Dam - blood

Essence.
Human blood and pig blood are similar in all respects, and human meat and pig meat are close to each other in everything. One man even sold human meat for pork, and this remained hidden until human fingers were found in the meat. They say that if anyone wants to carry out any experiment on human blood, let him do it on pig blood, for although pig blood is weaker in strength than human blood, it is similar to it. We will also write about what they say about blood, but most of these stories are without foundation.

Choice.
Blood used in medicines should be taken from a healthy animal; its color should not be dominated by impurity and rottenness.

Actions and properties.
The blood of horses burns and causes putrefaction; All blood is difficult to digest, especially thick blood.

Cosmetics.
The blood of the bear, when it is hot, is used to lubricate the bahak and freckles, and this is useful. The blood of the bat, as they say, prevents hair growth, but this is not true, but the blood of green frogs and the blood of ticks prevents this more. The blood of the bat, according to stories , keeps women's breasts as they are, but this has not been tested.

Tumors and acne.
The blood of a hare quickly causes the maturation of hot tumors; the blood of a goat acts in the same way after it has coagulated. The blood of a woman having her period is said to lubricate erysipelas; hot bull's blood - hard tumors, and hot hare's blood - milk pimples.

Tools with joints.
It is said that the blood of a woman having her period is dripped onto gouty joints, and this is beneficial.

Organs of the head.
The hot blood of pigeons, wood pigeons and doves is dripped onto painful head wounds that crush bones; If you mix the blood with lukewarm rose oil, it prevents the formation of a tumor that appears after a fall.

Galen says: “It is in this lukewarmness, and not in anything else, that the healing quality of such a medicine lies; If you don’t take blood, but use only warm rose oil, it will also act like blood.” The same is said about chicken blood. As for donkey blood, it stops nosebleeds if the blood comes from the meninges. The blood of a land turtle is given to drink with wine during epileptic seizures, just like the blood of a lamb.

They say that camel's blood helps against epilepsy, but this is not true. Galen said of camel blood: "This is because it does not have the property of tearing off the juices so much." I will say: if this is tested experimentally, then the effect of camel blood may not depend on its external force, but on a special property inherent in it.

Organs of the eye.
The blood of monitor lizards and stellion lizards strengthens vision, and the blood of mites prevents hair growth on the eyelids. They say that the blood of green frogs also works, but experience does not confirm this. The blood of pigeons, wood pigeons and turtle doves, as well as the blood of birdtails, especially taken from the vessels of the wing, is dripped onto bruises in the eye; the same thing will happen if blood drips onto them from the ends of the bloody feathers of these birds. Galen says: “We can do without it.”

Respiratory and chest organs.
Owl blood is very helpful for asthma, as is owl broth and owl meat. It is said that bat blood keeps a woman's breasts erect, but this has no basis. As for the blood of a young goat, if you take one uqiya of such blood before it coagulates, mix it with vinegar and drink it warmed for three days, it helps against bloody vomiting. The same applies to lamb's blood: some doctors testify that it is also useful in this case.

Eruption organs.
The introduction of menstrual blood is said to prevent pregnancy. The blood of goat, goat and deer, dried and roasted, stops diarrhea. Sometimes goat blood is drunk with honey, and this helps against dysentery. Dried goat blood crushes kidney stones.

Poisons.
The roasted blood of goat, deer and hare, if drunk in wine, helps against the harm caused by Armenian arrows. The blood of a dog also supposedly helps against the bite of a rabid dog, as many doctors, in particular Dioscorides, claim.