Preparers and Purgers of Bile

Unani Medicines to Purge Bile
Materia Medica in Arabic & Persian, Shirazy, 1793

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See also:
Introduction to Humoral Medicine
Purging the Humours
Preparers and Purgers of Phlegm
Preparers and Purges of Melancholy
Purging Mixed Humors

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Preparers of Bile

Purgatives of Bile

Fruits Apples Lemon Pomegranate Sour Plum Prune Barberry Herbs Chicory Sorrel Plantain Maidenhair Mallow Black Nightshade Roots Borage Chicory Sorrel Asparagus Seeds 4 Cold Seeds Endive Plantain Mallow Poppy Flowers Rose Borage Water Lily Camomile Gums Gum Arabic Camphor Other Sandalwood Red (Armenian) Earth Vinegar Compounds Diamargariton Frigidum Diacydonium w’out Spic Diapenidion w’out Spice

Quince Citron Cherry Jujubes Cassia Fistula Endive Wood Sorrel Purslane Lettuce Violet Fumitory Bugloss Dandelion Couch Grass Marshmallow Barley Lettuce Purslane Quince Violet Bugloss Red Poppy Tragacanth Red Sandalwood Sealed Earth Omphacine Diatragacanthum Frigid. Diatriasanatlum Pulvis Haly

Mild Violet juice, syrup Pomegranate juice Raisins Cucumber seed Peach tree flowers Cassia Fistula Fumitory Wormwood Rhubarb Manna Strong Scammony prepared Compounds Oxymel Electuary of Rose juice Syrup of Chicory and     Rhubarb Diaprunis Catholicum Pills of Aloephanginae

Rose juice, syrup, honey Prune Jujube Pumpkin seed Psyllium Tamarind Hops Yellow Myrobalan Aloe Whey Colocynth Syrup of Peach flowers Syrup of Rose Solutive Electuary of Psyllium Hiera Picra Pills of Aloes Golden Pills

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Sample Preparatives for Bile Humor

1. Borage    Rose    Violet 2. Chicory    Endive    Couch Grass

3. Chicory    Maidenhair    Cassia Fistula 4. Syrup of Violet (simp)    Syrup of Endive (simp)    1 oz. each    Infusion of Senna             4 oz

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Primary Compounds for Purging Bile Humor

1. Infusion Purging Bile     Rhubarb                         2 drams     Yellow Myrobalans      1 dram        Cinnamon                      ½ drams 2. Pills to Purge Bile (Mesue)     Rhubarb     Yellow Myrobalan       4 drams     Aloes washed              6 drams     Cinnamon     Camphor     Red Rose     Red Sandalwood     Yellow Sandalwood    1 scruple Form Pills. Dose: 1 dram

3. Pills of Agrimony (Mesue) 4. Pills of Rhubarb (Mesue) 5. Pills of Three Solutives (Mesue)     Rhubarb     Agaric     Aloe                               equal parts Form Pills with Syrup of Rose Solutive.