Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

it must be assisted with those things which purge putrid phlegm, that is,

original: "Yerapigra" (a sacred bitter, a traditional purgative medicine) for they purge putrid phlegm, and malice, and converts a man from a bad complexion to a good one, and makes him acquire good youth. The purgation of this thing is, that vomiting should be taken after the satiety of food, as is said elsewhere. And similarly it must be assisted with those things which consume, such as dyanthos a medicinal preparation of clove flowers, which consumes phlegm, and the malice of the brain, and retards grays, and corroborates sense: And dyatameron a medicinal digestive confection, which comforts digestion and consumes phlegmatic humidities and superfluities in the body wherever they may be: And preserved ginger, which consumes the humidity congealed from fish and fruits: And preserved kebuli myrobalan fruits properly consume and dry up phlegmatic superfluities of the stomach, and comfort it, and clarify the blood, and it is valid for those who are melancholic, and if they are taken every day, they preserve youth and make adolescence return, and retard grayness. The first medicine and the first cure of this thing is the evacuation of phlegmatic humor.