If a lot of time passes and the medicine does not have a laxative effect, then if it is possible to weaken it without moving any juices, this should be done. If they are afraid of something, then let them drink a few sips of honey water or honey wine, or water with soda, or insert a tampon into the anus, or give an enema.

Among the reasons that prevent the action of the medicine is the narrowness of the ducts, and it can be innate or caused by nature or the proximity of the duct to some sore spot. In people suffering from paralysis and sakta, the pathways through which drugs get to the right place are narrow, as a result of which the effect of laxatives is difficult for them. Taking two laxatives on the same day is dangerous and incorrect.

Each laxative is specifically designed for a specific juice. If it does not find him, then it bothers him and has difficulty exerting a laxative effect. The same thing will happen if the laxative finds the juice for which it is intended covered with its opposite juices.

Any laxative first removes the juice for which it is intended. Then it will bring out the juice that is close in abundance and dilution to the first juice. Thus, all juices are gradually removed, with the exception of blood, which the laxative leaves for last besides, nature is stingy to give it away. Attracting juice that is located far away is difficult.

If anyone is afraid that after taking the medicine he will feel heartache and nausea, then it is better for him to vomit with radish decoction two to three days before taking the medicine. The food of a person who wants to cause relaxation does not need to be heavily salted.

Often a laxative, especially when it does not work or something interferes with it, leads to heart anguish, nausea, fainting, heart failure and quandor. This often results in the need to vomit. The use of astringents is often sufficient to remove its harmful effects.

Drinking barley water after laxation eliminates the harm from the laxative and flushes out what is stuck to the ducts.

If a person with a cold nature has mucus predominant in his juices, then let him drink watercress washed in hot water with olive oil after the laxative and after it has had its effect. And a person with a hot nature should consume plantain in cold water with violet oil, tabarzad sugar and julab a person with a balanced nature is a flaxseed.

If anyone is afraid of ulceration of the intestines, let him take Armenian clay with pomegranate juice. Everything mentioned must be taken after the relaxation, otherwise it will stop the relaxation.

For anyone who develops a fever after a laxative, barley water is the most suitable As for sikan-jubin, it tears the intestines, and therefore it should be consumed only every two to three days so that the strength of the intestines is restored.

Anyone who has taken a laxative must go to the bathhouse on the second day if he has any residual juices left, and you see that the bath is good and pleasant for him - and this indicates that it cleanses him of the remaining juices - then let him bathe, however, if you notice, that the bathhouse is unpleasant and irritates him, then take him away.

Know that a person with a weak intestine from taking laxative drugs often retains laxative power for a long time, so he has to be treated a lot to achieve consolidation. In older people, you also need to be wary of the harmful effects of laxatives.

Know that drinking nabeez after laxatives causes fever and general distress.

Often, after relaxation and bloodletting, pain appears in the liver, which is eliminated by drinking hot water.

Know that the time of the appearance of Sirius, snowfall in the mountains and severe cold is not the time to take a laxative.

The laxative should be taken in spring or autumn. Spring is a time followed by summer, so in spring you should only take mild laxatives. And autumn is the time followed by winter, so strong medications can also be tolerated in the fall.

Not every time you need to soften your nature, you should resort to using a laxative drug, because this will become a habit and lead to bad consequences.

Strong medicine exhausts any person with a dry nature.

After taking weak medications, you should move less so that their strength does not dissipate.

Violet and sugar are among weak and beneficial medicines.

Anyone who needs to take a laxative in winter should wait for the south wind, and in summer, some say, vice versa. This has its own explanation.

If the patient needs a mild laxative and it does not work, then he should not be encouraged to take it, but should be left alone.

Often the illness itself causes weakness, and then fever occurs. And sometimes bloodletting is enough for him.