Treatment of acute fevers

Here we should remember what was said about measures to soften the nature and expel urine and means to promote perspiration and ripening, and then, after that, about emptying with medicine, as well as what was said regarding nutrition. As for the methods of extinguishing the intensity of heat, this is how cooling with air works, cooling with foods, ointments and medicinal dressings or medicines; Thirst is soothed by holding in the mouth, for example, plantain mucus, quince seed mucus, squeezed purslane juice and thickly brewed licorice juice. Ensuring that the throat of a person suffering from an acute illness remains moist and does not dry out is one of the very important and useful things. Sometimes patients receive great benefit from the use of enemas prepared from the squeezed juice of Indian watermelon, kissa, pumpkin and purslane with rose oil and a small amount of camphor. The air in the patient's room should be as cool as possible; cooling it is achieved by not allowing crowds of people, hanging a lot of fans and storing a lot of ice nearby. If the patient's house has recently been smeared with pure clay, especially one to which papyrus fibers are added instead of straw, then this is best. The limit of desire is when water cannons and sprinklers are installed in the courtyard of the house and fresh water flows there, or the patient’s bed stands near a pond covered with a net, and the bed on which he lies is made of Tabaristan or similar mats. The entire litter should be willow and quince branches and basil stems, sprinkled with rose water and strewn with apple and water lily leaves and rose and violet petals. And let there be trays in the yard with something fragrant - with leaves of good-smelling cold fruit trees, such as apple trees, quince and fragrant pear varieties, watered with rose water, quince and water lily juice and sprinkled with sandalwood and camphor, onto which a little fragrant wine was dripped. These are the measures in relation to air.

As for the diet, it is as you already know, and if, along with cooling, it is desirable to soften the nature, then use pumpkin juice and, especially, melon juice, as well as kissa and cucumber juice. Lettuce with vinegar is an excellent remedy. One of the drinks suitable for quenching the thirst of such patients is fucca, made from white bread and whey extracted from the dug after strong straining. If, along with cooling, it is desirable to lock up the nature, then give squeezed juice of sweet and sour and sour pomegranate, juice of unripe grapes, Syrian mulberry juice, unsalted sour lemon juice, sour citron juice and the like, as well as the juice of zirishk, that is, barberry .

As for ointments and medicinal dressings, they are prepared from well-known squeezed juices and especially from rose water and squeezed juice of fresh roses with sandalwood and camphor; in combination with them, coriander and chicory juice have a significant cooling property. Flea plantain mucus with vinegar and rose water also belongs to the same category. Pouring the liver area with cooling medicines is the most important and most useful thing, because if the condition of the liver is balanced, then this is the basis of well-being, and often the urine is even corrected.

If the patient has catarrh and cough or heaviness and tension in the head, then this indicates an abundance of vapors. In this case, you should not pour water or vinegar on his head, but rather let him sit, bending over the steam from waters corresponding in quality to what the circumstances require; if there is neither catarrh nor any other of the phenomena we have mentioned, then use whatever pourings and ointments you want. The most harmful watering when there is, for example, an overflow in the head is milking milk on the head: it sometimes causes a swelling in the head and destroys it. The safest time to water the head when it is full is when the vapor is bilious and not wet; At such a time, watering sometimes not only does not harm, but even helps. What kind of couples are found out by the quality of sleep or insomnia, by moisture or dryness in the nostrils. If you observe drowsiness or hibernation and your nostrils are wet, then beware of pouring and rubbing and try to pull the material down; when you see that the nose and face are very red, it is not bad to cause bleeding. Cool the liver with medicinal bandages, but when you begin to cool it, be careful that the cooling does not coincide with the time of strong perspiration and dissolution of matter. You should keep this in mind, because such a coincidence often turns out to be the reason for the prolongation of the disease; however, prolongation of the disease is sometimes safer than its severity.

In acute fevers, one should beware of the occurrence of abrasions in the intestines, because from them the weakness of strength increases, and nature does not want to accept excess into the intestines and expel them from there, unless the excess overcomes. Often the excess returns to the upper viscera, causing pain in the hypochondrium and swelling in the intestines, causing pain in the head. Sometimes a drink made from the sleeping pills poppy has a surprising effect, thickening the liquid matter, which at the same time ripens, and putting you to sleep.