Medicines crushing stones

As for stone-crushing medicines, these are most of the bitter medicines, which are not so significantly hot as to aggravate the cause of the stones; the stronger their tearing property and the less their heat, the better. In this case, it is necessary that the medicines for the bladder be hotter than for the kidneys. There are also medicines of another kind, the action of which is not attributed to heat or cold; they do what they do because of their special properties. Among the stone-crushing medicines, there are those that are not so overly strong, and they tend to crush only small stones, and there are those whose strength is great in relation to kidney stones, but they are little or completely powerless in relation to stones in the bladder ; such, for example, is the “Jewish stone”. Some of them are strong in relation to the kidneys and sometimes act on stones in the bladder, and there are those whose strength is great in relation to both stones at once. This is the meat of a sparrow called itraguliditus, as well as the ashes of scorpions. When making complex medicines from stone medicines, you should also combine with them various medicines that promote their action; some of them must strongly drive urine and excrete thick urine in order to remove and crumble loose stones, while others somewhat weaken the movement of other drugs and force them to linger in one place, so that they, having lingered, carry out their effect completely. These are medicines that do not quickly pass into the body due to their oiliness and viscosity and at the same time contribute to the ripening of juices, such as polypodium gum. But among them there are also medicines that quickly go away on their own and carry out other medicines - such as, for example, pepper and the like, as well as medicines that strengthen an organ that is exposed to various influences when juices move through it; These are medicines with the properties of badzahra, as well as sumbul, Ceylon cinnamon and others. Some medicines, for example, thickly brewed fruit juices, have a slight astringent property that preserves the strength of the diseased organ. Sometimes all such medications are mixed with substances that soothe pain due to their special properties, or cause numbness. And so, when we combine the drugs in this way, the natural force disposes of them and uses the anti-stone drugs near the stone, destroying the action of the diuretic and conductive substances when they reach the anti-stone drugs, and it first uses these diuretics to bring the anti-stone drugs to the place where it is located. stone. And then she uses arresting and stopping substances in this place in order to delay and stop the anti-stone medicine so that it can exert its effect without being moved and diuretics from the place where he needs to stay for some time to fulfill his purpose. To do this, the using force deprives such substances of the ability to act, although before that she used conductive drugs to speed up the delivery of anti-stone drugs to the stone before they were influenced by the nature that weakens the force with which they act on the stone. When the crushing and stone-breaking substances are used and carry out their action, the using force destroys the ability of the retaining drugs and again brings into action the diuretics and conductors.

If the pain intensifies very much, then substances that cause numbness are used, according to the well-known law of drug combinations. Sometimes many of the properties we mentioned are combined in one simple medicine.

Now let’s list the medications that crush the stone and remove it. These are, for example, bush root, blackberry root, bdellium, ratba root, laurel root bark, black chickpeas, and especially its infusion, marshmallow seed, crucian carp fruit, hawthorn gum - hawthorn also has such a power, tribulus - their root works perfectly against this, henna root, sea onion, vinegar from it, sikanjubin from it, mountain parsley, pulegium mint, wormwood, Ceylon cinnamon, wild cucumber root, balsam tree wood, balsam tree grains, balsam oil - also a very strong remedy, wild seeds cucumber, artichoke, infusion of its root, centipede, adiantum - two dirhams of it in the juice of radish or mountain parsley, wheatgrass root, sadaj seeds, "shepherd's staff", especially Rum, wild cumin, cinquefoil root and its infusion, common dubrovnik, Dubrovnik polyum, asparagus root, Egyptian sati seeds, laurel root bark, radish seeds, Dubrovnik garlic, the ends of the branches of the steppe, wild rue, as well as Armenian bavrak - take it for five dirhams, mix it with honey and give it to drink in radish juice for three days , and Chernobyl wormwood in the amount of one misqal in warm water.

