Digestive disorder

Food spoils in the stomach for reasons opposite to the circumstances under which it remains benign in the stomach. Generally speaking, the reason for this is connected either with the food, or with the food taken, or with random circumstances unexpectedly affecting the stomach. Food spoils in the stomach either due to its quantity, when there is more of it than it should, and digestion affects it less than it should, or when there is less of it than it should, and digestion affects it more than it should, so that it burns and turns into into ashes; In a similar way, rarefied food substances spoil in a fiery, hot stomach.

As for the quality of food, it may itself be quickly susceptible to spoilage, such as fresh milk, melon and peaches, or slowly susceptible to correction, like mushrooms or buffalo meat, or have an excessive quality of warmth, like honey, or coldness. like a pumpkin. She may also suppress the urge to eat due to a property inherent in herself or the one who eats the food, as happens when a person’s nature runs away from food, even if it is praiseworthy and excites the appetite of others. This also depends on the time of food intake, that is, whether it is taken when there is overflow in the stomach or the remainder of other food in it, or, on the contrary, it is taken before moderate physical work, after the eruption and elimination of food eaten earlier. The cause of indigestion can also be an error in the order of the sequence of dishes, if something that is digested quickly is given on top of something that is digested slowly; then the stomach digests the quickly digestible food before the slowly digested one, so that the first floats on top of the second, spoils itself and spoils the food with which it is mixed. When distributing dishes in order, it is imperative that the light food precede the heavy and the soft astringent, unless there is a disease-related reason requiring the astringent to precede and lock up the nature. Digestion is also upset by the abundance of various dishes, which are mixed with one another, so that quickly digested foods are combined with slowly digested ones.

As for indigestion, depending on who eats the food, this is due either to the condition of his stomach, or to a cause emanating from other organs surrounding the stomach and arising in them. The reason lies in the stomach itself, for example, the presence in it of a disorder of nature with matter or without matter, as a result of which the stomach is either powerless to digest or digests too much; this happens, as you know, with hot or cold nature. Either the substance of the walls of the stomach is not dense and the omentum is thin, or the stomach does not cover the food equally and is faulty, or the stomach covers it properly, but the weight of the food causes it suffering, and it strives to release its contents, although it does not cause rumbling and bloating. Both of these phenomena are also among the causes of weakness and cessation of digestion.

As for the cause coming from something else, this happens, for example, when there are winds in the stomach that prevent the stomach from completely absorbing food. If they say that one of the reasons for food spoilage in the stomach is frequent belching, then indigestion occurs not because there is belching, but because there are winds in it that arise and distend the stomach: this causes the food to float, and the bottom of the stomach does not covers it well. Anything that causes food to float interferes with digestion. The same thing happens if liquids flow into the stomach from the head, liver, spleen and other organs, which spoil the food by mixing with it, and the stomach cannot control it; Often these fluids are poured out after digestion, but often they are poured out before digestion. “Or the liver and spleen surrounding the stomach are cold or of a bad nature.

Causes that unexpectedly affect food or the person who eats it are, for example, lack of sleep necessary for digestion, or the presence of movement that is not necessary for digestion and from which the food is shaken and spoils, as well as drinking more or less than follows, in quantity, copulation after eating, an abundance of dishes that upsets the digestive nature, bathing after a meal in a bathhouse, exposure to very cold, very hot or bad air. The winds locked up in the stomach interfere with digestion and spoil digestion by churning and moving nutrients among them. Food spoils in the stomach either because it rots, or because it burns, or because it sours, or because it acquires an extraneous quality alien to the usual qualities; all this happens because the food either itself turns into such a state, or because the juice of this quality mixed with the food and spoiled it. “Sometimes this juice has a clear effect, and sometimes there is little of it, and it settles in the lower part of the stomach, without spreading and not reaching the mouth of the stomach. Whenever the amount of food increases, the juice rises, becomes more abundant, rises to the mouth of the stomach and permeates all food. Often such juice penetrates into the vessels and then immediately retreats, encountering blockages formed at the mouths of the passages on its way, the presence of which makes it impossible to pass through the vessels. If the stomach is hot in the absence of matter or in the presence of yellow-bilious matter that pours out into it either from the liver, where too much of it is generated, or through the gall bladder mentioned above, light food spoils in it, and coarse and dense food, like beef, is digested. The spleen is also the cause of spoilage of food in the stomach. Let it be known that indigestion sometimes leads to many bad diseases such as epilepsy, “abdominal melancholy”, etc. Moreover, it is the mother of all diseases and the source of all ailments. When the digestion of convalescents deteriorates, at least in the sense of excessive acidity of juices, this foreshadows the return of the disease, for one can be afraid of their rotting. Spoilage of food in the stomach often causes scabies.