Treatment of yellow jaundice

Know that the intentions in treating jaundice are directed towards two things. One of them is the elimination of jaundice itself by diverting it from the skin and from the eyes with the help of diaphoretics and wrappings and eye remedies, as well as drugs that remove the matter below that creates jaundice. The second goal is aimed at the main one! reason in order to stop it, and this is done either by correcting the nature, or by strengthening the strength, or by using a tumor, or by opening the blockage, or by emptying it by bleeding from the basilica, from the small saving vein or from the sublingual vessel, as some doctors prescribe. And if bloodletting is impossible, then cups are placed above the liver area under the right shoulder blade, or below the liver, in the space under the ribs. Or they empty it with the help of relaxation, removing substances that contribute to the formation of matter, although the matter itself is not removed; Evacuation by vomiting is useful for all jaundice. As for the treatment of the harmfulness of the poison, since the most important thing here is to start with eliminating the cause, this should be addressed from the beginning.

In jaundice, due to the hot nature of the liver, the whole body, or the gallbladder, due to any cause other than drink or food, or one of these two causes, treatment, if there is an overflow of blood or bile, requires first of all the removal of these substances. The blood is emptied by bloodletting, for example, from basil, and the bile is removed by weakening it with myrobalans, smoke or scammonium resin in sour milk and in general with all choleretic agents, as well as various cheese whey, strengthened with myrobalans, scammonium resin and similar substances. Among the remedies that combine the cleansing of jaundice with the removal of matter is a good recipe for cheese whey: take goat's milk - three rittles and a handful of safflower, which are pounded and soaked in milk for some time. Then the milk is strained and left to stand so that it thickens overnight, after which the cheese is squeezed out, the whey is taken, a little honey or sugar and two dirhams of Indian salt are put into it; if you want to make the serum strong, put scammonium resin in it - about danak. They drink it - as much as they can tolerate - for three days. Here is another remedy that combines the cleansing of bile with the removal of matter: take the juice of radish leaves - one uqiya, the laxative cassia - seven dirhams, quinoa seeds - danak, sabura - danak, saffron - danak; This is quite effective in jaundice, accompanied by hot swelling in the liver or ducts, as well as fever. If you have jaundice, you should eat barley water and vegetable juice, as you already learned from the paragraph on tumors in the liver; there is no benefit in delaying the conversation about this.

When ripening becomes apparent, you boldly use medicines that include scammonium resin, sabur, and the like, weakening them first, for example, with dodder juice, chicory, and other remedies that you know. In general, until the tumor has gone away and her condition has become good, do not dream of treating jaundice itself. If there is no fever and strength is great - and this is a sign that there is no tumor - and jaundice is accompanied by burning, then sour seasonings should be prescribed, brown from fish, brown from beef and goat meat and fresh and squeezed fruit juices, especially the juice of both varieties of pomegranate on an empty stomach, as well as beef sikbadzh, fish sikbadzh, squeezed juices of cold vegetables. Many of these remedies, although they are food, have the properties of the strongest medicines of this kind in regard to benefiting and correcting the nature of the liver. Here is one of the remedies for this condition: take equal parts squeezed juice of radish leaves and squeezed mulberry juice and drink them in the amount of thirty dirhams; This medicine is also directed against jaundice itself and is also beneficial when there is no swelling in the gallbladder. Such patients are helped by donkey milk, which is boiled with a small amount of vinegar and given to drink, or squeezed wormwood juice with cold water. Sometimes it is useful to give the patient unleavened bread or coarse salt and a large amount of chicory for seven days: this flushes the gall bladder, eliminates its putrefaction and thickens what is in it.

Patients with jaundice are not allowed to drink wine unless it is very diluted and are allowed to consume only light poultry meat and poultry broth. Anyone suffering from jaundice from a hot cause should avoid night vigils, anger, increased movement and baths. When hotness is observed throughout the body, you must cool the liver and gall bladder and cool the blood vessels, especially if you use bathing in warm water in which cold and wet medicines were boiled. As for water, which is actually cold and has the power of an astringent medicine, it sometimes prevents the resorption of jaundice. In the treatment of hot liver and hot gall bladder, sometimes medicinal dressings are used on these organs, and sometimes they give cakes to drink and, by the way, cakes made from cucumber seeds, chicory seeds, lettuce seeds, pumpkin seeds, sandalwood, bamboo nodules and red roses, taken in equal parts. For every two dirhams of this composition, add one qirat of camphor, turn the composition into cakes and take it. The usefulness of applying bandages to the liver and adjacent areas with squeezed juices chilled in the snow, as well as both types of sandalwood and camphor, which are not removed until the cold is felt inside, has been tested. This eliminates jaundice and makes the urine clear the same day. If the cause of jaundice is a weakness of the liver and gall bladder, then it is treated in the ways mentioned in the part about the liver, because the treatment of the gall bladder itself is the same treatment as for the liver. We have already pointed out the ways of using the tumor here and supported the discussion about them in the paragraph about the liver.

