Sweet wine, strong wine, white wine, and black wine should be administered in serious illnesses according to the following criteria:
Sweet wine weighs less on the head than strong wine and affects the mind less, facilitates bowel movements more than the other, but causes swelling of the spleen and liver.
They are not recommended for people who have problems with bile because they make them thirsty, create gases in the upper part of the intestines, and are not hostile to their lower part, depending on the amount of gases. Because the gases that sweet wine creates are almost not released at all, but remain in the area of the intestine below the ribs.
In general, it is less diuretic than strong white wine, but it facilitates the expulsion of sputum more.
In people who are thirsty it is less expectorant than other wines, but it facilitates expectoration in people who are not thirsty.
I have already pointed out most of the most important positive and negative elements of white strong wine, speaking of sweet wine. Passing more easily than the other through the bladder and as it is diuretic and laxative, it can often prove beneficial in serious illnesses, because even if in other respects it is not as suitable by nature as sweet wine, the cleansing of the bladder that it causes, if done properly, is life-saving.
Blonde and black astringent wines can be used in serious illnesses in the following cases: if there is no headache, if the mind has not been disturbed, if there is no difficulty in expelling sputum or retention of urine, and if the stools are rather liquid and give the impression that they contain scrapings of flesh, in these and similar cases white wine should be substituted.
We must also know that these wines harm all the upper parts of the body and the area of the bladder less when they are more diluted with water and benefit the intestines more when they are more uninhibited.
HIPPOCRATES series of articles :
HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET I
HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET II – Foods containing flesh (meat, fish, seafood)
HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET III – Fruits
HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET IV – Satiety
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