Treatment of different types of headaches by complicity and general reasoning about it

In all types of headaches arising from the involvement of other organs, one should pay primary attention to these organs, emptying them with the help of means intended for them and changing their nature. Along with this, the head is strengthened with the help of strengthening substances so that it does not accept matter; if the disease is in its early stages, then cold medicines like rose oil and vinegar are used; after that, if the matter is hot or the quality of the disease is hot, you always do the same, and if the matter or the quality of the disease is cold, you go to chamomile oil with myrtle oil, or to oil in which cypress resin is diluted, or to oil, cooked with cypress leaves and its squeezed juice or with tamarisk.

Having dealt with the organ involved, you look to see whether the secondary phenomenon has turned into an independent disease and whether the cause of the headache has become established in the head. Recognize also what is the matter and quality of the disease and then act as you already know. For that type of headache that arises as a result of the involvement of the legs, and the patient feels that something is rising upward from the legs, one should bleed from the jugular vein, if there is obvious overflow, or place cups on the shins and cleanse the body with ustumachikun. If there is no obvious overflow, then bandage both legs to the groins and rub the patient’s feet with salt and wallflower oil. If you know the place where the disease begins, then cauterize this place and apply an ulcerating medicine there so that an ulcer forms and suppuration begins.

As for the treatment of that type of headache that arises from vapors rising from various parts of the body, then if the cause is vapors rising to the head, the patient should, before the attack, eat fruits, and if they are not there, then drink cold water, although even on an empty stomach; The best fruit is quince. Coriander is also one of the useful things for this; This is one of the medicines that prevents the rise of vapors. This is also the case with headaches due to the involvement of the liver. It is especially helped by expelling urine and applying medicinal bandages to the liver corresponding to one or another matter.

As for the treatment of the type of headache that arises as a result of the complicity of the stomach, it is, in particular, due to the weakness of the stomach and, especially, the weakness of its mouth, due to which the stomach accepts bad juices that spoil the chyme. Such a headache most often occurs when the stomach is empty, and then the patient is given a piece of bread to eat, soaked in the juice of unripe grapes or in the juice of Persian rhubarb and similar juices or thickly brewed juices of astringent fruits with a pleasant smell. Then you should eat a soup made from bread or wheat flour, acidified, for example, with pomegranate seeds or something like that; If the patient eats a lot of it, the mouth of his stomach will become stronger. If the patient, before he does this, feels nauseated, he will vomit and he will vomit the bile that has poured into his stomach and rest from suffering. If the stomach is also still cold, then administer these things seasoned with hot fragrant spices. Or prepare julab with spices for the sick person. In julab, which is prepared for such a patient, pieces of bread should be soaked. If acid and burning are not pleasant to the stomach and irritation from them causes harm to it, then limit yourself to a piece of bread soaked in julab, either plain or spiced, depending on need.

It is very useful for such a person, before an attack of headache, to quickly eat a piece of bread or eat some stew, and when he feels that the food has gone down and digested, eat something astringent, for example, bread with thickly boiled fruit juice, or the fruits themselves, or bread with dates or olives.

Headache can also occur due to juices in the stomach. The first thing you should hurry up with is cleansing. After this, as well as during cleansing, the patient should be fed praiseworthy food, which is easily digested and forms good chyme. In terms of medicinal quality, let the food be close to what it deserves and at the same time be capable of dissolving, being well digested and laxative; If you do not find food that combines meritoriousness and the ability to produce good blood with both other properties, then give preference to meritoriousness and the ability to generate good blood over them. It is best to eat food after visiting the bathhouse. Vapors should also be eased in such people.

If the juices in the stomach are bile, then you should treat in the ways that we taught you in the Basic Rules, while strengthening the brain with rose oil or myrtle oil. For mucous and cold juices that excite strong winds, use more powerful emetics and thinning agents; if the juices do not disappear, then strong iyarajas with dodder decoction are used. In such cases, cutting the arteries at the temples or light cauterization at both temples, which does not burn the head, but narrows the arteries, also helps. Often the artery is lifted upward, cut or cauterized. The best way to do cauterization is to expose the artery and then cauterize only the artery itself, so that the cauterization action does not touch the skin. Hot needles should serve as cauterizers. If it is possible to postpone cauterization, especially in the summer, then it is postponed. The food for the sick person should be stew, and he should not chew anything until the end of ten days. In summer, he should be fed during the cooler parts of the day, and he should also not be talked to much. It is appropriate to stick astringents on the cauterized arteries, mixing anzarut and saffron with them; We will describe all this in the Pharmacopoeia. Sometimes lead is placed on the arteries and tied with a bandage so that they do not beat and cause pain; sometimes a piece of wood is also added. As for the strong cauterization mentioned in connection with such a headache, three cauterizations are done on the crown of the head, two on the temples and one above the pit at the back of the head. Under all circumstances, the patient should abstain from wine.

If the cause of the headache is vapors rising from the stomach to the brain, then it is treated, in general, with the same measures that we prescribed when talking about treating headaches from vapors rising to the brain from other organs. The same is true for the treatment of headaches that arise when drinking water, for they also arise from a weak stomach. The best treatment for such a headache is to give the patient a little fragrant wine to drink, and also to mix such wine with the water he drinks so that it does not damage the mouth of the stomach. As for headaches due to the involvement of the kidneys, peritoneum, uterus and other organs, what we have already said at the beginning of this part is enough to treat them. We have also already talked about headaches during fevers.