"Tacuinum Sanitatis", Chestnuts
Entitled: "Nature: Warm in the first degree, dry in the second. Optimum: The marrons of Brianza, well ripened. Usefulness: They exercise an influence over coitus and are very nourishing. Dangers: They inflate, and cause headaches. Neutralization of the Dangers: Cooking them in water." The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook based on the Taqwim as-sihhah, an 11th century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Listing its contents organically rather than alphabetically, it sets forth the six essential elements for well-being: sufficient food and drink in moderation, fresh air, alternations of activity and rest, alternations of sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, and finally the effects of states of mind. In addition to its importance for the study of medieval medicine, the Tacuinum is also of interest in the study of agriculture, cooking and society. Each scene is accompanied by a brief summary of the health aspects of the subject. From the Tacuinum of Rouen, 15th century.
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