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 * Maturation is described in "Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing  and  Allied Health" as:

(mach"u-ra'shun)1. The stage or process of attaining maximal development;attainment of maximal intellectual and emotional development. In biology, a process of cell division during which the number of chromosomes in the germ cell is reduced to one half the number characteristic of the species.2. The formation of pus.

° "circumscribed" ser"kum-skribd) bounded or limited;confined to a limited space.

There are quite a few classifications for tumours in this Dictionary.
I feel that it would be safe to say that when there is a limited-size boil or abscess having come to a pus filled head, that the half fig remedy is for drawing the boil.
Since these are agonizing and not to be fooled around with, keep some Black Mission Figs in your household for such an emergency, boil them on medium heat for five minutes, and use while as warm as possible if you have no immediate means which will relieve you through actual physicians' care.
Heat, even a face cloth or cottonball soaked in boiling water and applied frequently can easily draw boils and some cysts, even killing the infection.

I had a long witch cyst on my chin once, and could never rid myself of the bitchen blemish. A Doctor told me to use hot water, and I got rid of it in three days, never to return.So a fig might make a benign, useful poultice.

Actually, I boil them until resized and then soak them over their little heads in Brandy.Half a brandied hot fig might not be a bad idea, either. I prefer them with creme custard!

 

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Contra-Indications

Contra-Indications: Actually, there are no hazards.

 

Fig Properties

Names	History	Constituents	Uses
fig	Figs were eaten by the	grape (invert) sugar	laxative(mild)from
L moraceae	ancient Hebrews,	gum	saccharine juice
N. O. Urticaceae	Greeks and Romans,	sucrose	nutritive
Attic Figs	and became a symbol	dextrose is 50%	constipation
Sycamore Fig	of peace and plenty	of the Fig	ancient poultice for
Ficus sycamorous	according to the		boils and ulcers
	Scriptures.The best figs		used with
	flourished in Caria,in		purgatives
	Asia Minor, hence the		like Senna
	name.Cultivation in		jams
	Cental Europe was		food
	instrumented by .		coffee flavouring
	Charlemagne in the		home made wines
	ninth century.they grow		milky fluid of fresh
	wild in most		stalk used for wart -
	Mediterranean		removal
	countries.Fig is an		stems and leaves used "
	official plant in the		to raise blisters
	BritishPharmacopaeia.		Elixir of Figs
	Pliny: noted figs were a		Sweet Essence of Figs
	great percentage of		Compound Syrup of Figs(of rhubarb and
	slaves' diet.  A fig is
	actually a fruit and a		roasted childrens' " Syrup of Figs"also"Aromatic Syrup of Figs   "
	flower, being a hollow bag filled with flowerswhich, being held within come to ripen as seeds.These are considered to be one-seeded fruits.Their position within is called"inflorescence". Pliny called Fig wine Sycites.		figs, compound spirit of orange, and Senna) demulcent for catarrh and split,used as emolient poultices for gumboils,dental abscesses and "other circumscribed ºmaturating* tumours×"

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