Curdling of milk in the stomach

Sometimes milk coagulates in the stomach due to some reason that has arisen that thickens the milk, or because of a strong predisposition to this in the milk itself, or because of rennet drunk in the milk. This causes cold sweat, nausea and fever with chills, and if the milk has congealed along with the rennet, this is worse and more likely to lead to suffocation. The solidification of milk in the stomach is a phenomenon of the same kind as the solidification of blood, and from this the same bad phenomena arise that arise from the solidification of blood or from poisons. From the coagulation of milk in the stomach, there is a cooling of the body, a decrease in the pulse, suffocation, constricted breathing, and fainting; sometimes the patient’s stomach swells.

A patient whose milk has curdled in the stomach should avoid salty foods, as they increase curdling. On the contrary, he should be given vinegar, alone or diluted with water, and also dried mint in the amount of five dirhams. Mint is a wonderful remedy; it immediately dissolves milk and, due to its strength, prevents fresh milk from curdling and liquefies it. Give the patient a little rennet - before the miskal, it dissolves and removes thickened milk in vomiting or when weakened, and give him the above-mentioned medicines for congealing blood in the stomach, especially those of the ones I mentioned that are prepared with printed clay, or medicine with asafoetida and sulfur - sometimes they drink them equally with vinegar. Water with fig wood ash also helps if the ash is re-placed in it.