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the regimen of diet should be established primarily as a moistening one, which approaches the analeptic restorative/nutritious.

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Therefore, an environment should be chosen that leans toward the humid and somewhat toward the cold. Sleep should be longer than usual. Rest should be enjoined, exercise avoided, and immoderate passions of the mind should be clearly avoided, such as sadness, fear, and so on. The use of sweet-water baths should be frequent, and moister, richer food and drink should be administered.

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But if a bilious humor has become redundant with a hot intemperance of the body, it is appropriate to purge it with suitable medicines, such as mel aëreum honey dew, cassia fistula purging cassia, rhubarb, etc.

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Once the body has been purged, cupping vessels are to be applied to the lower parts, frictions and ligatures are to be used, and the remaining medicines that can alter the blood, whether taken internally or applied externally, should be administered.

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If the menses are retained due to a cold intemperance of the body, we shall use warmer foods and medicines, and we shall mandate more vigorous exercises and labor.

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Humors of a cold intemperance, which are thick, cold, and viscous and cause obstructions—a case that is most frequent among us—must be attenuated and cut until all obstruction has been dissolved.

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Therefore, those humors should first be prepared with an attenuating diet...