Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

every hour, with an emetic taken after the fullness of a meal, or once in every month. And clysters enemas purging such humor; and such saturation ought to be done when appetite is absent, and this in the morning, and with things sharp and contrary to the stomach, such as onion and cheese, for food that is taken greedily is incorporated and is not easily emitted through vomiting. And the proper method for vomiting is that the preparation of white helleborus hellebore be prepared: one drachm in four ounces of wine for a night, and in the morning it should be strained and offered.
The clyster, however, is that one should take the leaves of mercury, danewort, and elder, in equal parts, and let them boil a little, and it should be strained, and injected as a clyster, and this is a great secret.

And these two kinds of medicines are called proper for this. However, it is not to be neglected when someone is purged through the lower parts with something that purges phlegm and melancholy, for melancholy renders a man sad, and sadness leads to old age. And the proper medicine for this is that which black helleborus hellebore prepared does, and I have used it myself in my life, of the property of which it is that it changes a man from a bad complexion to a good, youthful one, and in the preparation is the whole secret, which the wise have concealed.