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More Folk Remedies: Stones, Fevers, and Diet

More Folk Remedies: Stones, Fevers, and Diet

Part of Misc · 23:16

Continues reading through an old home-remedy manuscript -- treatments for urinary blockage, fever, and dietary advice on moderation in eating.

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Stone Remedy for Urinary Blockage

should take 60 of times on this side of the foot and 60 times on that side of the foot. לצמירתא, if you have a stone when when you have to go to the bathroom there's a stone blocking there. נייתי, you should bring תלת נטופייתא מישחא דכופרא, three drops of oil that comes the leftovers of the tar. It's called עיטראן sometimes. ותלת נטופייתא איסרא דכרתי, and three drops when you take the when you squeeze out the כרישין, yeah that that vegetable, ותלת נטופייתא דחמרא נקידא, and three drops of clear wine. ולישדינהו, you should put it לאיש באמה ולאשה בבית המקום. If a man has it, to put it by the man in that place, and by the woman you should put it if that she has a problem, it's all if there's a stone that's blocking the the going to the bathroom. ואי לא, if you can't do this, לייתי לייתי אונה דזיקא, take one of the cloves of נרד. We have נרד וכרכם, we have one of the spices, it's called נרד. I don't know what English word for נרד is. What? Where are you up to? You said נרד? Yeah. Doesn't say נרד, it says זיקא. Flask. Flask? Okay, whatever it is. וליתליה לאיש באמה ולאשה בדדין. By a man, hang it up on his אבר, and by if it's by a woman, hang it up on her breasts. ואי לא, if you

Kidney Stone Alternative Treatment

can't do that either, is this בכליות? אבן בכליות? Yeah, it doesn't say כליות, but מן הסתם it means בכליות. It says אבן במקום השתן, so מן הסתם that's the כליות, I imagine so. It doesn't say that. ואי לא, and if you can't do that, לייתי חוטא דשזירתיה דשוטה דומה בת דומה, take a a a a string that a woman that is suspected in not being proper, and her mother was suspected of not being proper, take a string that she made, וליתליה, and hang it up, לאיש באמה ולאשה בדדין. By the man, on his place, that that אבר, and by the woman, in her breasts. ואי לא, if he can't do that, לייתי, you should take כינה דזכר ונקבה. Bring a lice, a louse, a זכר and a נקבה, וליתליה, and hang it up, לאיש באמה ולאשה בבית המקום. On a man, in his place, and by a woman, by her place. Take a lice over there? Yeah. וכי משתין, and when you go when you go to the bathroom, נישתין You have a louse. It's not they're saying you had to how to have a louse a lice. People had lice. Yeah, yeah, had to take the lice off of them. Yeah, it was easy to get. Yeah, it was. Everybody had it. Everybody had it. Yeah. וכי משתין, when you go to the bathroom, נישתין אסיסנא יבישתא בצינורא דדשא ונפתח עיניה ונפקא מיניה. You should make on a on a branch of a סנה, of a All right, the lice even works nowadays. Yeah? Do they use it nowadays? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, should take and do it on on a branch of a סנה יבש, of a dry סנה, like the thorn. Thorn of a סנה, by the edge of the door, and be careful with the stone that comes out of it, that you keep that stone that comes out of it, דמעלי לכולהו צימרי, and that helps for all kinds of sicknesses that has to do with heat, with fever. You

