Regime at different times of the year and about improving the health of the air

At the beginning of spring, you should try to do bloodletting and cleansing with laxatives within the limits of necessity and habit. In particular, you need to induce vomiting. One must abstain from all kinds of meat and drinks that are very hot and moist. You should lighten your diet and engage in moderate, but stronger than summer, physical exercise. You don’t need to eat until your stomach is full, but take food in small portions. You should consume quenching drinks and syrups. One must abstain from all kinds of intoxicating, bitter, spicy and salty things.

As for summer, then you need to reduce food, drinks and exercise. You need to make it mandatory for yourself to rest, rest and use quenchers. Induce vomiting in those for whom it is possible. You need to be in the shade and sheltered places.

And in the fall, especially in the fall with variable weather, the best regime should be established. One must abstain from all kinds of drying agents, from sexual intercourse, from drinking cold water, from dousing the head, from sleeping in a cold place. You should also not sleep with a full stomach. The midday heat and morning cold should be avoided. At night and in the morning you need to protect your head from the cold so that the cold that causes goose bumps does not touch it. In autumn, you should avoid autumn fruits and their excessive consumption. Do not swim in the bathhouse except in warm water.

When day and night become equal, you need to empty your body so that excess does not linger in the winter. At the same time, there are also bodies in which in the fall it is better not to excite the juices, not to set them in motion, but, on the contrary, to leave them alone. In autumn, it is forbidden to induce vomiting, because it entails fever.

As for wine, you should not drink too much of it, diluting it with plenty of water.

Know that the abundance of rain in autumn protects against the harmful effects of the latter.

As for winter, then you should be more tired and not constrain yourself in food, however, if the winter is “southern”, then in this case it is necessary to increase exercise and reduce food. It is necessary that the wheat for bread used in winter be stronger and denser than the wheat for summer bread. Accordingly, you need to select meat, roast, etc. for both seasons.

From greens you need to eat cabbage, beets and celery, quinoa, pigweed, purslane and chicory.

In winter, rarely do any healthy people get sick. If one falls ill, then one must hurry with treatment and empty the body when the disease requires it, for in winter illness does not occur except for a serious reason, especially if the illness is hot. In winter they get sick a little, because the innate warmth, which is the governing one, is greatly enhanced in winter due to the fact that it is not dissipated and accumulates due to retention. Thus all natural forces perform their functions well. Hippocrates approved cleansing the intestines in winter, but not bloodletting, and did not approve of vomiting caused by any means, which he considered correct to induce in the summer, because the juices rise in the summer and tend to settle in the winter. This is what you need to be guided by.

As for the spoiled and contaminated air, when encountering it, you need to keep your body dry and moderate the air in your home with the help of things that are cooling and moisturizing, which is extremely necessary at sea, or warming. You need to do the opposite of what caused the air damage. In this case, various fragrant substances are useful, especially if they are used that are opposite in nature to nature.

During pestilence, it is necessary to reduce the need to inhale large quantities of air, which is achieved by providing the patient with peace and rest.

Most air damage comes from the ground, in which case you need to sit on a sarir and choose a place to live in a very high place, blown by the wind. Often the air begins to deteriorate on its own due to the movement of neighboring spoiled air into it or due to some heavenly reason, the essence of which is hidden from people.

In these cases, you need to seek refuge in dungeons, in houses surrounded by a fence on all sides, and in home storerooms.

As for the incense that heals the rottenness of the air, they are tubers of satiety, incense, myrtle, rose and sandalwood.

Drinking vinegar during a pestilence protects against disaster. In the Book of Particular Diseases we will fully mention everything that needs to be said on this subject.