Elephantiasis

This is an enlargement of the foot, just as with the expansion of veins, the matter thickens and compacts the feet. Sometimes the disease arises from black gall juice, and this happens most often, and sometimes it comes from a thick, slimy juice. It also happens that the disease arises from the same reasons as varicose veins, or from good blood, when it descends in abundance and the leg receives some nutrition from it, and at first the leg is red, then turns black. The cause of elephantiasis is severe congestion and weakness of the organ due to great heat and significant attraction of blood due to the strong heat rising due to its movement. The same circumstances that contribute to the expansion of veins contribute to elephantiasis.

Signs. Each of the causes of this disease is recognized by color and by the previous regime. Black-billed elephantiasis is hard, quite hot, and the red one is safer than the black one, while the mucous membrane is rather soft; black gall quickly causes cracks and ulcers. And the signs of blood are known.

Treatment of varicose veins and elephantiasis. As for elephantiasis, it is malignant and rarely cured, and should be left as it is if it does not cause suffering; if it has caused ulceration and gangrene can be feared, then all that remains is to cut off the organ from the very base. But if the disease is caught at the beginning, it can be suppressed through bowel movements, especially through increased vomiting; Often black bile and mucus are removed by bloodletting, if necessary, and then astringents are applied to the leg. When the disease becomes stronger, there is rarely any hope that treatment will help, and if there is hope, then let it be known that all treatment for this disease that gives reason to hope is diligent treatment of varicose veins and the use of strong absorbable agents. Kitran in the form of licking medicine and mud cakes is said to help.

As for the method of using varicose veins, you must first remove the blood through the vessels of the arm, as well as remove black bile and thick juices. It is necessary to correct the regime and avoid anything thickening, any tiring movements and long standing. Then they turn to these vessels themselves, open them and remove all the black bile blood contained in them, and at the end, let the blood flow from the jugular vein. Then, at short intervals, the body is cleansed, for example, with iyaraj fikra, adding a little lapis lazuli to weaken the iyaraj, and this treatment is continued as long as possible. And let the patient constantly drink dodder with cheese whey, completely refrain from movements and apply bandages to his legs, which are used to bandage them from bottom to top, from foot to knee. At the same time, astringent ointments are also used, especially under a bandage, and it is best for the patient not to get up or walk except with a bandaged leg. And the substances with which the sore spot is lubricated, especially after cleansing by bleeding from both hands and from the dilated vessels themselves, are cabbage ash, olive oil on which tamarisk was sprinkled, boiled lupine in the form of an ointment and pouring its juice, goat feces, fenugreek flour and radish seed; Indau seed also falls into this category. If nothing helps except dissection, then you cut the meat, expose the dilated vein and cut it lengthwise. At the same time, be careful to cut it across or obliquely so that it does not run down and cause harm. When you have done this, release all the blood in the vein, making sure that everything that can be forced to flow out flows out of it, and then clean it with a longitudinal incision. Sometimes the vein is pulled out and cut out completely; in this case, it must be completely removed, otherwise it will cause harm. It is best to pull it out by cauterization - cauterization in this regard is better than an incision. However, it is allowed to extract only red veins, but not black ones, and with black ones they do what we prescribed at the beginning, that is, they perform cleansing; It often happens that the ulcer does not heal until intensive cleansing is carried out and the black gall and thick juices are removed from the bottom. After cutting, stretching and cauterization, one should avoid what generates black gall juice and constantly cleanse the body so that excess black gall does not arise in it, because then the disease will return, since the path for matter is not closed, and what usually moves from the leg will begin to move to more noble organs. However, with a puncture and incision, there is a danger of returning the rushing matter to an ignoble organ, from which it will go to higher-lying organs. Therefore, it would be correct not to pierce the vein or do anything with it except after effective cleansing. Sometimes swollen glands look like elephantiasis and doctors are mistaken, but when palpated, the gland gives in to the hand, and elephantiasis is the way we are