Set on edge

A sore throat is some numbness that covers a tooth due to exposure to something irritating; it could be something astringent or something tart. A sore throat sometimes occurs from something falling on the tooth, penetrating from the outside, or causing vomiting, and sometimes from something rising to the teeth from the stomach, if there is sour juice there. Sometimes the setback follows the mental image when you see someone gnawing something very sour with gusto.

Treatment. Chewing purslane, or purslane seeds, crushed and moistened with water, as well as Nabatean gum, or almonds, or nutmegs, and especially coconuts, is very helpful for this. Also useful are hazelnuts or oil of unripe olives in the form of grating or olive oil sludge condensed in a copper vessel in the sun or over a fire like honey. Either they rinse their mouths with donkey’s milk, or with warm oil, or they consume kir from wine jars, or laurel berries, or long aristolochia, or asafoetida, or the milky juice of yattu, or sea onions. Salt, since it is the opposite of acid, is very helpful for sore throats.