As for jaundice depending on the blockage, all such blockages are subject to the method of treating blockages mentioned in the part about the liver, that is, bleeding and draining urine if the blockage is in the convex part, or loosening if it is in the concave part, depending on the what is needed. It is also necessary to abstain from all substances that bind and dry: if these substances are hot, they narrow the passages and increase the blockage. The correct way to start is by softening and moisturizing and then causing the blockage to open. Emollients are either hot and wet or cold and wet depending on the circumstances. When you open the blockages, at the end or at the beginning of the disease, then it will be correct to cause relaxation, corresponding to what the patient can endure, and in accordance with what was said above about relaxation.

Know that if you start with laxatives and it does not produce any effect, you must use strong opening agents and then a strong laxative, which is given to drink at once, in an amount corresponding to the strength of the patient. If the blockage is from something growing in the duct, such as a fleshy growth, then I can't think of a cure for it. But one of the doctors mentions such a medicine and says: squeezed juice of raw purslane, squeezed juice of raw radish leaves and juice of sorrel leaves are extracted by pounding; then they boil it all together, filter and add squeezed sorrel juice with a small amount of crushed lenticular vetch. The said doctor says: “And a little of this medicine is given to drink with radish seeds and melon seeds, peeled and mixed with one-fourth the amount of myrrh and bush.

If the blockage occurs from dryness and desiccation, and this is indicated by the condition of the patient’s body, then emollients and choleretic agents are used, for example, seed mucilage, cordia and similar substances with almond oil. If the blockage occurs from a hot tumor, then the blockage is treated by treating the tumor. When the tumor matures, then boldly, without fear, give it diuretics, for example, anise and fennel, and also remove bile from the bottom. But if the tumor is solid, then this is a difficult matter: it is necessary, after all, to treat a solid tumor, and before this is done, treatment should be directed to the jaundice itself using means that we will soon mention. The simple remedies used in this case are mentioned in the paragraph on blockages in the liver. Among the discovering medicines with good properties for this disease are sea onion and coffin, as well as cakes prepared from bitter almonds, wormwood, coffin, anise and agaric.

Here is one of the remedies that, along with the ability to open blockages, also have other properties: take large pine nuts - three dirhams, seeded raisins - five dirhams, yellow sulfur - half a bowl, dodder, mountain parsley seeds, black chickpeas and white incense - two dirhams each. The composition is pounded, sifted and the whole thing is taken one and a half dirhams with fennel juice; It is consumed like this for several days. This medicine cures and heals, and we have experienced it many times; oxweed is also one of the best medicines for jaundice. This disease is most severe when blockages form in the bile ducts, but enemas and laxatives help more in this case. Laxatives are prepared, for example, from dodder, polypodium, agaric, safflower, petroleum salt and similar substances; These medications are also included in enemas. A good recipe for this disease: take sabur - a dirham, scammonium resin - a quarter of a dirham, agarica - two-thirds of a dirham, squeezed sapwood juice - three dirhams; all this is turned into pills with squeezed chicory juice and drunk in the amount of a dirham, repeating the dose several times.

When jaundice becomes chronic due to blockages, they resort to medicine with turmeric, teriyak and similar remedies to forcefully open the blockage, as well as medicine with lac. If there is a fever with blockages, then quinoa is very good - it opens and thins, as well as the root of water lettuce; it is taken two dirhams with honey. The juice of dodder and bitter chicory with laxative cassia scales and bitter or sweet almond oil is also good. As for the remedies for jaundice, which are directed against the disease itself in order to cause its resorption, and at the same time help to open blockages and have other beneficial properties, these are medicines for drinking, medicines for washing and medicines for inserting into the nose, and these are the most useful for eyes and face. This also includes general therapeutic measures, such as frequent bathing; this is the basis of all treatment, as well as procedures similar to the bath, for example, using baths with cleansing waters; If the patient has the urge to urinate, let him urinate directly into the bath - this is also a means of treatment. And when he comes out of the bathhouse, let him wrap himself up so that he is not in any way struck by the cold, and lie there wrapped up.

