Treatment measures for pneumonia

When treating pneumonia, they follow the same path as for pleurisy, but in this case the medicinal dressings must be stronger and agents that penetrate deeper are introduced into them. In this case, one should strive more to clear the lung by expectoration. Instead of lying down on the side that they want to cleanse with expectoration, they lie down on their back with an inclination in that direction. If the nature of this disease is fixed, patients should be given this drink once every two days.

Copybook. They take the laxative cassia and raisins, peeled from the seeds of each, three istars each, pour four uskurrajs of water into it and cook until the mixture is reduced to half. Then it is removed from the heat and nightshade juice is added to the uskurraj. This is the amount to drink for a strong patient, and half for a weak one. If the patient’s nature is soft and this softness weakens him, then he is given the juice of myrtle, sweet baked quince and sweet pomegranate, boiled until thick.

If the pneumonia belongs to the genus mashara, that is, erysipelas, then its treatment, as we have indicated, is more difficult, and if anything helps, it is a strong extinguishing of the heat with the well-known, very cold squeezed juices of vegetables, herbs and fruits. The patient is given cooling and emollient medicines, for example, squeezed chicory juice and the like. It is also permissible to empty yellow bile using, for example, manna, tamarind, taranjubin and the like. Sometimes with pneumonia you have to bleed if there is overflow.