Diet

Those who take care of their health should strive to ensure that the bulk of their food does not consist of any healing, nutritious substances, such as vegetables, fruits and other things, because those foods that have a thinning property ignite the blood, and those that have the property of thickening make the body slimy and heavy; Therefore, a person should eat food such as meat, especially the meat of a kid, small calves, lamb, wheat cleared of debris, collected from a healthy field that has not been subjected to any disaster; sweets that suit his nature, good fragrant wine. No attention should be paid to other types of food, except when they are necessary for medicinal or preventive purposes. Fruits more suitable for common food include figs, very ripe, and grapes, as well as dates in those cities and localities where they are common.

If you feel excess as a result of eating food, you need to hurry to remove it.

You should eat only with appetite, and also not restrain your appetite when it flares up. At the same time, the appetite should not be false, as in people who are drunk and suffering from indigestion.

As a result of enduring hunger, the stomach is filled with bad caviar-like juices.

In winter, you should eat practically hot food, and in summer, cold or warm, but it should not be so hot or cold that it is unbearable.

Know that there is nothing worse than overeating in a good year, and then sitting hungry in a lean year, or vice versa, and the latter is worse. We saw people who were short of food during a famine year, and when food became plentiful, they overate and died. Indeed, excessive gluttony under all circumstances, whether from eating or drinking, leads to death. As a result of excessive saturation, many people suffocated and died.

If someone mistakenly consumes healing nutrients, then care must be taken to digest and ripen this food. It is necessary to prevent the resulting disorder of nature by using after them means that are contrary to nature in order to digest them. If cold things such as kissa, cucumber and pumpkin have been eaten, their effect is balanced by the counteraction of such things as garlic and leek. If hot things were eaten, then this is also balanced by things with the opposite quality, such as kissa and purslane. If you have eaten things that form a blockage, then you need to eat something that opens the blockage and has an emptying effect. After this you need to fast and not eat anything. This, of course, must be done by anyone who wishes to be healthy until he has a real appetite and his stomach and upper intestines are free of previous food.

The most harmful thing for the body is eating unripe and undigested food. There is nothing worse than indigestion, especially from bad food. When indigestion occurs from rough food, it entails pain in the joints and kidneys, asthma, shortness of breath, gout, hardening of the spleen and liver, and various diseases associated with mucus and black bile. If indigestion occurs from thin food, it entails acute malignant fevers and acute malignant tumors.

Sometimes there is a need to take some other food after eating or something else that replaces food, which serves as a kind of medicine. For example, people who eat spicy or salty foods, in case of incomplete digestion, eat something moisturizing from food that has no taste, as a result of which the chyme formed from the first food improves. People who take such measures do not need to engage in physical exercise for digestion.

In another case, that is, when a person eats rough food, then after a certain time he should eat something spicy and quickly digested and after eating make light movements, in accordance with the amount of food in the stomach, especially if after eating he wants to sleep . A depressed state of mind, as well as heavy bodily movements, interfere with digestion.

In winter, you should not eat low-nutrient foods like vegetables, but rather eat more nutritious grains, as well as denser foods. And in the summer it’s the other way around. In addition, you should not fill your stomach to such an extent that there is no room left for additional food, but you should stop eating when you still have some appetite. This remainder of appetite is a continuation of the feeling of hunger, which disappears after a short time. You should stick to your normal eating regimen.

The worst food is that which burdens the stomach, and the worst drink is when it goes beyond moderation and fills the stomach to the brim.

If you ever eat too much, then the next day you need to remain hungry and sleep for a long time in a place where it is moderately warm, that is, not hot and not cold. If sleep does not help, then you should walk long and slowly, continuously and without resting. In addition, you need to drink some pure wine.

Rufus said: “I approve of this kind of walking, especially after eating, because it well prepares the place for the evening meal.”

You need to sleep first a little on the right side, then on the left, then again on the right.

Know that a blanket and a high pillow promote digestion. In short, the members should be positioned so that the head is higher than the feet.

The amount of food eaten depends on the habit and strength of the person. For a person with normal strength, the amount of food should be such that when he eats it, it does not burden, stretch the ends of the ribs, bloat the abdomen, rumble or float to the top.

