The Stomach

From the Seventh Treatise of Hunayn Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Those who are experienced said, regarding one who is afflicted with weakness? of the stomach because it is from the cessation of the digestion of food in itself, even if there is no if there is no fever accompanying it: one should use anointments with hot oil and medicines mixed with some of this sunbul spikenard on surfaces and on dry cloths. A bandage of boiled water is placed on it, and after that, wool moistened with this oil, or with qist costus root oil, or with mastik mastic oil, or with spikenard oil, or with nardin valerian oil, or similar substances. For the vessels treated with these oils, there are other, stronger and more effective medicines. These are the poultices for the stomach using aromatics. These oils I mentioned are medicines of close potency to it, such as spikenard, hamama chamomile, qasab al-darira sweet flag/calamus, orris root, idhkhir lemongrass, salikha cassia, liquid storax, and Jewish frankincense original: "muql al-yahud", and tongue oil for indigestion?. If he does all of these, he is treating them with these heated poultices, which are either turmeric medicine, or nafs thyme medicine, or the samm poison/toxic herb (with a damma on the kha), for there is no help like what they have for that for the weakness of the stomach after digestion and vomiting. In Coranitis likely Erasistratus, Erasistratus said: If a person is distressed by his own condition, such that he does not digest his food or does not desire it, he must first use exercise and consume the lightest and fastest-digesting food, and in a moderate amount. If that does not help, he should begin treating the sufferers of harbiyah gastric fever/inflammation after an hour with what we have already named in categories, intending by that the weak stomach. I have named people who desired night sleep in an hour, and their food was bad for them; for them, food cooled on ice was used, and they were fed chilled fruit and barley broth with vinegar.