Treatment of meat dropsy

The general principles of treatment for dropsy are also useful for treating dropsy of meat. In addition, in the paragraph on waterskin dropsy, we have already given instructions on how to treat “waterskin dropsy”. Sometimes with “meat dropsy” there is a need for bloodletting if the cause of the disease is retention of menstrual blood or blood from the kidney cones and there are signs of overflow; in this case, bloodletting eliminates suffocating and heat-quenching juices. Bloodletting is more suitable for “meat dropsy” than for waterskin dropsy; If there is a fever with “meat dropsy,” then it is unacceptable to remove the fluid with medicine or bloodletting until the fever goes away. Cakes made from resinous milkweed, if taken as we described in the paragraph on waterskin dropsy, are more suitable for “meat dropsy” than for all other types of dropsy. The softening of nature is very beneficial for such patients; it should not therefore be locked up, but should be constantly released, at least with the help of some balanced medicine. Vomiting is also good for them, as is gargling, which clears the brain; brings benefits and relaxation, the best thing is relief with rhubarb pills.

For dropsy, especially for “dropsy of the flesh,” movements are also prescribed, first lying down, then sitting firmly on the back of a riding animal, and then little by little in the form of walking on soft, sandy ground; At the same time, someone accompanies the patients and wipes off the sweat so that the streams of sweat released one after another do not cause blockages. After physical exercise, they are subjected to warming up, especially in the sun, since the warmth of the sun penetrates deeply into the body; if the heat of the sun is strong, then the patient’s head is protected so that he is not struck by brain disease, and the remaining members are exposed. He should lie on the sand, if sand is available, mixed with the above-mentioned powders. When sweat pours from the patient, the patient is wiped and anointed with oil, such as mad cucumber oil and the like, and he must beware of the blowing of cold winds. The patient should drink lakka medicine, turmeric medicine, as well as kalkalanaj and use the above-mentioned diuretics and laxatives with thinning and drying properties; These include cakes made from saplings with juniper berries, which are taken in the juice of various roots and in sikanjubin from seeds, if there is a fever.

All simple medicines for waterskin dropsy also help with “meat dropsy” - even sagapen, bush, wolf's bast and Furbiyun. A decoction of juniper berries is very useful, even if you boil them alone, in such quantity that they turn the water red; then they take three dirhams of raw juniper berries and wash them down with this water. They also drink azhgon, cumin and rock salt. In case of “meat dropsy” from a hot cause, blood should be bled to remove malignant pus and diuretics should be given. When the vessels are cleansed, correct the nature of the liver with means that will return the liver from burning to its natural nature. Feeding during cold and hot “waterskin dropsy” and making the patient suffer from thirst should be done in the same way as during cold and hot waterskin dropsy.