As for other means, besides the bath, which consist of using medications, these are medications that remove jaundice from the skin. Medicines that remove jaundice remove it either by relaxation, or by increased expulsion of urine, or by perspiration, and it is best when sweat appears after exercise, fatigue and thirst, especially if wine is the diaphoretic, and also after a bath .

For those who want to treat jaundice by dissolving matter, cold and wind are harmful, unless they want to counteract the cold with too hot medicine and do not intend to collect it in one place. So, for example, the patient is sometimes given pepper and then, after that, put in cold water. It is said that it is beneficial for those suffering from jaundice to look at yellow things: this encourages nature to expel all the yellow bile matter towards the skin and alleviates the difficulty of treatment. As for me, I am not one of those who stubbornly denies such methods of healing, as many of those who philosophize about it deny them. Here is one of the well-known medicines for drinking: give the patient to drink while he is in the bath, two uqiyas of squeezed radish juice, half a dirham of bavrak and one uqiyah of boiled grape must: this will not slow down the yellowness. Or else: take a bunch of asparagus and a handful of chickpeas and boil them in a stone pot in five cups of water; This decoction is given to drink, mixed with wine, if there is no fever, and if there is a fever, then they drink it alone. Then the patient is placed in a bath of water in which the adiantum was boiled - it removes the yellowness. Another remedy: the “color” of soda in the amount of two dirhams in old wine is left to stand overnight in the open air and given to drink, after which bathing is used, as already mentioned.

Or they drink baked sea onions with seven parts of burnt salt, and give two phalanjars to drink at a time on an empty stomach. Or they eat seaweed in the amount of two dirhams, sprinkled on soft-boiled eggs, or in the form of a stew, or they eat pomegranate peels - four dirhams and arsenic - two dirhams; They take as much of this as the thumb can hold, and give it to drink in three ukiyahs of donkey milk. Or they give two dirhams or more of fenugreek to drink with water and honey and put the patient in a bath with cold water, or they take crushed adiantum, which they drink four dirhams with water where anise was boiled, or squeezed sorrel juice with a small amount of wine. Or they eat the feces of a dog that eats only bones, white without any black admixture, in the amount of four dirhams with honey, or dried beet leaves in the amount of six dirhams with water sweetened with honey, or sheep feces with matbukh, or squeezed radish juice in the amount of two ukiy and half a dirham bavrak, or dried mint - four dirhams with diluted wine - this is done for three days. Or they take black chickpeas - ritle and a handful of adiantum, boil until a third of the water is gone, and give two ukiyya to drink, or drink squeezed radish juice - two ukiyya, wine - ukiyya, or black chickpeas - ritle, balsam tree grains, incense, fennel - a handful of each, boiled in six cysts of water until one third of it is gone, and they drink two ukiyyas, and if there is no fever, then they drink it with wine. Or {they eat Chinese cinnamon - as much as three fingers can hold, with half the amount of wine and honey, and drink one and a half ukiyya with water and wine. Or they take the seeds of Magaleb cherries, peeled from the shell, and give them two dirhams to drink; or eat madder dye - one dirham with soft-boiled eggs.

They also take eighteen qirats of deer antler sawdust and drink it with furusatikun wine; or they eat pine nuts, azhgon and larkspur, and give them to the sick, or pepper with the white feces of a dog that ate only bones, in the amount of milaka, with wine. Or they fill the fruit of the coloquinta with wine and water, throwing away its contents, and drink; or they drink bear bile in wine, or they take deer horn - a dirham and a third, sulfur - two dirhams and drink this, and then drink wine. Or they take - especially with jaundice from blockages - rhubarb, hivfarikun, maidenhair, kachim and madder - in equal parts; They drink one dirham at a time. Simple medicines included in this category - they also open blockages - are wormwood, anise, hoofed grass, calamus, madder, gentian, branches of the balsam tree, agaric, kachim, cypress cones, bush and both aristolochia.

