It causes suffocation, coldness of the limbs and strong suffocating muscle tension, and such a veil appears before the eyes that the patient sees almost nothing. Hemlock paralyzes the imagination, chills the limbs, causes spasms, suffocates and kills.
First, they use enemas and induce vomiting and relaxation as you have already been taught, and they start with an enema, and then they give you pure wine, giving it time after time and hour after hour, for it brings great benefits. After this, they give him cow's milk with wormwood and give him pepper and wine to drink, as well as beaver stream, rue, mint, asafoetida, laurel leaves and drupes, and thickly brewed grape juice. Teryak against opium benefits them, and other useful remedies include nettle seed, stinking ferula, wild cumin and maya - all this is given with wine. A decoction of mulberry bark and balsam oil with milk also help. Medicinal bandages made of wheat flour and wine should be applied to the patient’s abdomen and stomach area.