About bloating

Bloating is sometimes caused by food if there is foreign moisture in the food which turns into winds, and heat, even when moderate, cannot dissolve the foreign moisture without turning it into winds. Sometimes the cause of bloating is digestive heat, if it is weak. The fact is that even if a nutrient, by its natural qualities, does not inflate the stomach, then when the heat is too weak, it turns the food into vapor and creates winds. Matter that does not contain anything strongly bloating in its substance does not cause swelling in the abdominal cavity unless the heat is insufficient; in this case, heat moves the food but does not digest it. The complete absence of warmth is also not accompanied by bloating even in the presence of bloating food. Any food that does not cause bloating does not cause it either due to the absence of a bloating principle in its substance, or due to two reasons depending on other circumstances; one of them is the enveloping of food in warmth, and the other is coldness, which does not set anything in motion. Sometimes heat is capable of digestion and the state of matter corresponds to this, but an obstacle is encountered that makes the heat too weak, for example, drinking too much water or physical movement that agitates food. Sometimes the nature of food turns out to be bloating, as, for example, with beans, lentils and similar substances; in this case, the power of the digestive force and abstinence from actions that impede digestion do not help, unless the heat is very strong and the matter is very scanty.

Thick, sweet wine is one of the bloating drinks. If it is sweet, but liquid, then it gives rise to thin, thin winds that do not inflate the stomach. Often the cause of bloating is the fact that the food is hot in its natural properties. If, warming up during digestion and passing from a potentially hot state to an actually hot state, it encounters cold and moist matter, then it dissolves it and turns it into vapor. The cause of bloating and rumbling can also be the emptiness of the abdomen in the presence of immature glassy moisture in the stomach and intestines. When natural heat is diverted from it, occupied with the digestion of nutrients, then this moisture remains at rest; when the heat is released and turned to it, the moisture passes into the winds. Sometimes the reason for this is that if nature finds emptiness in the stomach and the forces of the stomach begin to move, heat moves the air poured into. cavity, and along with it the remnants of vapors formed from liquids move, becoming like winds. Bloating can also be caused by an abundance of black bile and disease of the spleen. Cold entering the body from the outside often turns out to be the cause of swelling and winds with which the body is filled due to the weakening of the heat acting on matter. In this case, the winds transform it into a half-action, and the action of heat is the bringing of liquids to maturity, while the half-action is their transformation into vapor. When bloating increases in the stomachs of people who are recovering, this portends a return of the disease.

Disease arising from the walls of the abdomen most often occurs due to the great warmth of the stomach and blockage of the passage of nutrients from the stomach to the body; as a result, they come back, get stuck in the areas adjacent to the stomach and cause sour belching and vomiting, which creates a sore throat, especially if the spleen is involved in the disease; The stool is then wet and the blood thickens. Sometimes a tumor occurs, generating black gall vapor and causing melancholy.

Signs. If the cause of wind and bloating is the substance of food, then this is sometimes indicated by turning to familiarization with what the patient takes in food, as well as the fact that the bloating is not very large, does not happen often, and does not happen at all when nutritional the substances are good. Belching, if repeated once or twice or three times, relieves this ailment. If the cause is an error against the regimen, that is, the patient drinks water after eating, makes movements that agitate the food and generally interfere with the digestive force, then all this is recognized by the presence of this reason and by the disappearance of bloating with a change in regimen. The difference between bloat due to black bile and bloat due to liquid, immature juices is that bloat due to black bile is dry, while the other type of bloat has fluid. A sign of bloating from other causes is the presence of these causes.

Treatment. If the cause of bloating is a bloating food, then the sufferer moves on to another food, follows the regimen well in the future and does nothing to counteract the digestive force. Before he begins to do this, the sufferer should lie with his stomach down on a pillow stuffed with something warming, for example, cotton. When bloating occurs due to coldness and weakness of the stomach, then treat with the appropriate remedies from those mentioned in the corresponding paragraph and rub in the oil in which substances that thin and break up the winds were boiled, such as kachim, azhgon or cumin, and if something blows stronger, then rue and its seeds, laurel drupes, stinking ferula, tortuous gill; the oil should be laurel oil, castor oil and the like. Sometimes it is enough to rub oil into the diseased organ, to which dill or medicines with the same effect have been mixed, and then apply a plaster with a strong dissolving effect, for example, a plaster made with hyssop, dill, ash water and similar substances. An enema of these oils is often necessary, and sometimes Zifta is added to it.

If the coldness comes from thick matter, then the patient is not given these medicines, because they sometimes increase the excitement of the winds. On the contrary, in this case, the stomach should first be cleared of matter, and then given medicines to drink; If the coldness is simple or there is little matter, then we do not pay attention to it and give medicine to drink. Here is one of the remedies that cures bloating and is of great benefit; a bunch of Dubrovnik is boiled in water for a long time and the patient is given this water to drink, or honey is added to a decoction of mint and given to drink. A decoction of galanga is very useful in this case, as is galanga itself, as well as galanga mixed with sagapen and made into pills the size of chickpea grains. At one time, give a misqal of this medicine to drink with hot water. It is one of the remedies that expels winds in abundance and liquids only slightly. Among the remedies that are of great benefit for stubborn swelling is beaver stream, if given to drink with vinegar mixed with rose water and old olive oil, and especially with vinegar of stinking ferula or sea onion. They say that burnt wild boar meat helps in this case. Sometimes, with mild swelling, it is enough to give the patient pure wine after eating a small amount of food. The patient drinks wine, goes to bed and gets up, healed from suffering.

Rub, useful for bloating: nigella, laurel drupes and rue are boiled in wine for a long time and the broth is filtered. Then they put half the amount of oil into this wine, boil the mixture until only oil remains, and rub it in; Nigella oil also works the same way. Says one of the doctors: “Basil is very helpful for children who have a bloated stomach.” Constant swelling of black bile origin is treated, for example, with shajazaniya, fandadikun, azhgon. If you need to make a strong bowel movement, you use “smelly pills” and place a sponge soaked in strong vinegar, preferably vinegar from stinking ferula, on the stomach area.