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[JoJo_Jost]

If someone wanted to write: poxleber causes pain, there really should be a verb 'cause' in there.

The German word “peinigen” means “to torment” and is a verb that implies that someone/something is tormenting. 
However, I did not mean that it is a complete sentence with a subject, predicate, and object, but rather a list in the form of alliteration. In other words: If you have pox liver, then agonizing pain and flatulence will follow.

This works particularly well in German because verbal nouns or infinitives are read as process markers. The meaning arises not syntactically, but temporally: step A -> step B -> step C.
The noun sets the state, the verbs unfold it processually.