Stone for Fever – Crush and Drink

crush it, put it in water and drink it. Huh? Crush it, put it in water and drink it. That's what it says there? Fever, yeah. Here it doesn't say that, okay. Or what stone do you, which stone? Well, we're talking we're still talking about the stone. Yeah, where? You say when it come out? Yeah. When the stone come out? Yeah, keep that stone, and that stone is good. Like the placenta, that they use it for... The placenta, yeah. But this stone, why is this stone good? It depends what it's made out of, what it is, okay. ומודנא זכר. לצימרא ברייתא, if you have a superficial fever, I don't know what that means, inside you don't feel hot, but outside you feel hot, לייתי תלתא גריבי סופלא, bring take three סאה, which is a lot, of the pits from the dates, ותלתא גריבי טרפא דאדרא, and three סאה of the leaves of a tree which is called אדרא. It says in Gemara, there's a tree, it says אי רצה what the Gemara says, if you want to be rich, you plant an אדרא tree. Very valuable tree. Oh, what is it in English? It says, no, it says elder. Alder, okay. וניבשלינהו כל חד וחד לחודיה, cook each one separately, וליתיב בינייהו, and sit in between them, וליספינהו בתרתי משכלי, and put them into two bowls, וניתי פתורא ונינח עילויה, bring a table and put a table on one of the bowls, וניקים עילויה האי וליתיב עילויה האי, and stand the the other one, put the the table on top of this bowl, and and put and put the other bowl, take the take the table and the bowl, and you sit on the table, I don't know, וממלא האי וליתיב עילויה האי, and from this, oh, take from here later and do it over again the other way, sit on one and this let it be on the bowl, and then you sit on the other. עדי נפיק ביה הבלא, till steam will come out of you, means you'll get very hot, וליסחי מנייהו, and then wash off from it, and that'll help. וכי שתי, when you drink, ממיא דאדרא לישתי, you should drink the water from this tree אדרא, having the water with the the leaves of the tree אדרא. But don't drink from the, it's not telling you to drink the water when you put in these pits of the dates in the water, that's not the water he's talking about, because if you drink from that, משום דמעקרי, this could make a person not, sterile, not to be able to have children. Where is it? Rashi says in Shabbos the water that you bathe in you should drink afterwards? Shabbos 41a. I ever heard. I was wondering if that's the same, like from tub water? You bathe in, you should drink it. Yeah, it's because Beneficial to one who bathes in warm water should drink from that water, Rashi says. Afterwards. ולצימרא גוואי, if you have fever inside, ליתי שבע בוני דסילקי משבע משרי, take three handfuls of תרד, from from seven, seven handfuls I mean, from seven ערוגות, seven different plants, different lines of סלק, סלק, beds, from תרד. תרד? Yeah. סלקא. ונישלקיהו באפרייהו, and you should cook them together with its own sand, וניכלינהו. ונישתי אטרף אדרא בשיכרא, and you should drink the same thing again from the leaves of this אדרא in beer. Mix it with beer and you drink it, that helps. אי נמי ענבי תלא במיא, or drink grapes which are hanging on a tree, soak them in water and drink that. לחזיזא, if you

