Properties of laxatives

Some laxative medicines cause great harm, for example, black hellebore and turbite, if it is of the yellow variety, and not the good white one, agaric officinalis, when it is not pure white, but blackish, and also wolf's bast. They are all bad drugs.

If you happen to take any of them and bad symptoms appear, then it is better to expel this medicine from the body, if possible, by vomiting or deflating and treat with teriyak.

The harmfulness of most of these remedies, such as putrid yellow turbite, and the disgust they cause in the soul, are eliminated by drinking very cold water and sitting in it, as well as by using everything that dulls the sharpness of the medicine, bringing benefit due to its stickiness, softening effect and oiliness with stickiness.

Some medicines are suitable for some natures and not for others. Scammonium has only a weak effect on the inhabitants of cold countries, unless it is taken in large quantities, as is usually the case in the country of the Turks. Sometimes in some countries, in relation to some bodies, medicines should not be used in their natural form, but only the power extracted from them should be used.

Fragrant spices should also be added to laxative medications to maintain the strength of the organs. Cardiac remedies occupy a prominent place in this matter, for they strengthen the animal pneuma in every organ. Most of these medications help by liquefying and causing fluid to flow.

Sometimes two remedies are combined, one of which quickly has a laxative effect on the juice it is intended to remove, while the other acts slowly. Then the first will finish exerting its effect even before the second begins, and will prevent the second from acting on its juice and break the power of the second. When the second medicine then begins to act, its strength will no longer be active, ineffective. Therefore, you should add to it something that accelerates its action, for example, ginger is added to the turbite, which will not leave the turbite in a passive state for a moment. This will happen if you mix them properly.

You should pay attention to the rules that we outlined about the power of laxative drugs when we talked about the general rules of simple drugs.

A laxative medicine sometimes has a laxative effect due to its dissolving property, such as turbite, sometimes it has a laxative effect due to its squeezing property, such as myrobalans, sometimes it has a laxative effect due to its emollient property, such as shirkhusht, and sometimes it has a laxative effect. action, causing slip, such as the mucilage of plantain and drain.

Most strong drugs are somewhat poisonous and have a laxative effect on human nature. The harm is eliminated by means that have the properties of a bezoar.

Bitterness, pungency, astringency, astringency and acid often help the action of a laxative drug when they correspond to the same property.

Truly, bitterness and pungency help to dissolve, and astringency helps to compress, acid breaks off and prepares for sliding.

You should not combine a medicine that makes you slide with an astringent medicine so that their strength becomes equal. In such cases, one of them is given after the other. If, for example, one of the two medicines was emollient, then it will have an effect before the astringent has an effect. Then the astringent will join it and have a laxative effect on what has been softened, and so on.