Drinking regime of water and drinks

For balanced natures, the best is moderately cold water or cooled with ice from the outside, this is especially important if the ice is bad, but it is advisable to do this even if the ice is good, because ice dissolved in water harms the nerves, respiratory organs and all internal organs. Nobody can tolerate such water except full-blooded people. Although it will not cause immediate harm, its harmfulness will be felt over time and as you age. Experienced people say that you should not mix well water with river water until one of them has time to pass through the body.

As for the choice of water, we have already talked about this, and we also talked about improving bad water. Adding vinegar improves the water.

Know that it is harmful to drink water on an empty stomach, after exercise, and especially after a bath on an empty stomach. It is also harmful to drink while succumbing to false thirst at night, which happens to drunk people and those suffering from a hangover, or before nature begins to digest food. The extreme dangers of drinking too much have already been discussed above. If you are uncontrollably thirsty, you should be content with fresh air and rinsing your mouth with cold water. If this does not satisfy, then you need to drink from a jug with a narrow neck, which often quenches thirst during a hangover. Sometimes it is not harmful to drink water on an empty stomach. If a person cannot help drinking on an empty stomach, especially after exercise, then let him drink wine diluted with hot water before drinking water on an empty stomach.

Let anyone who experiences false thirst know that it is calmed by sleep and patience, because during sleep, human nature dissolves the substance that excites thirst, especially if patience is combined with sleep.

If, obeying a false thirst, you drink water and thereby extinguish the power of nature, which brings the juices to maturity, then the thirst will return again, while the juice that excites thirst continues to remain.

You should drink water not in one gulp, but in sips, especially with false thirst. Drinking very cold water is not good. If there is no other option, then you should drink after sufficient food. Warm water causes nausea, and even warmer water, if consumed in large quantities, will weaken the stomach. If you drink it from time to time, it flushes the stomach and relaxes the nature.

As for wine, white and light wine is more suitable for people with a hot nature and it does not cause headaches, on the contrary, it hydrates them and relieves headaches caused by the heat of the stomach.

Another wine, cleared with qa'q or bread, can replace the light wine, especially if the bread is served two hours before drinking. And sweet and thick wine is more suitable for those who want to gain weight and get stronger; At the same time, you need to be careful about the formation of blockages.

For those with a cold and slimy nature, old red wine is more suitable.

Drinking wine after any food is not good, because it entails illness, which we have already talked about. It should not be drunk except after digestion of food and after it has gone down.

If food with bad chyme is consumed, then drinking wine is not good, regardless of whether it is drunk during a meal or after digestion of food, because in this case the bad chyme penetrates into more distant parts of the body. You should also not drink after fruit, especially melon. It is better to start drinking with small cups than large ones. If you drink two or three cups during meals, then this is not harmful for an ordinary person; the same for healthy people after bloodletting. For persons in whose body bile predominates, wine benefits due to the secretion of bile, and for persons in whose body moisture predominates - due to bringing moisture to maturity.

The more aroma and pleasantness a wine has and the tastier it is, the better it is.

Wine is an excellent means of causing food to penetrate into all parts of the body. It cuts off and dissolves mucus, removes bile through urine, etc., makes black bile slide and easily removes it, by its counteraction eliminates its harmfulness and dissolves everything that has thickened, without causing excessive and unpleasant warming. We will mention the types of wine in its place.

A person with a strong brain does not get drunk quickly: his brain does not accept the rising bad vapor. Nothing reaches his brain except the pleasant warmth. His mind becomes clear in a way that other minds cannot. And for people with brains of opposite properties, it acts the other way around.

If someone has a weak chest and his breathing becomes difficult in winter, he cannot drink much wine. Anyone who wants to drink a lot of wine should not eat to his fill and add a little diuretic to his food. When overflowing from food or drink occurs, let him vomit, drink water with honey and then vomit again. After this, you need to rinse your mouth with a mixture of vinegar and honey, and wash your face with cold water.

If anyone experiences an unpleasant feeling from wine, due to the heating of the body and liver, then let him eat soup flavored with unripe grapes or something similar and drink pomegranate juice or sour citron juice.

If someone gets a headache from wine, he should drink less and drink purified wine diluted with water and eat something like quince.

If a person is bothered by heat in the stomach, then he should eat roasted myrtle berries and suck camphor cakes or something else containing astringent and sour substances. If the cold in the stomach bothers you, then you need to snack on sati, cloves and citron peel.

