Discussion on how to protect yourself from poison in drinking and how to treat it

Anyone who is afraid that he will be given poison to drink should beware of foods with too strong a taste - sour, salty, acrid or sweet, or with a strong smell, because poisoners thereby weaken the taste and smell of what they add, and should not appear in a suspicious state. place, feeling intense hunger or intense thirst, for both hunger and thirst make what should be recognized invisible through greed. In addition, when a person full of food or drink is given poison to drink, then two things happen to the poison: firstly, it hides among the food filling the stomach and, secondly, the vessels become overfilled and the poison does not find a way out and sometimes Poisoned foods have a taste of a substance that counteracts the poison. Such a person should also be in the habit of taking medicines that reflect the harmfulness of the poison, such as mithridate, the usefulness of which has been proven, or medicinal porridge made from Armenian clay, and figs with rue leaves, nuts and coarse salt. As for the quantity, you should take twenty parts of dry rue, two parts of nuts, five parts of salt and five parts of dry figs. Citvar root is a wonderful remedy for repelling harm from all poisons, including booze, and I don’t know for sure whether these are two medicines or one. Small turnip seeds in the amount of one and a half dirhams, which are drunk with boiled wine, as well as rue with salt, help with this.

Anyone who fears poisoning should fear not only that someone will give him poison to eat or drink. Poisoning often happens where it is not expected, and sometimes it even happens that something nasty, like lizards, karakurts and scorpions, falls into the cauldrons where food is cooked or into vessels with wine. After all, many insects love the smell of wine and rush to it, and sometimes they die in jugs, and sometimes they drink wine and vomit in it. Therefore, you should not drink wine in places covered with a roof, and sit under tall trees or in dense thickets.