Treatment of headaches resulting from a hangover

In case of a headache from a hangover, first of all, you should cleanse the stomach by vomiting with the help of sikanjubin and radish seeds, or sikanjubin with squeezed radish juice, or sikanjubin with warm water, as well as with the help of mild and medium emetics, which you will learn about in the Pharmacopoeia . And if it is not necessary to induce vomiting or its use is postponed, then make a relaxation with the help of iyaraja, which is strengthened with scammonium resin so that it does not remain in the stomach for a long time. When there is an obstacle to the use of hot medicine in the form of some other disease, then release the nature with a decoction of myrobalans or laxative fruit wine. If the soul of the patient does not tolerate such things, then release the nature with the help of the juice and pulp of both types of pomegranate, as we say in the Pharmacopoeia, strengthening them with a small amount of scammonium resin, and do not pay attention to its warmth. If there is an obstacle to bowel movements, no matter how they are performed, patients should be forced to sleep until the wine in their stomach is digested. This becomes obvious by the color of the urine, which becomes colored. For such patients, they rub their feet with salt and violet oil and pour chamomile infusion over their limbs. Then they should be taken to a bathhouse and not very cooled rose oil should be poured over their heads. They are fed lentils, unripe grapes and the like, and also cabbage because of its inherent property of keeping steam away from the head. Galen says: If you start feeding such a sick person with chicks of pigeons, you will not go wrong. Apparently, the reason for this is the liquid blood they generate and the ability of their meat to disperse vapors. Such patients should be given astringent fruits, and their drink should be water only, unless, of course, their stomach is weak and there is no fear that it will become sluggish. Then don’t let him drink a lot of cold water and drink sour pomegranate juice and especially Persian rhubarb. Give also thickly brewed and condensed juice, citron acid and, especially, thickly brewed citron juice, as well as quinces, apples and the like; Useful for this is dry coriander powder with an equal amount of sugar by weight. Then put the patient to sleep and give him rest, for this is the basis of treatment. If the headache does not go away, then repeat all this again the same day and the next day and give cooling, moisturizing or thinning food like egg yolks. Pour plenty of hot water over the patient to dispel the headache, and try to put him to sleep as best you can. If the nausea goes away but the headache remains, stop using rose oil, as it will only cause harm in the future; after all, at first it was required in order to strengthen the head and drive away fumes, but now the need for this has disappeared. Now rose oil, you should use chamomile oil, pouring it generously on your head so that the headache dissipates, and if this does not go away, then use iris oil: it is extremely useful and tried and tested

When the hangover becomes easier and begins to decrease, make the patient walk a little or push him on a swing. At this time, feed him fish, rooster eggs and chickens with vegetables that are cold by nature. Such patients should not walk or move earlier than three hours after eating, and in general it is better for digestion to occur during sleep or with prolonged rest, so that the stomach is a little easier. Then prescribe sugar sikanjubin if the patient’s nature is hot, and honey sikanjubin if it is cold. Then you should start rubbing the legs, and after this the patient is forced to walk without getting tired, or do some other, also non-tiring movements. At the same time, he should refrain from using pure vinegar and murri, and if this is unavoidable, then let him consume mild vinegar. After the patient walks a little, he must take a bath and also go to the sauna. At the end of treatment, various waterings with moderate dissolving properties should be used and easily digestible meat should be given.

A good hangover cure. Take equal quantities of chicory seeds, cabbage, peeled barberry seeds, sumac, peeled lentils, roses and burnt reed roots, mix everything together and drink three dirhams of this with one qirat of camphor or with one uqiya of pomegranate juice or Persian rhubarb juice, or with sour citron juice, liquid or thickly brewed.