One of the remedies mentioned by doctors is easy - give partridge brains in pure wine to drink. Or they take the yolks of two raw eggs, dilute them in half of uskurraj wine and drink them. One remedy that is much praised is to give dried earthworms to drink; this immediately cleanses, just like bear bile. The following remedy has also been tested: the patient is given sorrel roots to drink and then forced to stand in the sun; after that he walks for a while until he warms up and wants to drink; they give him a decoction of maidenhair to drink and he immediately secretes sweat, profuse and yellow, especially if madder and mint are added to the decoction along with maidenhair. The same thing will happen if you give it to drink after a bath.

Here is one of the special diuretics for this: take two dirhams of cypress cones and give them to drink with a dirham of purified Ceylon cinnamon in old grape must, after which the patient runs vigorously; this removes all the jaundice in the urine. Sometimes hedgehog meat helps patients because of its strong diuretic and cleansing effect and because it is good for the liver and is at the same time a nutritious substance. Dodder juice, if you drink it in uskurraj with celery seeds and candy sugar, also helps. Among the special laxatives for this disease is the following: cut off the top of the coloquinte, throw away its contents, pour grape must inside, boil over coals, strain and give to drink. Here is one of the remedies that we tried: take sabur - half a dirham, scammonium resin - danak, petroleum salt - a quarter of a dirham, madder and agarik - half a dirham each; From this they prepare pills and give them to drink in the juice of various seeds. The medications that we mentioned earlier are also used, and we list enemas for this case in the Pharmacopoeia.

Nasal products include various squeezed juices that are injected into the nose of patients, for example, squeezed juice of crazy cucumber, squeezed juice of cress leaves, squeezed horehound juice and squeezed juice of artanis, which is taken as it is, or artanis is pressed and soaked the whole night in human milk, and in the morning they squeeze it out, heat it up and drip the juice into the nose. Or they take the squeezed juice of clover root, which is lightly boiled with jasmine, adding a little sugar, and injected into the nose, or the squeezed juice of radish, crushed along with the leaves. From squeezed juices, which are not very hot by nature, squeezed beet juice is used, and from cold squeezed juices, squeezed zhivochka juice or squeezed river asfayush juice. Vinegar itself, if you draw it into the nose and hold it for some time, and the patient is in the bathhouse pond, is an excellent remedy. It works the same way if you soak nigella in vinegar for one day and one night, then strain it and put it into your nose or sniff it as it is or diluted. From other means!, besides squeezed juices, take larkspur - a quarter of a dirham, grind and dilute in coriander juice and almond oil, taken equally, in the amount of ten dirhams. The composition is injected into the patient’s nose while he is in a bathtub in a bath pond, and sometimes a little wine vinegar is mixed in.

As for the eyes themselves, they are constantly washed with rose water, coriander juice and salt water. Washing agents for patients with jaundice are waters in which maidenhair, cypress wormwood, marjoram, Dubrovnik polyum, chamomile, and, especially, common chamomile, and also tribulus were boiled. Dill is the basis of these medicines. Sometimes, due to hot jaundice, citron acid is placed in them, because it strongly cleanses, tearing off all paint. Bandages are sometimes made from these things, and sometimes oils are made from them and rubbed in - for example, chamomile oil, chamomile oil, as well as condensed grape must oil and iris oil.

As for crisis jaundice, when the disease begins to decrease, treatment should be directed against the disease itself with the help of rinsing, as well as cleansing and diuretics. Sometimes you don’t have to resort to relaxation, and often one bath is enough. If you see that the urine and feces of patients are slightly colored, then know that the matter in them is thick and strengthen the diaphoretics and similar means with which you treat. Jaundice from poison is treated with teriyak and mithridate to counteract the poison, and then given to drink, for example, sour apple juice, pomegranate juice, squeezed chicory and purslane juice, mucus from flea plantain seeds and barberry, as well as everything that has a cooling and antidote property, and try to balance the nature, and then direct the treatment against the jaundice itself. We tried, at the beginning of this illness and, especially if the poison was drunk, to constantly give milk with almond butter to drink. As for the treatment of such patients with nutrition, we have already informed about it, speaking about the hot nature of the liver in the absence of its obvious weakness and blockages; You already know about the treatment of jaundice due to blockages and weakness of the liver from what is said in the part about the liver. Food for patients with jaundice is something that is light and tender and has the property of opening blockages.