In addition, after it there should be no nausea, “dog appetite”, loss of strength, stupor, insomnia, and the taste of food should not be felt when belching some time after eating. It is extremely bad to eat so much that the taste of food will be felt when burping for a long time after eating.

The amount of food eaten is considered moderate if after eating the pulse does not increase and breathing does not shorten, because due to the pressure of the stomach on the abdominal obstruction, breathing shortens and becomes more frequent, as a result of which the need for increased work of the heart increases and thus the pulse increases if the strength does not weaken.

If someone feels warm and hot after eating, then let him not eat the permitted amount at once, but little by little, so that he does not develop a state similar to chills, which, as a result of being warmed by food, may be followed by further fever, as happens with one-day fever.

Anyone who is unable to digest enough should eat more often, but less.

Someone whose nature is dominated by black bile should eat very moisturizing and slightly warming foods, and a person whose nature is dominated by bile should eat foods that are cooling and moisturizing. A person who produces hot blood needs poorly nutritious and cold food, and a person who produces mucous blood needs

should eat low-nutrient, but hot and liquefying food.

There is a certain order for eating, which everyone who cares about their health must adhere to.

It is necessary to refrain from consuming liquid and quickly digestible food after strong and solid food, since liquid food is digested earlier, while still above the solid food, and, not finding a path for passage, rots, spoils, and spoils what it is mixed with. This happens with the exception of those cases that we will mention below.

Also, you should not eat food that has the ability to make it slip, and you should not immediately eat strong and hard food after it, because the latter will slip along with the first when it penetrates the intestines, without achieving complete digestion.

You should also not eat fish and the like after heavy physical exercise, for they spoil and spoil the juices.

There are people who should eat something strengthening before eating. These are people with weak stomachs, in whom food quickly goes down and does not stay until completely digested; then you constantly need to monitor the condition and nature of the stomach. There are also people in whose stomachs light and quickly digestible food spoils, while slowly digestible food is digested. These are people whose stomachs are predominantly fiery. There are also people who are opposite to this. Each of these should be treated as their habit requires.

Countries have their own natural characteristics, and as for natures, there is much more that goes beyond analogy. You should remember this and give preference to experience over analogy. In most cases, familiar food, even if it is slightly harmful, is more suitable than unusual, superior food.

For each complexion and each nature, certain food corresponds and favors. If it is desirable to change their complexion and nature, you need to eat food with opposite properties.

Some people are harmed by good, praiseworthy food; in that case, let them abstain from it.

A person should not deceive himself into thinking that he can digest poor-quality food, because as a result of this, over time, malignant juices are formed, causing illness and death.

Most often, persons who have bad juices in their bodies are allowed to eat praiseworthy food in abundance,

especially if, due to their weakness, they cannot tolerate laxatives.

A person with a porous body that easily absorbs excess should eat easily digestible moist food. In addition, a porous body more easily tolerates rough and varied food and is less susceptible to harmful effects caused by internal causes, and is more susceptible to harmful effects caused by external causes.

Anyone who eats a lot of meat and leads a sedentary lifestyle should take care of bloodletting. A person with a cold nature should consume juvarishnas, atrifulas and things that cleanse the stomach, intestines and small veins located near them.

The worst thing is to mix a variety of foods and eat for too long, because then the food eaten later combines with the food eaten earlier, when it has already begun to be digested. Thus, there will be no uniformity in the digestion of the parts of food.

You should know that food is considered suitable when it is tasty, because the stomach and grasping force grips it more strongly when the substance of the food is healthy and all the dominant organs are healthy and favor each other. This is a must. If the natures of the organs are unhealthy or the organs oppose each other by nature and if the liver by nature opposes the stomach beyond what is natural, then it does not matter that the food tastes good.

