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Babylonian beer in Talmud (1)

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07 Crafts and economy
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


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Jewish philosophers and scholars

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Talmud mentions the Babylonian beer as an effective remedy for constipation and diarrhoea.

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 110a:
What is water of palm trees? — Rabbah b. Beruna said: There are two tali-palms in the west [Palestine] and a spring of water issues from between them. The first cup [thereof] loosens, the second causes motion, and the third passes out just as it enters. ‘Ulla said: I myself drank Babylonian beer and it is more efficacious than these [waters]; provided, however, that one had discontinued [drinking] it for forty days.

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Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 110a

Bibliography

Geller 2000, 22n60Geller, Mark J. “An Akkadian Vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: S. Kottek and M. Horstmanshoff (eds.). From Athens to Jerusalem. Medicine in Hellenized Jewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing 2000, 13-32.

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