Wakefulness and insomnia

Wakefulness is a state of an animal in which the mental pneuma is poured into the organs - instruments of sensation and movement, so that it can use them; As for insomnia, it is excessive wakefulness and deviation from the natural state. The cause of insomnia associated with nature is the warmth and dryness caused by the fiery pneuma, which constantly moves outward. Warmth causes insomnia more strongly and earlier than other causes. Sometimes insomnia occurs due to moisture with the properties of bavrac hiding in the brain, or from pain, or from sad thoughts. Insomnia also occurs from bright light and strong illumination of a room, if there is a person predisposed to insomnia there. Insomnia also occurs due to indigestion and frequent stomach overfilling. Insomnia may be caused by substances that distend the stomach, move the juices, and cause dreams and night terrors, such as fava beans and the like; insomnia sometimes occurs during fevers due to the rise of dry and burning vapors in the brain or from pain. Senile insomnia is explained by the fact that the juices of old people have the properties of bavrac and are salty, and their brain matter is dry. Insomnia can also occur due to a black gall tumor or cancer in the brain area. It is said that if someone has severe insomnia and then develops a cough, that person will soon die. Speaking about sleep, we have already told you everything that should be remembered about it.

Signs. Signs of insomnia arising from simple dryness without matter and without the participation of warmth are lightness of sensations and lightness of the head, dryness of the eyes, tongue and nostrils, and also that the patient does not feel either heat or cold in the head. If insomnia comes from warmth and dryness, then the sign of this is the presence of a sign of dryness along with burning and burning. Sometimes this is accompanied by thirst and burning at the base of the eyes. Signs of insomnia, due to the fact that the patient’s juices have the properties of bavrac, are the presence of moisture in the nostrils and pus in the eyes, a feeling of slight heaviness in the head, rapid awakening from sleep and shuddering in sleep; This is also indicated by the previous regimen and the age of the patient. If insomnia is caused by strong lighting in the room or food, then the signs of this are the presence of these reasons. As for insomnia resulting from a black gall tumor, this is recognized by the presence of those signs that have already been mentioned several times. The fact that insomnia comes from pain, or sad thoughts, or from acute fevers is also indicated by the presence of these causes.

Treatment. If the cause of insomnia is dryness, then the patient should take moisturizing foods and, especially, bathe in a moderately warm bath. If bathing does not put you to sleep, it means that the patient is not balanced physically and his nature is bad and he is under the power of dryness or under the power of bad juices that bathing raises. In this case, it is necessary to refrain from long thoughts and from copulation, avoid fatigue and indulge in peace and relaxation; you should generously water your head with the above-mentioned moisturizing oils, milk milk on your head, use the already listed moisturizing pours, draw in and introduce various oils into your nose and drip them into your ear; Water lily oil is extremely useful, especially if it is injected into the nose. You should also rub the lower parts of your legs. For insomnia, which is also caused by warmth, treatment consists of enhancing the cooling properties of the above-mentioned drugs and using, for example, pumpkin peel, purslane, flea plantain mucus, shepherd's staff, tenacious and the like.

Soporific effects include pleasant, gentle singing in a slow rhythm, which does not excite the listener, or even melody in a low voice; That’s why the murmur of water or the rustling of trees puts you to sleep. Treatment of insomnia resulting from pain consists of calming the pain and using those remedies that are indicated for each type of pain in its place. For insomnia during fevers, most people give pure diyakuza to drink, and it puts you to sleep. The patient should also apply washing the face, watering the head, and anointing the temples and forehead with oil of poppy and lettuce; He should put white poppy seeds in his stews. Sometimes, for insomnia, they fumigate with numbing agents, which are prescribed in the Pharmacopoeia. If you dilute the saffron cakes mentioned in the paragraph on hot headaches in the squeezed juice of poppy seeds or in the rose water in which the poppy seeds were boiled, or in the juice of lettuce, and lubricate the forehead with such ointment, it will be beneficial.

Among the proven remedies against this disease is the following: take Ceylon cinnamon, opium and saffron, dilute them in rose oil and lubricate the nose with it. An ointment for whiskey was also tested, prepared from the peel of poppy pods and mandrake root, which was also given to sniff. Anyone who takes these medicines in the amount of a grain of lenticular vetch will fall asleep in moderate sleep. If the juice rising into the brain is thick, then a bandage of sweet clover with chamomile and maybukhtaj should be applied to the forehead. Among the means to lull patients with fever or other ailments is the following: the limbs of the person suffering from insomnia are tied painfully with bandages and a lamp is placed in front of him, and those present are told to talk and converse loudly. Then the bandages are suddenly removed, the lamp is removed and the people are told to immediately shut up, and then the patient falls asleep.

If you have insomnia from salty moisture with the properties of bavrak, you should refrain from eating anything spicy and salty, eat fish from rocky rivers and light meat, preparing a lightly salted decoction from it, and also do a bowel movement using shabyar pills and constantly lubricate your head with sweet warm oils. If this type of insomnia occurs in old age, then it is difficult to cure it, but nevertheless, every night the patient must pour water on his head with water in which barley, medicinal chamomile and simple chamomile were boiled and nothing more; it puts you to sleep well. You should also suck chamomile oil, or iris oil, or saffron oil into your nose. Sometimes we were forced to give a patient suffering from severe insomnia a quantity of qirat or so of opium to put him to sleep, if there was any fear that his strength would dissipate.

If the insomnia is not so excessive, sometimes it is enough for the patient to get tired, do physical exercise, go to the bathhouse, drink some medicine before eating that causes slight dizziness, and then eat. Then he immediately falls asleep.