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regimen, and also with attenuating and cutting medicines, such as honey of roses, syrup of five and two roots, hyssop, calamus, pennyroyal, oregano, etc.

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Once the humors have been concocted and prepared, a purging medicine should be administered consisting of hiera a sacred purgative mixture, agaric, diaphoenicon a date-based purgative, bitter pills, sagapenum a type of gum resin, aggregative pills for collecting humors, etc., and the remaining humors that persist are to be drawn out. The same should be done, keeping the proportion, when black bile is redundant.

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With all these things administered in due order, one must descend to the tōn emmēnōn agōgē leading forth of the menses, which both separate the excrementitious blood and lead the secreted blood to the uterus, and open and relax its obstructed or constricted veins.

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Such things are those which, along with bitterness and moderate cleansing, have acquired some acrimony and, by a peculiar analogy of qualities, are pleasing to the uterus; they are carried to it and together with themselves draw down that more impure blood.

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These menstruation-inducing medicines are distinguished from one another by the reason of a greater or lesser faculty of attenuating, cutting, cleansing, and opening. For some are milder, some are more vehement, and finally some are very powerful.

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The most powerful ones are twofold: either by manifest and already recited powers, such as castoreum, euphorbium, anacardium, pepper, etc., or...