Pills to Aggregate
Pilulae Aggregative

Tradition:

Western / Unani

Source / Author:

Mesue

Herb Name Yellow Myrobalan Rhubarb Agrimony juice thickened Wormwood jucie thickened Scammony prepared Chebulic Myrobalan Black Myrobalan Agaric Colocynth Polypody Turbith Aloe Mastic Rose Rock Salt Dodder Aniseed Ginger

Latin Terminalia chebula (yellow) Rheum palmatum Agrimonia eupatoria Artemisia absinthum Convovulus scammonia Terminalia chebula Terminalia chebula (black) Fomitopsis officinalis Citrullus colocynthus Polypodium vulgare Operculina turpethum Aloe spp. Pistacia lentiscus Rosa gallica Sal Gem Cuscuta europea Pimpinella anisum Zingiber officinalis Amount 4 drams ea. 2 drams ea. 5 drams 2 drams ea. 6 drams ea. 1 dram ea.

Preparation:

Powder and form Pills with Electuary of Rose.

Function:

Purge Mixed Humors, Opens Obstructions

Use:

1. Complex and Chronic Fever
2. Chronic and Obstinate diseases from Mixed Humors (especially Phlegm and Bile, Damp–Heat)
3. Melancholy diseases
4. Opens obstruction of the Liver and Spleen
5. Chronic Liver disease

Dose:

1–2 scruples

Cautions:

None noted

Modifications:

Wirtzung (1598) said ‘These Pills be very good in all ligering Agues, in all diseases of the head, of the stomach, and of the Liver, they expel Cholera [Bile], and all slimy matter’.

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