The harm caused by a very tasty food is that you can eat too much of it. When eating to your fill, it is best to eat once one day, and twice the next day, in the morning and in the evening. In this case, you need to strictly adhere to the habit. If a person who is accustomed to eating twice a day begins to eat once, then his strength will weaken, so he must eat twice, even if his digestion is weakened, however, a little each time. If someone who is used to eating once a day starts eating twice, he will develop weakness, laziness and lethargy. If he eats in the morning, then by the evening he is attacked by weakness, and if he eats in the evening, the food will not be digested, sour belching, bad mood, nausea, bitterness in the mouth and weakening of the stomach will appear, caused by the introduction of unusual food into the stomach. He will also have what appears in a person due to indigestion, which you will learn about later. These include fearfulness, restlessness, pain and heartburn at the mouth of the stomach. Because the stomach is empty, shrinks and wrinkles, it seems to a person that his intestines and internal organs seem to be hanging in the air. Such a person emits both burnt urine and feces. Sometimes he gets cold feet
discomfort due to the pouring of bile into the stomach. The latter case mostly occurs in people with a bile nature, as well as in those in whom bile predominates only in the nature of the stomach, and not in the whole body. His sleep deteriorates and becomes restless.

People whose stomach collects a lot of bile should eat in portions, but more often, and also eat before the bath.

As for the rest, they should engage in physical exercise, first go to the bathhouse, and then eat, but do not eat before the bathhouse.

If anyone feels the need to eat before engaging in physical exercise, then let him eat only bread in such an amount that the bread begins to be absorbed before the person begins his exercises.

Movements during physical exercise before meals should not be weak; in the same way, movements after eating should only be light and smooth.

Perverted appetite, expressed in the desire for spicy things, in an aversion to sweets and fat, can be corrected by inducing vomiting with the help of such remedies as shikanjubin and radish, given after fish.

Obese people should not eat immediately after the bath, but should wait and sleep a little. It is better for such people to eat once a day. It is undesirable for a person to sleep after eating an overfilling stomach. It is necessary in every possible way to beware of sudden movements after eating, because the latter may slip or slip out without having time to be digested, or the nature of an obese person may deteriorate due to the shaking of the food. After eating, you should not drink a lot of water, because it separates the food from the body of the stomach and causes it to float, so you need to wait to drink until the food has descended from the stomach, which is indicated by a feeling of relief in the upper abdomen. If a person is thirsty, have him drink some cold water in small sips. The colder the water, the more satisfying a small amount of it will be. This amount of water expands and contracts the stomach. In short, it is permissible to drink cold water after meals, but not during meals, in an amount that facilitates the digestion of food.

Tolerating thirst and sleeping is beneficial for those with a cold and damp nature, but harmful for those with a hot nature with a predominance of bile. The same consequences happen if you endure hunger. When people who are bilious suffer from hunger, bile pours into their stomach, and when they eat something, it will spoil, and in their dreams and in reality, what happens to people with spoiled food in their stomach, which we are talking about

already mentioned. Their appetite for food may also deteriorate, in which case they need to drink something that would release everything that is in the stomach and soften the nature. This includes such mild and non-disturbing remedies as plum, or a small amount of shirkhusht. When your appetite returns, you need to eat. In addition, bodies moistened with natural moisture are ready for rapid absorption, as a result of which they do not endure such hunger as dry bodies, except in the case when moistened bodies are saturated with moisture, which is not part of the substance of the organs, but is favorable and is capable of completely transforming into actual food under the influence of human nature.

One of the most harmful things is drinking wine after eating, because it is absorbed and passes quickly, as a result of which food slips through without being digested. As a result, blockages, decay, and sometimes the formation of scabies appear. Sweets accelerate the formation of blockages, since human nature attracts them even before digestion. Blockages cause many diseases, such as dropsy.

The density of air and water, especially in summer, spoils the food eaten; in this case, it is not harmful to drink after eating a cup of wine diluted with water, or hot water in which aloe wood and mastic were boiled. If someone eats a lot of rough food when his insides are too hot, then the food turns into wind, which stretches the stomach and the organs in its area. This is accompanied by malaise.

If a person eats light food on an empty stomach, the stomach will seize it; if after it he eats more rough food, then the stomach will turn away from it, will not digest it, and it will spoil, except in the case when a certain time passes between meals of light and rough food. In such cases, it is best to eat a little rough food first, and then the stomach will not be afraid of light food.

