Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition where liquid comes out in the form in which it was drunk after a short time. The relation of this disease to drinks and to the organs is the same as the relation of the slipperiness of the stomach and intestines to food, to the stomach and intestines. This disease has other Greek names; besides diabetes, it is sometimes also called diaskomos and faramis; and in Arabic it is called ad-dawwara, ad-dulab, zilk al-kulya, zilk al-majari wa-l-mabar. A person suffering from this disease is thirsty and drinks, but cannot get drunk; on the contrary, he urinates as soon as he drinks, and cannot hold urine at all. The cause of diabetes is kidney condition. This is either weakness that has arisen in them, expansion and excessive opening of the mouths of the canals, which do not close when moisture is retained in the kidneys, or it comes from cold that has taken possession of the body or liver, and sometimes drinking cold water or strong compression of blood vessels does this due to severe cold. Diabetes also arises as a result of the power of an attractive force, caused by a hot unnatural force, with matter or without matter, which happens most often. At the same time, the kidneys extract from the liver more than they can tolerate, and push out the drawn out moisture and then pull it out of the liver again, and the liver draws moisture from the overlying organs, and thus the continuous drawing of moisture and its rushing outward does not stop. And you know that if any liquid rushes with force, it carries it along with it due to the “demand of emptiness,” and more and more of its quantities follow one after another. Diabetes is not a good disease, sometimes it leads to exhaustion and dryness, as it draws a lot of fluids from the body and prevents it from receiving the proper amount of excess moisture from drinking water. And the signs of diabetes are known to you and are known from what you have read so far.

Treatment. When diabetes occurs, it in most cases arises from fiery heat and therefore it is most cured by cooling and moisturizing with vegetables and fruits and thickly brewed plant juices that are cold and do not expel urine, for example, lettuce and soporific poppy, or by staying on cold and damp air, as well as staying in a cold bath until the patient almost turns blue and becomes numb - this calms thirst; cools the kidneys and strengthens the bladder muscle. It helps against diabetes by smelling camphor, water lily and similar flowers that are cold in nature. Useful means include putting the patient to sleep and distracting him from the feeling of thirst. And measures against thirst are the measures mentioned above, and they should be taken, even if the patient is given an excess amount of water to drink. It is best to give him very cold water, then induce vomiting and repeat this again. Aqueous humor should be diverted from the kidneys by vomiting and heavy sweating. Numbing the lumbar region is also useful, for this lulls the attracting force, and it does not require moisture, nor can it draw it out. Things to avoid include back strain and diuretics. It helps such patients to soften their nature, at least with the help of moderate enemas, since most of their nature is dry; sometimes at the beginning of the disease, they need bloodletting.

From drinking remedies, they benefit from chilled sour doug, the thicker the better, especially from sheep’s milk, baked pumpkin juice, squeezed cucumber juice with flea plantain, sour pomegranate juice, mulberry juice, plum juice and the like; The patient drinks drinks of this kind instead of water as much as he can. Thickly brewed peppermint juice or rose water, and even squeezed rose juice are very helpful for such patients; taken in due time, it benefits them and calms their thirst. Drink it at a time up to two kutuli. The liquid oozing in drops from the sour cow's or sheep's dung helps them and calms their thirst. Among the useful remedies, as they say, is the following: soak three eggs in vinegar for one day and eat them. Here is one of the remedies for such patients, which we tested: Fukka is prepared from barley flour and sour dug whey, strained after the dug is curdled. Fukka is made from it several times, the whey is filtered out and it is again turned into fukka using barley flour. Each time this is repeated, the fukka becomes colder and is drunk chilled.

Medicines for diabetes include cakes made from the pomegranate flower according to the following recipe: akakiyi - two dirhams, roses - three dirhams, pomegranate flower - four dirhams, gum - one dirham and tragacanth - half a dirham, all this is tied and drunk with the mucus of the flea plantain, with cold water or pumpkin juice. They also take bamboo nodules, printed clay and burnt, washed crayfish - one part each, lacquer - one third of a part, soporific poppy seeds and lettuce seeds - one and a half parts each. All this is bound with plantain mucilage and turned into cakes; for once, let's drink as much as you see fit,

Medicinal dressings. The types of dressings used are those prepared from drugs with cooling and occluding properties.

Dressing recipe: take oatmeal and young grape vines, if available, as well as quince and apple flowers, and add to this a little hawthorn, as well as fresh roses, rhubarb, unripe grape juice, “shepherd’s staff” and pomegranate peels. All this is mixed as a mixture for dressings and consumed. And the ointments include the following: take Akakiyi - four dirhams, kundur - two dirhams, squeezed salsify juice, incense and ramik - two dirhams each, Gauls - one dirham. All this is pounded, mixed with the juice of fresh myrtle and smeared with it. Among the strong remedies for this disease, an enema with an arc and cold astringent squeezed juices, mentioned in the description of the dressings, is used; Sometimes enemas are given with fresh milk, pumpkin oil and almond oil.

Nutrition for such patients. The food for them is food that is in no hurry to pass into the bile matter due to its rarefaction, and is also not so rarefied and meager as to turn into steam, which dissipates and dries out the feces, and the dryness of the feces occurs from the diversion of moisture from the intestines to the kidneys. On the contrary, if the food is diluted only so much that the moisture is absorbed without accumulating in copious urine, and it is accompanied by a softening of the nature, then it is excellent: after all, the best among the dishes digested by the sick are such that they are followed by a softening of the nature and a weakening of thirst. Suitable for them, by the way, are stews made from Rum wheat, barley broth, marinades and jellies; to this is sometimes mixed something that expels the substances that most strengthen the nature. Isfidbaji with a large amount of fat and meat of one-year-old kids, fattened chickens, and from the legs - legs of lamb and cow's legs, as well as fresh fish with sour seasoning or without seasoning, if there is no fear of causing thirst, and sheep's milk, which was boiled with water until the water and part of the milk boiled away - all this helps such patients. Of the fruits with cooling and astringent properties, you should beware of diuretics, such as quince.

If the disease arose due to the coldness of nature and, moreover, is accompanied by some feeling of thirst, and we did not have to observe this, then one of the ancient scientists suggests measures against it and says that it is necessary to calm the patient’s thirst and cause him to relax several times with soft enemas, and then give eleven pills of sabur as a laxative, each pill the size of a chickpea grain. After this, the patient is given three days of rest, and then these measures are repeated again. Then the patient is induced to vomit after eating with the help of radishes and the like, and they warm his body and especially his limbs by placing cups and using poultices and fumigations; Sometimes you have to use products that cause redness. Then the patient is allowed to rest for several days, after which physical exercises are prescribed - moderate horse riding and moderate rubbing, especially rubbing of the limbs. He is prescribed a hot bath and given fragrant wine to drink.