Know that old wine is classified as medicine, not food. Young wine is harmful to the liver due to the fact that it swells the stomach, acts as a laxative and leads to liver displacement.

Know that the best wine is considered to be moderately aged, transparent, with a reddish color, a pleasant smell and moderate taste, neither sour nor sweet.

Good wine, known as "washed", is prepared by taking three parts must and one part water and boiling it until one third has evaporated.

If, as a result of drinking wine, someone gets heartburn, after drinking the wine, you need to suck a pomegranate and drink cold water, and the next morning drink a drink made from wormwood, and after eating a little, go to the bathhouse.

Know that wine diluted with water relaxes and moisturizes the stomach, and due to the fact that water penetrates the body, such wine quickly quenches thirst. At the same time, it cleanses the skin and strengthens mental strength.

A reasonable person should avoid drinking wine on an empty stomach, and people with a wet nature should avoid drinking wine until the time when their body has completely used up water; one should refrain from drinking wine after excessive exercise. Both are harmful to the brain and nerves: it causes spasms, mental insanity or some other disease, or excess heat.

Constant drunkenness is harmful, it spoils the nature of the liver and brain, weakens the nerves, causes nerve disease, death and sudden death.

A large amount of wine in some stomachs turns into bad bile, and in other stomachs into pungent vinegar; the harm from both is very great.

Some believe that intoxication is beneficial if it occurs once or twice a month, for it eases mental strength, encourages, drives away urine and sweat, and dissolves excess, especially in the stomach.

It is necessary to know that wine mainly acts harmfully on the brain, so a person with a weak brain should drink wine only in small quantities and dilute it with water. For someone who has drunk too much wine, it is better to induce vomiting as soon as possible, if this is easy to do, but if not, then you need to drink more plain water or add honey to it. Then, after vomiting, you need to take a hot bath, lubricate your body with plenty of oil and then sleep.

Drinking wine by children is like adding fire to the fire from burning small wood. An old man can be given as much as he can bear, but with young people one must adhere to moderation.

It is best for young people to drink old wine, diluted with pomegranate juice and cold water, in order to avoid harm and so that their nature is not inflamed.

Cold countries are conducive to drinking wine, but hot countries are not.

If anyone wants to drink his fill, he should not overeat. He should also not eat sweets, but slurp on fatty isfidbaj, eat bread, soup made from bread and broth, and fatty meat cut into pieces, observing moderation, and not being tired. In addition, you need to snack on salted almonds and salted lentils, as well as caper kamakh.

If you eat cabbage and pickled olives and the like, it will be beneficial and will promote drinking wine. The same effect is exerted by everything that absorbs wine vapors, such as Nabatean cabbage seeds, cumin, dry rue, pulegium mint, petroleum salt, azhgon seeds and the like. Sticky and glutinous foods often thicken wine vapors. These include sweet and sticky baked goods. They prevent intoxication and, due to the fact that they themselves penetrate slowly, little wine is accepted.

Rapid intoxication occurs from weakness of the brain or from the presence of a large amount of juices in it, as well as from the strength of wine, from insufficient food, poor diet and everything connected with it.

As for the remedy for preventing weakness of the head, these are the same ointments as for chronic catarrh, which are mentioned in the corresponding chapter.

People with weak brains should drink wine only in small quantities. Drinks that slow down intoxication. Take one part of white cabbage juice, one part of sour pomegranate juice and half a part of vinegar, boil and drink one ukiyya before making wine.

Another remedy: take salt, rue and black cumin each, dry it all and take it in the form of pills.

Another way: take the seeds of Nabatean cabbage, cumin, peeled bitter almonds, pulegian mint, wormwood, petroleum salt, azhgon seeds and dry rue; This mixture should be taken on an empty stomach, two dirhams in cold water, unless harm from heat is feared.

Sobering remedies for a drunk include the following: three times in a row he is given water with vinegar or curd whey and sour milk to drink. In addition, he is given camphor and sandalwood to smell, or his head is smeared with such cooling and distracting agents as a mixture of rose oil and wine vinegar.

As for hangover remedies, we will mention it in the Book of Private Diseases. Whoever wants to get drunk quickly and without harm, let him infuse his wine with ear or Indian aloe.

If anyone needs strong intoxication to relieve pain in any organ, then he should add an intoxicating infusion of tares to the wine, or take half a dirham of fume, opium and henbane, and a qirat of nutmeg, sukkah and fresh aloe and drink all this in wine as much as needed, or boil black henbane with mandrake peels in water until the mixture turns red; then it must be added to the wine.