Wheat Oil Treatment for Skin Blockage

have a certain what's, in the Chumash it's called ילפת, it's a sickness of the skin. ליתי שבע חיטי אזניאתא, bring seven big wheats, וניקלינהו אמרא חדתא, and you should roast them on a new piece of metal, on a new barbecue I guess. ונפיק משחא מנייהו, then when the the oil, the fats that comes out, ונישוף, you should smear with that fat on top of your skin and that'll get, wheat oil. רב סימא בר אשי, רב סימא בר אשי עבד ליה לההוא עכו״ם this, he did to a goy this cure לדבר אחר, not for this, but he did it for something else. Something else, the word דבר אחר in in Gemara means צרעת. They don't want to say the word צרעת, it has to do with this week's parsha, Metzora, yeah. ואיסי, and he got cured, so it even helped for this also. Why does it say for an עכו״ם, but why wouldn't it say it? With צרעת? Yeah, what? בכלל we don't call the Gemara doesn't like to use the word צרעת, דבר אחר we call it. Even for a goy? It's not talking about who, they don't wanna, like nowadays we don't want to say yene machle, we don't say the word. So there the Gemara didn't say צרעת, it was a terrible thing. You do it and and it's only it's they only call it דבר אחר. That's why the Gemara says you shouldn't eat meat and fish, קשה לדבר אחר, cause it could harm you, could make you צרעת. But צרעת is called דבר אחר. אמר שמואל, Shmuel said, האי מאן דמחליה באלונתא דפרסאי, if someone got hit with a like a a stick, a spear, a spear of the פרסיים, what they do is they put chemical weapons, they put poison on it, yeah, that's like chemical warfare, they put poison on top of it, מיחייא לא חיי, so that you should know that he'll never live from this, he'll definitely die, but עד הכא והכא, in the middle, till till he dies, ניספו ליה בישרא שמינא אגומרא וחמרא חייא. Eat fat meat that was roasted on coal and raw wine without water. אפשר דחייא פורתא. Mimela, if you eat that, you'll live a little bit, ומפקיד לביתיה, so you'll have enough time to come home and give your last will and testimony to your family. Otherwise, you'll die right away. Fatty meat and strong wine have a lot of uses. You notice that, right? Torah learning and Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. אמר, אמר Rabbi Yehuda bar Avin, Rabbi Yehuda bar Avin said, האי מאן דבלע זיבורא, if someone someone swallowed a a wasp? Yeah, like a like a Hornet, hornet. Hornet or or what's it called, a bee? Bee and not a I meant a wasp, yeah. מיחייא לא חיי, you will not live from it. עד דהכא והכא, in the middle, in time, in other words, till you're till you die, but you want to have time till you die to be able to come home, נשקייה רביעתא דחלא שמזא. You drink a רביעית of vinegar, strong vinegar. אפשר דחייא פורתא, you might live a little bit, ומפקיד לביתיה, so you'll have enough time to come home and give your will to your family. אמר Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, אכל בשר שור בלפת, if a person ate meat from an ox with לפת, With relish? Relish, yeah. ולן, with relish, relish, yeah. ולן באור הלבנה בלילי י״ד וט״ו בתקופת תמוז, and you slept in the outside under the the moon the night of the 14th of תמוז or the night of the 15th of תמוז, אחזיה אחילו. So you will get a certain קדחת, you will get a certain fever, a certain more than just a fever. קדחת, what's in English? It doesn't say? Because it's going to talk about it. A קדחת is high fever, but and you shake from it. It's it's this is what could happen. תניא, we said in the ברייתא, הממלא כריסו, if someone eats too much, fills up his stomach too much מכל דבר, anything that's good, but if he fills up too much, אחזיה אחילו, you will get the same אחילו, you will get this sickness which is called אחילו, which is a kind of קדחת. אמר Rav Pappa, Rav Pappa said, אפילו מילא כריסו מתמרי, even if you fill yourself up from dates, so then also you'll get the sickness. פרעגט די Gemara, פשיטא. It's it's why why would we tell it even if you do it from that? If he said anything, so why would we think this would be different? די Gemara answers, salkah da'atech amina, I would think שהרי, דאמר מר, since we learned once before, תמרי has a ma'alah. When you eat dates, it has a certain ma'alah. What does it do? So it says a few things it does: משבען, ומשחנן, ומשלשלן, ומאשרן, ולא מפנקן. Well, it means like this: makes you full. If you eat dates, it fills you up. You know, it says some it tells them when they came to בבל they used to eat a lot of dates and and it was cheap also. So it fills you up, it makes you warm, it makes you have shilshul, diarrhea, and it makes you gives you koach, and it doesn't make you very sensitive. Sometimes when you eat certain things it makes your body sensitive. It doesn't make sensitive. So lichorah, so it would sound that the eating dates is good. So eima, I would think lo, that by eating, when we said what you eat and anything too much is no good, but not dates, because dates is very good. That's why ka mashma lan, he has to tell us that even if you eat dates it's also no good. Then די Gemara says, מאי אחילו? What happened to Rabbi Tarfon? With Tarfon? Huh? Rabbi Tarfon always sucked that over... Yeah, yeah, dates, dates. Yeah, at night he got he came there, he ate a lot and... He got sick, right? Sick, and sick, yeah. So we said, what does this do if you eat too much? You get אחילו. So we said before it's a kind of fever, but what is, Gemara asks, מאי אחילו? What's אחילו? אמר רבי אלעזר, Rabbi Elazar said, אש של עצמות, the fire of the bones. So די Gemara asks, מאי אש של עצמות? What's the fire of the bones? אמר אביי, אשתא דגרמי. That the your bones burn you. You you you have a heat in your bone. What what what does it nowadays, what would we call it, such thing the bones? Fever that consumes the marrow. מאי אסותיה? Arthritis? It burns? Feels like it burns? It hurts, but I don't know if it burns. I don't know. I don't know. Those people, the bones burn. מאי אסותיה? What is the cure? אמר אביי, Abaye said, אמרה לי אם, my mother said. It wasn't really his mother. We know Abaye didn't have a mother, because she died at birth. So his father I think died before and his mother died at birth. That's why he's called Abaye. Abaye is an abbreviation. There's a pasuk that says אשר בך ירוחם יתום, because he was a יתום, but he had this lady who raised him and he called her my mother. Did she have other children that we know about? Oh, she, yes. Okay. So she said to me like this: אביי מלשון אבא? אה? Called him Abba. אביי מלשון אבא. Who called him Abba? Rabbah, Rabbah bar Nachmani, eppes. יא. Abaye. So who called him, who called him Abba? The people called him? I think eppes, something, I know what you say, eppes also Rabbah bar Nachmani also had to do with he was a, I don't remember, you're right. Something, I don't know, עפעס, עפעס מיט לשון אבא, יא. So he said,

