Commentary for Shabbat 218:8

ושותין אבוברואה: מאי אבוברואה חומטריא מאי חומטריא חוטרא יחידאה למאי עבדי לה לגילויא ואי לא ליתי חמשא כלילי וחמשא כוסתא דשיכרא ונישלוקינהו בהדי הדדי עד דקיימא אאנפקא ונישתי

let him swallow white cress. If not, let him fast, then bring fat meat and cast it on the coals, suck out a thick piece and drink vinegar. But others say, not vinegar, because it affects the liver. If not, let him procure the scrapings of a thorn bush which was scraped from top to bottom but not from below and upward, lest [the worms] issue through his mouth, and boil them in strong liquor<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mead, or beer. ');">¹⁹</span> at twilight.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or the text may mean, 'in a neighbour's house', so that the sufferer himself should not smell it, lest the smell affect him. ');">²⁰</span> On the morrow let him stop up his orifices<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either his nostrils, so as not to smell it, lest the smell nostrils and ears, that the strength of the potion should not pass out of his body. ');">²¹</span>

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