Avicenna: On Treating the Respiratory Organs and the Chest

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Avicenna prescribes drugs for the respiratory organs and the chest. The list of just some of the properties of healing or harmful drugs for the respiratory organs and the chest appears on the front cover: Causing: loss of the voice; roughness in the voice; Cleansing wounds of the diaphragm; Clearing the voice; Harming the respiratory organs; Increasing the milk in the breasts; Producing roughness in the chest; Removing: pus; roughness from the chest; roughness of the voice; blood coagulated in the lungs; Rendering the voice clearer; Sharpening the intellect; Strengthening: the heart; the respiratory organs;  angina; asthma; breathing afflictions; brief loss of consciousness (syncope); chronic cough; cold or hot abnormal mixture of the four humors (dyscrasia) of the heart;  cold or hot palpitations; coughing up blood (hemoptysis); diaphragmatic pain; difficulty or painful breathing (orthopnea); diphtheria (suffocation); dry coughs; inflammation of the breasts (mastitis); inflammation of the membrane that surrounds and protects the lungs (pleurisy); inflammation of the uvula (uvulitis); pneumonia; rib pain; spitting of pus (pyoptysis); tonsillitis; wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body (pithisis)