About protection from heat, especially when traveling, and about the behavior of one who travels in hot weather

If travelers do not take action, then eventually it comes to the point that they weaken and their strength disappears so much that they cannot move, and they are overcome by thirst. The sun often damages their brain. Therefore, they should try to protect their heads well from the sun. The traveler should also protect his chest from the sun and lubricate it with such means as plantain seed mucus and condensed purslane juice.

Travelers in hot weather often need to take certain things before setting out, such as barley, fruit drinks, etc., because when they travel with an empty stomach, the dissolution of the substances relaxes them too much if there is no replacement at the time these substances therefore they should eat some of the things we have mentioned and then wait a little so that the food comes down from the stomach and is not churned.

Travelers should have rose and violet oil with them on the road, with which they lubricate the spine from time to time.

Many of those to whom some misfortune happens while traveling in hot weather come to their senses by bathing in cold water but it’s better not to rush into it, wait a little, and start doing it gradually.

Anyone who is afraid of the hot wind should wrap his nose and mouth with a turban and veil and endure the discomfort of this. Before setting out on the road, they should eat onions with sour milk, especially if they cook it well, or soak the onions in sour milk overnight. They eat onions and drink sour milk. Before putting the onion in sour milk, you need to crumble it well.

You need to drip rose and pumpkin oil into your nose, as well as drink pumpkin oil, because this will ward off the harmfulness of the expected hot wind. If someone is injured by the hot wind, then he should pour cold water on his limbs and wash his face, give him food from vegetables with cold qualities, moisten his head with oil with a cold quality, like rose oil and Egyptian willow oil, and juice with a cold quality, like for example, the juice of the survivor, and then wash. Let him beware of sexual intercourse. When what happened to him passes, salted fish will benefit him. Wine diluted with water is also useful. Milk is his best food unless he has a fever.

If his fever is not putrefactive, but one-day, then he should eat sour curdled milk. If he wants to drink during the simoom, he should limit himself to rinsing his mouth, but not drink a lot, because then he will die on the spot, on the contrary, he should limit himself to rinsing his mouth, but if he inevitably needs to drink, then let him drink in sips.

When what happened to him passes and his excitement from thirst subsides, he can drink calmly. If you start by drinking a mixture of rose oil and water, then drink water, it is better.

In general, a person suffering from heat should stay in a cool place, wash his feet with cold water, and if he is thirsty, he should drink cold water little by little and eat quickly digestible things.