Regime of bodies prone to disease

They are prone to diseases: either due to the overcrowding of the body, in which case the quantity of juices must be balanced, or due to the presence of raw juices in them, in which case the quality of the juices must be balanced.

It is necessary to choose food for them that would have average nutritional value, neither small nor large.

Balancing the amount of juices is achieved by balancing the amount of food or increasing physical exercise and massage before the bath, if they are accustomed to this, and if this is unusual for them, then reducing them^, and also by dividing food into portions, for you should not feed until you are completely full at one time.

If their body sweats easily and they are used to it, then from time to time they need to induce sweat with diaphoretics. And if postponing food intake does not cause a rush of bile into the stomach, then you need to postpone taking it until after the bath, and if not, then take it before the bath. If there are no obstacles, then the most suitable time for eating is the fourth hour after noon. If a rush of bile into the stomach, as we said, requires eating before the bath and then, as a result, signs of blockages in the liver are felt, then they need to be treated with remedies appropriate to their nature that open the blockages, as we mentioned above. If these remedies cause any harm to the patient, then it must be corrected by walking.

If poverty spoils in the stomach, but goes down on its own, then this is wonderful. Otherwise, lower it with the help of kammuni and figs mixed with safflower, the properties of which are mentioned.

Paragraph four. About how to make a skinny person look fat. The most powerful cause of thinness, as we will describe it, is dryness of nature and mesentery, as well as dryness of the air. If the mesentery is dry, it will not take food.

Dryness and thinness should be treated either by rough or soft rubbing until the skin turns red before bathing. Then they do a hard rubbing, after which they smear the body with resin. Then they do moderate physical exercise, quickly take a bath and then dry the body with a dry towel and lubricate it with a small amount of oil. Then take the appropriate food. If age, time and habits allow, douse with cold water.

The rubbing that precedes the coating with resin stops before the body of the exhausted person begins to swell. All this is close to what we said regarding the enlargement of a separate organ. The completion of the word on this issue is found in the section on cosmetics, from Book Four.

To do this, the following measures are used: speed up the descent of food from the stomach and intestines so that the thinnest veins cannot completely suck out the food, eat food with a large volume but little nutritional value, constant bathing in the bath before meals, rapid physical exercise, lubrication with oils that have absorbable properties , and from medicinal porridges they use small atriful, medicine from lakka and teryak; They also give vinegar and myrrh to drink on an empty stomach. We will fully mention this in the section on cosmetics.