If someone has indulged in excess of food until he is full, so that when he moves, the food in his stomach is churned, or he is bothered by drinking, then let him hasten to regurgitate the contents of the stomach. If vomiting becomes impossible, you need to drink a little hot water, as a result of which the fullness of the stomach will go down and drowsiness will set in. Then you need to lie down and get plenty of sleep.

If this does not satisfy or fails, then one must see whether the natural force is sufficient for the bowel movement; if so, then good, but if not, then you need to help her with mild laxatives. People with a hot nature are given atriful and the laxative julanjubin mixed with a small amount of condensed cdmapa juice. And those who have a cold nature should also be given the remedies mentioned in the Pharmacopoeia, such as Kammuni, Shahriyaran, Tamri. It's better to drink too much than to overeat.

Good measures after such a meal include eating three hummus of sabur, or you should take half a dirham of sabur, half a dirham of Nabataean resin and one danak of bavrak. Easy remedies include the use of turpentine tree resin in the amount of two or three hummus. Sometimes the same amount or a little less bavrac is added to them.

It is very useful to take a little thin-stemmed dodder with wine. If this does not work, you should sleep long hours and give up food for the day. If the patient feels relief, let him go to the bathhouse and eat light food. If after this the food is not digested and you feel heaviness and tension in the stomach and general lethargy, then know that the vessels are overfilled with excess. This is because excessive food, although it is digested in the stomach, is rarely digested in the vessels, remains raw in them, stretches them, and sometimes even breaks them. Then lethargy, yawning and stretching set in, and then you need to treat it with something that has a laxative effect on the blood vessels. If such a condition does not occur, but only fatigue appears, then the patient needs to be given rest for a while and then treated according to the type of fatigue that has occurred, which we will talk about later.

When a person is already old, his body will not take in as much food as he did in his youth. Food will turn into surplus in it. Therefore, he should not eat as much as he was used to eating before, but should reduce the amount of food. If someone is accustomed to a diet of heavy food and switches to a regimen of light food, the air will occupy those passages that were previously occupied during the regimen of heavy food and which now cannot be occupied by light food. And if he goes back to the heavy food regimen, he will develop blockages.

Harm from food with hot properties is eliminated by shikanjubin and especially with the addition of well-known seeds. It is more useful to take sugar sikanjubin, and if it is honey, then simple sikanjubin is enough. After food with cold properties, you should take honey water, honey wine and kammuni. A person with a hot nature should take strong shikanjubin with seeds after a heavy meal. A person with a cold nature in such cases should take falafili and fudanji...

Light food preserves health more, but less maintains strength and strength, and heavy food does the opposite.

Anyone who needs to strengthen the body should take food with strong chyme, while waiting for a strong feeling of hunger and then eat little by little so that the food is better digested.

People who exercise and work hard have an easier time tolerating heavy foods. Their digestion is helped by sound and deep sleep. However, due to the fact that they sweat a lot and a lot of resorption occurs in their body, the liver attracts undigested food to itself, and this predisposes them to fatal diseases late or early in life, especially when they themselves believe that they are digesting food with with the help of sleep, which, however, does not take place when they have constant insomnia, especially when they are already in years.

For those who have a predominant nature of bile and who engage in physical labor and exercise, fresh fruits in the summer are useful if they eat them before meals. Fruits include apricot, mulberry, melon, as well as peach and plum. And if you can get by with other means, then it will be better, because everything that fills the blood with wateriness boils in the body in the same way as the juices of fruits boil outside the body. Although this is useful, at the same time it prepares the blood for decay; the same effect applies to everything that fills the blood with raw juices, although they are often beneficial; These vegetables include kissa and cucumbers. Therefore, people who eat a lot of this kind of food become a target for fevers, although at first the fruits refresh them.

Know that watery juice often turns into ichor if it does not resolve and lingers in the vessels. If you engage in physical exercise before the accumulation of these watery spots occurs, or even immediately after eating fruit, then these watery spots will certainly resolve and the harm they cause will decrease.

Also know that if there is damp mucus or wateriness in the blood, this prevents the blood from adhering to the body, which reduces the nutrition of the body.

If someone eats fruit, he should walk around a little and then eat another, so that the latter slips in with the fruit.

