Muntakhab al-tawarikh 4.2.7

4.2.7

Its cure is a gentle course of treatment for the dropsy. Means must be taken at first to secrete a minimum of excrementitious products and drinking much water must be forbidden, and the patient directed to bathe in borax and alum water, or in sea water, as bathing in fresh water is harmful. Drinking wormwood and dinarí and nardí is beneficial. The food must be appetising and strengthening to the liver, as for instance partridges, Cantharides flavoured with cloves and cinnamon and mastic and saffron are beneficial. The vomiting must be treated with aperients, when it will cease, but if more energetic treatment be required we may add agaricum and rhubarb which do no harm in this disease." (Al Múghni fi Sharhi Mújaz by Sadídi.)