الحاوي في الطب (Liber Continens — Part 3)

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For those who have also experienced harm from excess, the dyscrasia of dryness and excessive moisture are the same in the organs. As for the length of the body, what is needed for the correction of the dry temperament is urgent. As for what is needed from the treatment for the in the body al-mahzul emaciated is bi-ghalabat al-yabs by the dominance of dryness, its status is like wood that has dried and desiccated?, not accepting treatment in any way. If dryness settles in the organs and the whole body, it is that the essence of the solid organs dries out. Beneath this dryness are degrees; in one of them, the organs that are merely branches are affected, not the pillars, and the flesh is in the position of trees.

The lowest, greatest, and closest of these to others is that the moisture from which the organs are nourished changes. These moistures are present in all the organs of the body, scattered within them like bile. This moisture does not have a specific name, just as blood does. The treatment of such symptoms that occur due to dryness in the body has another aspect. This aspect strengthens the heat of the blood and the use of excellent foods, drinks, and hot medicines. This course is the most harmful of things to these layers because it hastens the waste and exhaustion of the natural moisture and the organs. For some of them dry out others, and from the passages that introduce food into the stomach and the pushing of its deficiency to the organs close to it. And if this recurs, as for the effort to treat it, then widening what has narrowed from the constriction in the ducts alone, without treating the nearby organs and filling them, is one of the work associated with the parts longitudinally, similar to the right of the rain, its treatment was a treatment for the ignorance that the physicians have forgotten, for they thought that moisturizers and cold are safe.