Food that produces watery, thick and sticky juice and bile causes fevers, because the watery juice causes the blood to fester. The sticky and thick juice forms blockages in the passages and channels, and the bile juice warms the body.

Fever is also caused by the fact that the blood produced from this food is spicy. Bitter vegetables in winter often turn out to be very useful, just as fresh vegetables are useful in summer.

If someone is tempted to eat bad food, then let him reduce the number of times he eats and eat at large intervals; In addition, food of opposite quality should be mixed.

If anyone finds sweets unpleasant, then let him drink after them such sour drinks as vinegar, pomegranate juice, vinegar and quince sikanjubin, and the like. He should also not forget to empty his body.

If anyone finds sour food unpleasant, then let him drink honey and old wine after such food. At the same time, he must take them before the previously eaten food ripens and assimilates. In cases where fatty foods seem unpleasant, you should use tart remedies such as chestnut, myrtle berries, Syrian sweet horn, jujube and hawthorn fruits, and also bitter remedies like elecampane. In addition, you need to eat salty and spicy things like kamahi, garlic, and onions. And vice versa.

A person whose body contains bad and liquid juices needs to be given more good food. If his body easily absorbs substances, then he should be fed moist and easily digestible food.

Galen said that wet food is that which is devoid of all qualities, and is as if tasteless, that is, neither sweet, nor sour, nor bitter, nor spicy, nor astringent, nor salty.

A loose body tolerates heavy food more easily than a dense one.

Due to excessive consumption of dry food, strength is lost, skin color deteriorates, nature dries out; excessive consumption of fat leads to lethargy and lack of appetite; food of cold quality leads to weakness and lethargy; excessive consumption of sour foods leads to senility; Excessive spicy and salty food harms the stomach, and salty food also harms the eyes.

If you eat bad food after fatty and natural food, the latter will spoil the former. Sticky food passes slowly. An unpeeled cucumber goes away faster than a peeled one. Also, bread with bran passes faster than bread without bran.

If people engaged in physical labor, after the habit of light food, take heavy food, such as rice with milk, on an empty stomach, then their blood becomes hotter and more excited, which is why they need

bloodletting, even if they did it recently. All this also applies to angry people.

Know that human nature seizes sweet food even before it is ripe and digested, causing the blood to spoil.

Mixing different foods has different effects. Experienced people from India and others say that you should not eat milk with sour things, or fish with milk, because this gives rise to chronic diseases, such as leprosy. They also say that you should not eat sour milk with radishes or poultry; You should also not eat oatmeal after rice with milk. It is not good to eat oil or fat stored in copper vessels. You should not eat roasts fried in the heat of castor oil coals.

Eating a variety of foods can be harmful for two reasons: the first is the non-simultaneous digestion of each of them and the incompatibility of digestible and indigestible foods; the second is the opportunity to eat more than is possible with monotonous food.

In ancient times, people who were abstinent in life avoided this; they were content to eat meat in the morning and bread in the evening.

In summer, the best time to eat is when it's cool.

Suppressing the feeling of hunger often leads to the stomach becoming overfilled with bad ichor.

Know that kebab, when it is digested in the stomach, is the most nutritious food, but it passes slowly and lingers in the cecum.

Shurbaj is good food, and if eaten with onions, it has a carminative effect, and if eaten without onions, it excites the wind.

Some people think that it is good to eat grapes after fried head, but this is not what they think, but on the contrary, it is very bad. The same goes for nabeez. In this case, it is necessary to eat pomegranate seeds without their kernels.

Know that partridge is dry and binds in its quality, chicken is moist and has a laxative effect.

The best chicken meat is that which is fried in kid or lamb rennet; in this case it retains its moisture content. Know that chicken stock balances out the juices more and more strongly than chicken stock. But chicken broth is more nutritious.

It is better to eat goat meat cold, because in this case no steam comes from it, and it is better to eat lamb meat hot, since then its unpleasant smell will disappear.

People with a hot nature should consume zirbaj without saffron and people with a cold nature should consume it with saffron.

Sweets, when made from sugar, like faluzaj, are harmful as they form blockages and cause thirst.

Know that if the bread is not digested in the stomach, then it is very harmful, but if the meat is not digested, then its harm is less.