Milk curdles in the breast due to drying heat, and sometimes it curdles due to coldness causing stagnation; from what has been said above, you know the signs of each of these conditions. Remedies to prevent curdling include lubricating the breasts with wax in some hot oil, for example, wallflower oil, peppermint oil and similar oils, as well as lubricating them with crushed mint turned into dough. During hot curdling, they are lubricated with wax ointment with cold mucus and cold oils; peeled wax, fresh coriander and purslane are very helpful in this case in the form of a medicinal dressing.
Medicines that dissolve hot curdling include wine vinegar diluted with rose oil, both of which are heated and spread on the chest, or crushed nightshade leaves in the form of a medicinal dressing, as well as bladder cherry leaves, nightshade leaves and cabbage leaves or the squeezed juice of these plants, especially if you mix myrrh and saffron into them. Wine vinegar with violet oil and a small amount of fenugreek also helps with its drying effect; an ointment is prepared from all this. Means that dissolve cold curdling include constant watering. This also helps by taking fennel in dry form and consuming fennel and dill seeds, as well as all medicines that enhance milk secretion, in which medicinal chamomile, dill, thyme, fenugreek, yarrow and beaver stream were boiled. Oils that help include iris oil, narcissus oil or bush oil. Here is one of the good balanced medicines: take a handful of white bread, barley flour, indau sativa, fenugreek, marshmallow and crushed flaxseed, each of this, and prepare a medicinal bandage. A useful remedy for a tumor after milk has curdled in the breast is to place a sponge soaked in warm water with vinegar on the tumor, or dates and bread bound with water and vinegar; mint with vinegar and wine is also a good remedy, as is crushed marcasite with rose oil and egg white.
Opens blockages in the breast from milk, among other things, by smearing it with earthworms or myrrh with an infusion of pulegium mint, anise, chickpea flour, laurel leaves, celery seeds, Nabatean cumin and cardamom with an infusion of “shepherd’s staff”; Beetroot juice, wheat, nigella and incense with ox bile also work. Or they take storax “honey,” mix it with violet oil and rub it on the chest; this resolves curdling and swelling; or sip cabbage juice, it helps in such cases.