Egyptian researcher Hussam al-Hariri published a medical prescription written in Cairo in the year 1200. It is handwritten by the famous Jewish physician and philosopher Moses ibn Maimonides, famous for being the personal physician of the leader Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi.
The document, written in Arabic Judaism, shows a recipe which is a mixture of glucose, lemon juice, spearmint and other substances.
The recipe also included a command from Maimonides to avoid unripe dates, grapes, green almonds, locust beans, green beans, carrots, and vinegar.
He also recommended the patient to eat raisins, pistachios, figs and walnuts during his illness.
The medical prescription since the time of Saladin
Who is Maimonides?
Moses bin Maimonides, or Maimonides as he is known in the West, is a Jewish scientist, physician, astronomer and philosopher who lived in the court of the Islamic State.
Maimonides was born in Cordoba in 1135 AD and died in Cairo in 1204 AD and belonged to a North African Jewish family from Morocco known as the Al-Baz family, and his family moved in 1159 to the Moroccan city of Fez, and studied there at the University of Al-Qarawiyyin, then moved to Egypt during the Ayyubid era. .
In the mid-1950s, Musa bin Maimon appointed a personal physician to one of the royal court associates, then rose to the post of personal physician to Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, ruler of Egypt and Syria at the time, and wrote many books and publications, including a paper entitled “The Oath of Physicians”.