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Examples of medical remedies
Examples of remedies in the Ebers Papyrus include:


 * Birth control: "To prevent conception, smear a paste of dates, acacia, and honey to wool and apply as a pessary."
 * Diabetes mellitus: "Drink a mixture including elderberry, asit plant fibres, milk, beer-swill, cucumber flowers, and green dates." It is not known what "asit" is.
 * Guinea-worm disease: "Wrap the emerging end of the worm around a stick and slowly pull it out." 3,500 years later, this remains the standard treatment.

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 * Bleary eyes: Combine the following ingriedients into a paste to apply to the bleary eyed patient. "Myrrh, Onions, Verdigris, and Cyperus-from-the-North, with Antilope-dung, Clear Oil, and Entrails-of-the-qadit-animal. This could be painted on with a Vulture's feather." Direct quote fix later
 * To drive Blood from the eyes: create two substances one from powedered fruit of the donpalm and milk of a woman who has borne a son. The other Cow's Milk. Then in the morning bathe both eyes from the first mixture then wash the eyes with the Cow's milk four times for six days.
 * Xanthelasma: Use a combination of Red lead, Goose Grease, and Ginger to coat the eyes with.
 * Pterygium: apply a mixture of red lead, powdered wood from arabia, Iron from Apollonopolis parvis, Calamine, Egg of an ostrich, Saltpetre from  upper egypt, Sulphur, and honey to the eyes.
 * Trichiasis: Combine Myrrh, Lizard's blood, Bat's Blood and then tear out the Hairs and Put thereon in order to make him well. Then use a mixture of Incense ground in lizard's dung, Cow's blood, Ass's Blood, Pig's blood, Dog's blood, Stag's blood, Collyrium, and Incense to prevent the hair from growing back into the eye after being pulled out.
 * Blindness : Use two eyes of a pig with the water removed from them, True Collyrium, Red Lead, and Wild Honey to create a powder and inject it into the ear. while mixing you must repeat "I HAVE BROUGHT THIS THING AND PUT IT IN ITS PLACE. THE CROCODILE IS WEAK AND POWER- LESS. (Twice)."(104) Direct quote fix later