Commentary for Gittin 138:5
לפירחא דליבא ליתי תלת ברושייאתא דחיטי ונישטרינהו בדובשא וניכול ונישתי אבתרייהו חמרא חייא
which has been made less than forty days before, and eat it and wash it down with wine well diluted. Said R. Aha from Difti to Rabina: This will make his heart palpitate all the more! — He replied: I was speaking of heaviness of heart. For palpitations of the heart he should take three cakes of wheat and streak them with honey and eat them and wash them down with strong wine. For pressure of the heart he should take the size of three eggs of mint and an egg of camon and an egg of sesame and eat them. For pain in the stomach he should take three hundred long pepper grains and every day drink a hundred of them in wine. Rabin of Naresh<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Identical with Nars on the canal of the same name, on the East bank of the Euphrates. Obermeyer op. cit. p. 307.] ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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