Dajaj wa dik - chicken and rooster

Essence.
They are famous. Broth made from old roosters has many properties, which we will list below. The method of cooking this broth, mentioned by Galen, is this: the roosters are slaughtered after fattening, when they become so plump that they stand up and fall down. Then they are cut, the insides are taken out and, having filled their insides with salt, they are sewn up and boiled in twenty cysts of water until the water reaches three cutuls. This entire amount must be drunk without getting up, and sometimes substances are added to this, which we will mention every time.

Choice.
Rufus says: “The best rooster is the one that has not yet crowed, and the best hens are those that have not yet laid eggs, but the old ones are no good.”

Nature.
Chicken fat is hotter than old chicken fat.

Actions and properties.
The rooster's testicles form commendable chyme and are quickly digested.

Tools with joints.
The mentioned rooster broth is suitable for treating tremors and joint pain. It must be boiled with polypodium, dill and salt in twenty cups of water until a third or a quarter of this amount remains.

Organs of the head.
The meat of young chickens enhances mental abilities, and chicken brain delays nosebleeds when blood comes from the meninges.

Breast organs. The mentioned rooster broth helps with asthma, chicken meat clears the voice, and the old rooster broth with dill and safflower helps against all these diseases. Chicken Isfidbaj soothes stomach inflammation.

Nutritional organs.
Rooster broth helps with stomach pain caused by winds.

Eruption organs.
A broth made from an old rooster with polypodium and dill helps a lot with kulandzh. Meat from young chickens increases the amount of semen; the mentioned broth with polypodium drives away black bile, and with safflower it drives away mucus. Chickens are sometimes boiled with astringent medicines for abrasions in the intestines, and with milk for ulcers in the bladder.

Fevers.
Rooster broth helps against chronic fevers.

Poisons.
Opened chickens and roosters “immediately, without delay, are applied to the places bitten by the reptiles, and are changed every hour, and this prevents the spread of the poison. From drinking the poison, the poisoned person takes rooster broth with dill and salt and it will vomit.