Some doctors say that if you take seventy peppercorns, finely grind them, make seven cakes out of them and give them to drink one cake a day, the patient will pass a stone in the urine; Pistachios also have kidney stone breaking power. Strong medicines for the kidneys include “Jewish stone”, dictamn and common dubrovnik, and strong medicines in general are, by the way, scorpion ash and scorpion oil, that is, oil in which scorpions are exposed to the sun, used as an ointment or by injecting with a syringe for a stone in the bladder. As for scorpion ashes, the best way to prepare it is this: coat a thick jar with “clay of wisdom,” put scorpions in it and leave it in a hot baking oven overnight or for a shorter time, without being particularly zealous when burning it, and take it out in the morning. Glass in this case is better than baked clay, which absorbs and takes away the power of the ash. The ash of a slaughtered hare, obtained in this way, is also a powerful remedy; They drink it for two dirhams at a reception, and its infusion strongly dissolves stones. Fireflies with their heads and limbs removed have the same effect if you dry them in the sun in a copper vessel, or dried worms, or glass turned into dust by crushing, or glass ash. It is best to heat the glass on an iron spoon in the form of a strainer, then put it in an infusion of ragwort, where the burnt part of the glass will fall off, and then heat the rest again until all the glass turns into powder, after which the powder is ground into the finest dust. It is sometimes given to drink one mithqal in twelve mithqals of hot water, and the best glass for this is white, transparent.

One of the very powerful remedies is the pebbles found in a sponge, as well as the dried blood of a goat; The best blood is that which is taken at the time when the grapes begin to color. Then look for new pots and boil water in them until the ashiness and salinity characteristic of new boilers disappears; if the pots are made of stone, then this is better. Then slaughter a four-year-old goat over the pots and let its first and last blood flow onto the side, taking only the middle one. Leave the blood until it hardens, then cut it into small pieces and make cakes from them, put them on a sieve or on a clean rag and place them in the sun in the open air, covering them with a piece of silk to protect them from dust. Leave these cakes in a place where moisture does not penetrate at all, and then store them, and when you want to give them to the sick person, give them to drink in a spoon of sweet wine at a time when the pain has calmed down, or give them in the juice of mountain parsley and you will see something amazing . Another powerful remedy is the ash of the shells of chicken eggs, taken after they open and the chickens come out. Another remedy with great power, the best of all, is the sparrow, called tiraguliditus in Greek. This is a sparrow like a bullfinch, smaller than all other sparrows except the “royal sparrow”. Its body color is between ashen, yellow and green, it has golden feathers on its wings, and white specks on its body. It appears most often in winter on saline lands and under walls; in flight it does not have a large swing; on the contrary, it flies a little and sits down, and all the time whistles and moves its tail. It is eaten raw as it is, and this is best, but it is also eaten boiled and fried, pickled and dried. Sometimes it is burned in a bread oven, not so hot that the burning overcomes and destroys the healing power, and it is placed in the oven in a glass jar in the same way as was said regarding scorpions and other things. And sometimes it is burned in a stone pot or saucepan, which is tied at the top, and when it goes from frying to some burning, the bird is taken out. Salted and fried it is seasoned with pepper, sadaj and similar substances, and dried and burnt it is consumed warm with pure wine, honey, water sweetened with honey or handikun. Each of the medications mentioned above is also taken. Some claim that this bird is a "bush sparrow", there is also a bird called in Frankish safaragun; I don’t know whether it’s the same bird or another, but they say that if you dry its intestines and take them little by little, they drive stones out of every place. Some doctors say it is as if the stone itself expels the stone.

Pigeon feces and rooster feces are also useful. Hunayn and al-Kindi claim that if you give it to an adult to drink two dirhams, and a small one half a dirham with the same amount of candy sugar, it will drive away every stone. Sometimes pepper and salt are added to it, especially in dictamn broth. Dried dung beetles also expel stones; Some say that fumigating the area under the penis with the smoke of hedgehog needles removes stones with urine, but this is one of the statements that I do not consider to be true.

As for the drugs that are mixed with these drugs so that they pass better, such are, for example, pepper, pulegic mint, Chinese cinnamon; they also impart force to move the stone from its place. And the medicines added to forcefully drive urine and remove thick excesses are well-known seeds, especially the seeds of mountain plants, as well as wild carrots, wild dill roots, valerian, hoofed grass, calamus, azhgon, kachim, tortuous gill, twig seeds, fragrant rush, wild caraway; some people sometimes dared to eat Spanish flies. All these drugs, while having strong diuretic properties, also have an effect on the stone.

Substances that are mixed in for the sake of some retention of drugs are, for example, gums, which sometimes themselves act on the stone, such as polypodium gum and hazelnut gum. Medicines that soothe pain are, for example, flaxseed and its mucilage, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and marshmallow seeds. These substances inhibit anti-stone medications and are suitable for treating the kidney body. You know the drugs that cause numbness; As for strengthening medicines, these are bahman, zurunbad, dry iris, twig seeds, as well as tribulus seeds or, for example, roses, pomegranate flowers, aromatic rush, sandalwood.