Laban - milk

Essence.
Milk is a combination of three substances: watery, curdled and oily. Oiliness predominates in cow's milk, but camel milk contains less oily and curdled parts and is very thin. Donkey milk is also low-fat and liquid, while goat milk is balanced; Sheep's milk is thick and fatty, but cow's milk is thicker and fattier, and mare's milk is like camel's milk - it is thin and watery.

Choice.
The best milk for humans is human milk. The best milk is that which is drunk from the breast or when it has just been strained. The best milk is very white and of uniform thickness and such that a drop of it remains on the nail and does not spread. The diet of a dairy animal must be plant-based, wholesome, and free from any foreign taste - sour, bitter, or pungent, as well as foreign or unpleasant odor. Milk should be consumed as soon as it is milked, before it undergoes any change.

The milk of any animal whose pregnancy is longer or shorter than that of a human is bad. Therefore, suitable milk! is the milk of an animal close to humans in this

relation, such as cow.

Nature.
The watery part of the milk is hot, and the oily part is close to balance, although it tends to be warm. Sour milk is cold and dry.

Properties.
The watery part of the milk thins, washes, releases its nature, and there is no pungency in it. Milk sometimes balances chyme, strengthens the body and makes it fat. If drunk with honey, it clears thick juices from internal ulcers, promotes their ripening and flushes them out.

Milk produces good chyme, glues and increases brain power, especially human milk.

Milk is quickly digested, and how could it be otherwise, if it is born from already perfectly digested blood, which once again undergoes some digestion, even if it itself comes from a rather cold organ. Milk is not nutritious until it is similar in its state to a nutrient that needs intensive digestion and re-purification. Moreover, when excess heat takes hold of him, it quickly returns him to the nature of balanced blood.

How well Rufus said about milk, although he was objected to! Due to the tendency of milk to be cold, it does not harm people with a mucous nature, since their warmth does not convert it, as it should, into blood substance. The body assimilates milk before it is converted into blood due to its proximity to the blood; it is useful for people with a hot and dry nature, because there is no bile in their stomachs. Milk, in addition, has such correspondences with the bodies of people, the reasons for which are incomprehensible.

Anyone who has drunk milk must be quiet after this so that it does not spoil or turn sour in his stomach. After milk, you should neither sleep nor take other food until it has gone down.

Milk is more suitable for those who are nearing the end of life than for young men with a hot nature, for in these latter it

turns into bile. Milk is also useful for old people because it moisturizes and stops the itching they often experience. But to digest milk, old people should resort to honey.

Milk often begins with the release of nature and the removal of excess located in the intestinal area. Then it begins to nourish and, spreading throughout the body, locks the nature. Milk foams if you don't boil it. It is combined from the beginning of the laxative - this is its watery part - and from the beginning of the fixative - this is its curdled part. Colostrum is slowly digested, produces thick juice and goes down slowly, but honey corrects it and the body receives abundant nutrition from the colostrum. Sour milk produces immature juice, and boiled milk, especially thick milk, the thicker it is, the more it fixes it. All milk causes blockages, especially in the liver, except the milk of the camel and similar animals; the latter does not cause blockages due to low curdiness and due to the cleansing properties of its watery part.

Milk is beneficial from the accumulation of matter, which pours into the internal organs and harms them with its sharpness and burning; it weakens matter, washing it better than water washes it, thanks to the ability to purify, which water does not have, and balances its quality. It also blocks the path of matter, because it corresponds to a given organ and, as it were, sticks to the organ, standing between it and the bad juice. This way the juice does not find the organ exposed.

Milk is harmful to bleeding and has a bad effect on the insides. Goat's milk is more harmful to the insides than any other milk, since goats eat most of the astringent plants. Sheep's milk is the opposite of goat's milk, but it is not praiseworthy and causes inflammation.

Due to its substance, milk is capable of quickly changing its state, especially towards warmth. Nothing can harm the body as much as bad milk.

Donkey's milk is watery, while pig's milk is watery and unripe. Spring milk is more watery than summer milk, as is the milk of animals that graze on river banks and swamps, because spring plants are more moist than summer ones. The closer summer gets to autumn, the more the milk thickens. Milk is best in midsummer, but there is danger that the heat will change it when it is drunk; but in spring there is no such danger. Cow's milk has a lot of fat, sheep's milk is very cheesy, and camel's milk is low in fat and cheesy substances; It is followed in this respect by mare's milk and then by donkey's milk. Therefore, the milk of these animals rarely curdles in the stomach. There is a saltiness in camel milk as camels love to eat khamb; This milk is the best. At the same time, they say that it lingers strongly in the stomach and in the upper parts of the abdominal cavity, longer than any other milk.

Know also that milk differs depending on the color of the animal and its age, that is, depending on whether it is young, old or middle-aged, and also depending on its build, that is, whether its meat is soft or hard, fat is it an animal or skinny, is it white or a different color. The weakest milk, they say, comes from a white animal, and it drains the fastest.

Cosmetics.
Excessive consumption of milk, as some doctors claim, gives rise to lice, and this is not impossible; however, milk, if lubricated with it, removes ugly spots on the skin, and if drunk, it greatly improves the complexion. However, milk is one of the substances that causes vadah. The exception is camel milk; there is rarely any need to fear wadakh from him.