Mother’s Advice: Prolonged Medicine for Bone Fever

my mother told me like this: when it comes to take, drinking medicine, so there are some תלתא that you have to take for three days. And ודשבע, some you take for seven days. ושתריסר, some you have to take for 12 days. והאי, to take the the medicine for אחילו, you have to take it עד דמסתעי, you have to take it no days, just take it and take it and take it till you get cured. Like an antibiotic. אה? Antibiotic. That it has a certain time, time. They tell you to finish it. To finish it, but here it's not to finish, here you could do till you get cured. In other words, sometimes it'll go faster, sometimes it'll go slower. Another thing she said, כולהו שקייני, all medicines that you drink, אליבא ריקנא, you should take it on an empty stomach. Don't eat before you drink it. והאי, this special medicine that you take for this אחילו, בתר דאכיל ושתי, you have to take it after you eat and drink. ועייל לבית הכסא, and then go to the bathroom. ונפיק, and you go out, ומשי ידיה, and you wash your hands, and then you take it. ומייתי ליה בונא דשיצא טלחא, fit טלפחא? טלפחא? You don't have to wash your hands after going in the bathroom? No, not... And you have to, you should bring a full hand of this plate, thing that's called שיצא, that's made from lentils and salt, I don't know, does it have a name? Porridge. Porridge, yeah, porridge is not a name, it's like a mixture. ובונא דחמרא עתיקא, and a handful of old wine, ונגבלינהו בהדי הדדי, kneaded, mix it together, וניכלינהו, eat that. וניכריך בסדיניה, and wrap yourself around with a sheet that should keep you get you warm, וניגני, and you should sleep that way. ולא לוקמיה עד דיקאים מנפשיה, no one should wake him up till he wakes up himself. Why? Because when he's going to sleep he's going to sweat, and this, and if you wake him up it's going to stop the sweating, so you want him to sweat all the way to get this out of his system. וכי קאי, and when he does get up, נשקליה סדיניה מיניה, take off his sheet from him. Take it off right, right away, I guess. ואי לא, if you don't take it off, הדר עליה, the sickness will come back. I guess because it's it's stuck into the sheet, so as soon as it's over, get rid of the sheet, take off the sheet. The sheet's probably all wet. Everything's all wet, you can get cold. All wet, yeah, yeah, could be. Sounds like a good, sounds like a good remedy, yeah, yeah, okay. Let him sweat it out. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער: אמר ליה אליהו לרב נתן,

Eating One‑Third and Leaving One‑Third Empty

Eliyahu said to רב נתן, אכול, you should eat, שליש, only eat so you get filled a third. ושתה שליש, and drink a third on top of that. So now, so now it's two-thirds. Okay. והנח שליש, so here you have empty, your stomach is empty for a third. Therefore, why do you have to leave it empty? לכשתכעוס, when you get angry and it stretches out somehow your stomach, תעמוד על מילואך, it won't platz, because I guess when you get angry it's it contracts the the stomach, I don't know. You lose your appetite. And m'meila, if you ate full and now you're going to get angry, it'll it'll contract and it'll platz, it'll be too much in. So if you leave a third, so you leave a third for getting angry. Yeah. The eitzah is don't get angry, right? That's another eitzah, don't get angry, yeah. תנא רב חייא, Rav Chiya learned, הרוצה שלא יבא לידי חולי מעיים, someone wants to be careful not to get sick in the stomach, יהא רגיל בטיבול, you should get used to when you eat, you should dip your your food in in the dip. Those days a dip was or wine or vinegar, you should dip בקייץ ובחורף, ובחורף, you should do it summer, winter. Another thing he said, סעודתך שהנאתך ממנה, if you

