Diet and Regimen Involved in a Cure

[Aramaic] Said R. Judah: The [sting of a] hornet, if a thorn or an abscess is pricking him, if one’s eye pains him, or someone is overcome by fever—for all those, [the heat in] the bathhouse [constitutes] danger.

Radish [ḥamah] for a fever [ḥamah] and beets for chills; but the reverse [constitutes] danger.

Hot [remedies] for the [sting of a] scorpion and cold [remedies] for [the sting of a] hornet; the reverse [constitutes] danger.

Hot [remedies] for a thorn and cold for ḥaspanita’ [-disease]¹; the reverse [constitutes] danger.

Vinegar [is good] for stanching [blood, sikure], and brine [is good] for a fast; the reverse [constitutes] danger.

Cress and stanching [blood constitute] danger.

Fever and stanching [blood constitute] danger.

A pained eye and stanching [constitute] danger.² [ . . . ]

[Hebrew] The sages taught: Six things heal a sick person from their illness, and their cure is [really] a cure. And these are: cabbage, beets, a sap of dry sisin [plant], rennet, sweetbread, and the lobe of the liver. And some say: even small fish. And what is more, small fish increases a person’s whole physical potency. Ten things return the patient to his [state of] illness and worsen his illness. And these are: eating ox meat, fat [meat], roast meat, birds’ meat, roasted egg, sheḥalim, shaving, bathing, [and consuming] cheese and liver. And there are some who say: even nuts. And others say: even cucumbers. A teaching from the house of R. Ishmael: Why are they [cucumbers] called kishu’in? Because they are harmful [kashin] like swords to a person’s whole body.