If you drink milk with sugar, it greatly improves the complexion, especially in women, and makes it fat. Curd whey fattens even people with a hot and dry nature, if they are emaciated from such a nature, moisturizing and removing bad juice and improving nutrition. Sour milk with iron slag quickly makes such people fat. Curd whey, when rubbed in, reduces freckles, and when taken as a drink, it can also sometimes be beneficial.

Tumors and acne.
Those who suffer from malignant tumors, abscesses, gall tumors in the liver, jarab and scabies are often cured by drinking milk, unless there is something in their nature that spoils the milk and turns it into bile. Milk is harmful for those who have internal tumors.

Wounds and ulcers.
Milk is suitable for treating internal ulcers because it washes, cleanses and seals. If there is nothing in nature that can spoil milk and turn it into bile, then it is useful for those suffering from ulcers. Curd whey with myrobalans is suitable for the treatment of jarab.

Tools with joints.
Milk is harmful for those suffering from nerve diseases, especially cold and mucous diseases.

Organs of the head.
Goat's milk helps against catarrhs, delaying them and softening the severity of discharge, and is beneficial for ulcers in the throat. Milk is a remedy for dry memory loss, melancholy and obsession. Milk harms teeth, corrodes them, chips and crumbles them, especially if the nature of the tooth is cold. It loosens the gums and after it you even need to rinse your mouth with honey, wine or sikanjubin. However, they say that donkey milk, when rinsed in your mouth, strengthens your teeth and gums.

Milk is not suitable for people suffering from headaches, dizziness and ringing in the ears. It is especially harmful to sleep after milk, and in general it is harmful for people with a weak head.

Organs of the eye.
Milk causes blurred vision and night blindness. But if you milk it directly on the eyes, it helps against inflammation and harm caused by hot matter pouring into the eye. It also helps with roughness of the eyelids and has the same effect when mixed with egg whites and with raw rose oil, if applied to the eye. Milking milk on the eyes helps with red spots in the eye.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Donkey and goat milk are good for coughs, consumption and hemoptysis, as you will find in your place; Sheep's milk is more beneficial for hemoptysis. Milk is one of the cures for lung ulcers and consumption. Gargling your mouth and throat with it helps with sore throats, sore throats, and tumors of the tongue and tonsils, but it harms those suffering from moist heart failure, whether from blood or mucus. Camel milk helps against asthma and shortness of breath. Milk is more suitable for the chest than for the head or stomach.

Nutritional organs.
Milk causes blockages in the liver, and whey from cottage cheese is useful for jaundice. Goat and camel milk also helps with all this, and donkey milk is good for dropsy. The milk of all these animals is also beneficial for hardening of the spleen, and camel milk with castor oil is beneficial for internal hardening. Milk and especially colostrum cause bloating, swelling and pain; both, but predominantly milk, excite hiccups and “smoky” belching.

Milk, with the exception of camel milk, is harmful to those with spleen and liver disease and those in need of a light diet; Camel milk is beneficial for many diseases of the spleen and liver and moisturizes the liver. Camel milk is very useful for dropsy, especially if you drink it with the urine of an Arabian camel; it stimulates the appetite for food and causes thirst. Sour milk is digested very slowly and produces immature juice, but the stomach, whether naturally or by nature hot, digests it and benefits from it. There is no “smoky” burp from it, since the cream has been skimmed from it.

Eruption organs.
Curd whey drives away burnt yellow bile, and when mixed with dodder, burnt black bile. Milk promotes the formation of stones. Milk, boiled so that the wateriness disappears from it, locks the stomach and delays bloody diarrhea. Camel's milk promotes menstruation, and cow's milk is good against bilious diarrhea. Enemas are made from fresh milk for ulcers in the uterus, and goat's milk is useful for ulcers in the bladder. Milk compensates for the damage caused by copulation and strengthens the strength for intercourse; it causes bloating in the intestines.

Any thick milk causes swelling and gives rise to stones, and especially colostrum. All milk encourages copulation; Even sour and curdled milk has this effect on the body with a hot nature due to the fact that it moisturizes and swells. Often milk softens the nature, especially the milk of a mare and a donkey; and after it - goat's and any other milk, which has little wateriness.

Excessive consumption of milk sometimes weakens the stomach and it is not digested. Salt contributes to the laxative effect of milk and the laxative effect of curd whey, and as for milk boiled over a fire, or warmed with hot stones or strips of iron, such milk inevitably clogs the stomach. Milk is useful for abrasions in the intestines, and boiled sour milk stops bilious and bloody diarrhea. Camel milk is useful for kidney problems. If milk is applied to tumors and ulcers in the anus, as well as to ulcers on the pubis, it is beneficial and soothes the pain and burning sensation that occurs in these organs.

Fevers.
Goat and donkey milk are good for consumption and dryness, as you will find in your place. Sour milk often stops debilitating fevers if the fat is carefully removed from it so that it is better absorbed. As for thick fresh milk, it is often avoided during fevers, and a person with a fever should not approach it at all.

Poisons.
Milk is good for those who have taken deadly drugs, or taken sea hare, hemlock or henbane; it is especially useful against Spanish flies, sea hare, tapsia, hellebore and acanites, which suffocate the wolf and leopard, as well as against all corrosive and putrefactive medicines.

Milk is also a remedy for a person who has been given bleached milk: it restores his mind.