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The pharmacy of Al-Andalus (Final)


With these drugs ended the series on the pharmacy of Al-Andalus. The variety and diversity of products makes me think about the scientific aspect of the caliphate. With few resources for the study and analysis the average age of the doctors based their traditional knowledge in sensory analysis, visual and olfactory, and the study of classic books collecting Greek and Roman wisdom.

The state has given financial support to doctors, taking medicine is very important in the development of Arab society, proud entoces by its splendor and outside the neighboring society that made the nascent Christian kingdoms. The magnificent library in Cordoba reflected the interest in science and popular culture of the caliphate. Good medicine bienhestar was synonymous with popularity translated into the Caliphate system and its consecration.


Basbüsa.Macis (bark Rosales, red or pink, in fornia network that covers the nutmeg). It
diarrhea and chronic ulcers of the intestines in its final stage. He begins to marinate with the drugs used against spitting up blood. It is useful against incontinence of urine algid nature, whether used alone as if it is done with other substances. In the form of plaster is the best topic, especially incontinence of urine. Therefore, it is a drug that everything he does hold urine. As a poultice is better than drinking, and must be placed above the navel.

Violeta.Violaodorata
The violet flower cleans the stomach and bile fluids around. If persistent bile laxamientos accompanied by burning, is taken from the flower spray the amount of 4 adarmes for two or three days, this brings down the rest of this humor short hot and diarrhea. One symptom of this variety of laxamiento is astringent drugs harm the patient and increase in bad shape. It is extremely useful for pain in the lower parts, its cracks and tumor used as a poultice, either alone or mixed with other similar drugs. It should be against the burning of the bladder.

Beleño.Hyoscyamusniger
The leaves and seeds of all species impede the flow of fluids in the organs affected by tumors hot if placed on them when they are at a nascent stage, although this should not continue much action, as hardening humor. If your leaves are mixed with barley flour and incense and used as a poultice, soothing the pain caused by bruises and dislocations. When the leaves are roasted and ground with grease or egg yolk, soothe the pains that occur in the lowlands.

Altramuz.Lupinusalbus
Cooked with vinegar and used as a poultice, calms the height of joint pains, especially those who are accompanied by inflammation. Solve the phlegmatic and scrofula tumors displayed on the necks of children. Therefore, also voids esfervescencia phlegmatic, particularly when mixed with seawater.

Turbitblanco.Globulariaalypum
should be used which is white and rubbery at both ends, free of worms and have the exact midpoint of thickness and thinness. The plant does not possess these characteristics is not good. The worst is that which is eaten, it hurts my stomach, increases thirst and no purge. In relation to what is good, actually do to evacuate the viscous mucus, clean the stomach and layers. It should be against the pain of the joints and excreta produced by viscous mucus. Evacuates the humor produced in all such situations. Clean drinking matrices as well as enema, opening his obstruction, and is useful against all pains that occur when approaching the date of the rule. It should be against all the backaches, the brain purified viscous phlegm, it is useful against hemiplegia and epilepsy and, therefore, it is against the colds and coughs caused by the flow of fluids. It is also useful against coughs caused by moods that are housed in the pit of the stomach and against the symptoms, not the lady until you throw up food or fluids viscous. If mixed with myrobalan of Kabul, is a very useful drug for epilepsy.

Sources:
* KITÁBAL-TAíR1BATAYN OF IBN AL Sufyan NDALUSI BAA and translated by Ana M. Gonzalez out
* History of al-Andalus (Kitab al-iktifā) of Muhammad Ibn Idhārī, Francisco Fernández y González
* Muslim Spain: According to Islamic and medieval Christian writers, Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz history

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