Signs given by sediment

Sediment that is unequal in composition and color and indicates an abundance of various juices is not good. The smaller its particles, the worse the sediment, for this indicates that nature is capable of expelling matter only after its particles have decreased. Often the smoothness of the sediment is a more favorable sign than whiteness, and often the patient whose sediment is reddish, but smooth, survives, and the one who has the sediment is whitish, but uneven, crushed, dies, and truly the good quality of the composition predisposes the matter to expulsion more than good quality her colors. The smoothness of the sediment also indicates that the juices have not suffered much from the disease, and good sediment, if its particles are small, also indicates that nature has worked hard on it, and the disease has not affected it.

Foamy, scale-covered sediment, the whiteness of which is due to the admixture of air, is very bad and goes beyond the limits of what is natural; damp sediment is also not good. Sediment with a thin, moving top layer is better than solid sediment with a flat surface, and more clearly indicates that the disease is acute, quickly reaching its limit. A sediment existing from the very beginning, which is not preceded by liquid urine devoid of impurities, indicates an abundance of juice, but not its maturity. On the contrary, copious sediment should appear after ripening, after the urine was at first liquid and after there was little sediment; if this is not the case, then the thick, sediment-giving matter is abundant and will kill the patient faster.

Colored urine that does not come from sediment also does not indicate well-being or maturity. This sometimes happens due to pain or fever, or fasting, because in a fasting person the urine is more colored and the sediment is heavier. A red precipitate indicates an abundance of blood and delayed maturation; in acute fevers, such a sediment is accompanied by severe melancholy and depression. If it lasts up to forty days, then the illness lasts a long time, and there is no hope that there will be a crisis even on the sixtieth day.

If the urine is rarefied, then the red, suspended sediment, which tends to the top, indicates, in acute illnesses, clouding of the mind, and when it is constantly present, one should be afraid of death; if the composition of the urine begins to thicken, and the suspended sediment gradually sinks and turns white, this is a sign of well-being. In acute fevers, when there are no signs of maturity, sediment in the form of pieces of meat indicates that these are particles of the torn membrane of organs, but not kidneys; when there are signs of maturity and there is no fever, this is a sign of the kidney condition you already know. If the sediment looks like fish scales and there is no sign of maturity, and the fever is acute, then it comes from the stripping of nerves, bones and blood vessels, and in other cases - from the stripping of bladder tissue. The pityriasis deposit indicates the same thing and indicates that the fever has begun to tear off the tissues in the depths. The difference between pityriasis sludge and bladder sludge is that when the bladder is stripped, there is evidence of pain in the bladder and the urine is mature and thick.