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LI.
Therefore, warm foods must be provided: dark, aromatic, and old wine. Stronger exercises and labors are to be prescribed, and other things that can warm the body are to be applied, such as decoctions and fomentations of pennyroyal, thyme, calamint, southernwood, dittany, iris root, cassia, calamus, asarabacca, and the like.
LII.
Cold, thick, viscous, and sluggish humors inducing obstruction (which is the most frequent case among us) are to be prepared by a thinning diet and incisive medicines, so that they become easier to expel, such as honey of roses, syrup of the five roots, and of hyssop, calamint, pennyroyal, origanum, etc.
LIII.
Once cooked and prepared, the humors are to be drawn out by purging medicines, from hiera a purgative medicine, agaric, diaphenicon, bitter pills, sagapenum, aggregative, benedicta, or similar agents.
LIIII.
After purging, women are to be exercised, especially by walking and by friction of the lower parts. Fomentations and baths of chamomile, mugwort, horsemint, and the like are also to be applied.
LV.
After the use of the bath, let an inunction be made from lily oil, rue oil, and similar oils mentioned above. And medicines should be provided to call forth the retained menses, leading the excrementitious blood to the uterus and opening its veins, so that they may exert their powers more effectively.