Convalescent mode

You should be careful in everything with a person who is recovering: do not give him heavy food, do not allow him to move or take a bath, protect him from everything that worries him, even from loud sounds and the like. It is necessary to gradually accustom him to moderate, light physical exercises, for they are very useful, and to take care of the increase in his blood. He should be kept calm, amused and pleased, and should avoid defecation, especially through copulation. Wine in moderation is good for him, especially diluted and liquid wine.

Of all those recovering, it is most appropriate to prohibit abundant food from those in whom the crisis was hidden, for such a patient is predisposed to relapses. In such a patient, it is sometimes necessary to induce a bowel movement and it is best to use mild laxation in this case, especially if you see that the stool is bilious and resembles in its color and composition the juice that caused the fever, and you discover an appetite disorder. When you wish to perform a bowel movement, first give the person recovering rest and carefully strengthen his strength, and then void.

It is often necessary to simultaneously remove juices and strengthen the patient with nutrition. In this case, prescribe him healing, laxative dishes or mix with food suitable substances with healing and laxative powers, for example, for bilious patients - plums, manna, taranjubip and the like.

Sometimes convalescents benefit from increased urine expulsion, which cleanses their blood vessels. Well-known diuretics often act this way; diluted wine produces the same effect.

As for bloodletting, a convalescent rarely needs it, but sometimes it is also necessary; This is indicated by the patient’s appearance and signs of blood overflow, especially if you detect a semblance of blood clotting in the vessels due to fever and see pimples on the patient’s lips. In some cases, you have to bleed someone with a fever because of its poor quality, caused by the remnants of bad golden juices, and then you must remove the bad blood and increase the amount of good blood. In this case, it is best to be careful and not do anything right away.

Daytime sleep is sometimes harmful to the convalescent, since it relaxes him, but sometimes it is useful due to its calming effect. If daytime sleep is not suitable for the patient, it sometimes brings on fever, delaying the ripening of the juices and weakening the power of innate warmth. Prudence requires that for all those recovering, both those who have been cleansed and those who have not been cleansed, with regard to food and everything else, the same regime as during illness is maintained for another two or three days or even more, in a word, until the crisis day following the day of recovery. After this, the food is increased slightly. One should not lighten the regimen of a convalescent who has cleared himself and whose fever was benign - this would cause heat in his body and worsen his condition; on the contrary, he should recover in a few days from exhaustion and loss of weight and become well-fed again, since his natural strength is healthy. And those who are not like that are treated in the opposite way.

If a person who is recovering does not have an appetite, then he is overfilled, and if he has an appetite, but does not gain weight, then he is burdening himself with food beyond his strength and beyond the strength of his nature, which is not able to assimilate it and distribute it throughout the body. Either the person who is recovering has a lot of juices in his body and his nature is busy fighting them, or the strength of his stomach has dropped greatly, or his strength throughout his body is declining and his innate warmth also falls and cannot transform food so that it becomes suitable for assimilation by nature .

If such patients first want to eat, then it comes to loss of appetite, as ill health and overflow with bad juices intensify and increase; when the patient at first does not want to eat, and then wants to, because his strength is revived, this is much better than if he first wants to eat, and then does not want to. If the desire for food persists, and the body does not change and does not become stronger and fuller, then the strength and instruments of appetite are intact, and the strength and instruments of digestion are weak. It is best for the convalescent to gradually move from partridges and chickens to kid meat, and let him not return to regular food while there is constriction in the blood vessels.

Sikanjubin and all sour foods cause abrasions in the intestines of convalescents due to their weakness.

One of the methods of treatment for those recovering is to move to an area where the air is the opposite of what was before. The rules of treatment also include attention to what should be feared with a given type of disease, in order to counteract something that relieves it; Thus, those suffering from leopard should be wary of hardening in the chest. It is not appropriate for a convalescent person to sweat heavily in a bathhouse - this would dissolve his weakened flesh. If his perspiration is profuse, it means there is a surplus in the body.