Avoid Overindulgence in Enjoyable Meals

have a סעודה that you have hana'ah from, that you enjoy, משוך ידך ממנה, stay away from it, because you might eat too much. And if you eat too much, it's it's not healthy to eat too much. Maybe it means iskafya, if it's geshmak, don't eat it, probably iskafya. אה? No, anything, anything you have hana'ah. No, he says any, not davka sweet, anything that you like and enjoy, make sure to be careful, stay away because you're going to eat too much, that's the pshat, you're going to eat too much. To not overindulge. Yeah. How about Shabbos? אה? Shabbos? Also you shouldn't eat too much. Too much it's... No, he said don't say too much. They stay a bit the crowd. can have no hana'ah of food? No, he doesn't say that. He says, pull yourself away on time. Take away when it's on time. Another thing, ואל תשהה עצמך בשעה שאתה צריך לנקביך, don't hold yourself back when you have to go to the bathroom. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער, אמר מר עוקבא, Mar Ukva said, האי מאן דשתי טיליא חיורא, if someone drinks white wine which is not good, bad wine, also as a ויתק. Yeah, you'll get ויתק. It's a certain weakness. Feeble. What? Feebleness. What, oh weakness, okay. אמר רב חסדא, Rav Chisda said, ששים מיני חמרא הוו, there are sixty types of wine. I mean nowadays there are five hundred or ten thousand, I don't know. מעליא דכולהו, the best of them all is סומקא ריחבניה. It's red wine that has a good smell, that's the best wine. גריעא דכולהו, the worst of them all is טיליא חיורא, this bad white wine. I don't know which which one is bad, but I guess... אמר רב יהודה, Rav Yehuda said, האי מאן דיתיב בציפרא דניסן גבי נורא, whoever sits in the morning of the month of Nisan by the fire, ושאיף משחא, and he smears himself with oil, ונפיק ויתיב בשמשא, and he goes out to sit in the sun, also as a ויתק, so the same weakness will happen one. It's something that you shouldn't be doing. Go and try to get a tan in Nisan, he says. Huh? Go and sit in front of the fire, then you can try to get a tan. Right? Goes out and sit in the sun. Puts oil on, suntan lotion. Yeah, and he'll... You'll get weak. Yeah. Yeah, okay, we'll two minutes. תנו רבנן, הקיז דם ושמש מיטתו, if someone let blood out and then had relations, הויין ליה בנים ויתקין, your children that will be born from that relation will be weak. Because you're weak, and I guess it'll make... הקיזו שניהם ושמשו, both, not only one, both the husband and the wife took let blood, הויין להו בנים בעלי ראתן, they'll be so weak. It's called בעלי ראתן, all ראתן people, it's a kind of sickness, have a have a certain שרץ in the brain, whatever it's a... We learned this, no? Yeah, this we learned before. אמר רב פפא, Rav Pappa said, לא אמרו, this that we said, אלא דלא טעים מידי. This whole thing that we said that

Intercourse After Menstruation Without Eating

it's bad, is if after you let blood you had relations, but you didn't eat anything in between. אבל טעים מידי, if you ate something, לית לן בה, it doesn't apply. אמר רב... Ulla said, בא מן הדרך ושמש מיטתו, if you come from a trip and that's when you do שמש מיטתו, הויין ליה בנים ויתקין, you'll have this this weak kids. Let's see Okay, we'll stop here. The maaseh with R'' Yehoshua ben Levi. סם המות, אה? R'' Yehoshua ben Levi. About ראתן. Yeah, where the בעלי ראתן, he studied and wrapped himself with the talit, the whole idea, yeah. He got the name. He came to Gan Eden, and he gave him the sword. That was also Gittin, no? Is it Gittin or right before? Before, in Ketubot. Ketubot? No, בעל... Ketubot, I think. Oh, yeah? Okay. Shkoiach, shkoiach. Almost six. That's why we learned it twice. We learned it at Shabbos and Yeah, yeah. Have a good

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