Treatment of headaches arising from intercourse

Such a headache occurs either due to dryness generated by intercourse, and then its treatment consists of what we have already mentioned in the paragraph on the treatment of dry headaches, after the preliminary use of moisturizers. Or it arises due to overflow in the body, after which copulatory movements follow, combining bodily and mental movements and raising bad vapors. Therefore, a person with congestion in the body, who begins to have a headache after intercourse, first needs to do bloodletting and then induce relief; if necessary, both measures or only one of them are applied. After this, they strengthen the patient’s brain with such strengthening oils as rose oil and myrtle oil, as well as strengthening decoctions in which, for example, roses and myrtle were boiled, and they feed him with something that is quickly digested and gives good chyme. Such people should abstain from copulation, and if this is impossible, then they should not copulate on a lean stomach.