Ptisans

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Ptisane (Greek; Latin ptisana ) or "barley water" refers to a groats made from boiled barley barley or its decoction, which was used therapeutically in ancient times as a nutrient and remedy because of its slimy texture and easy digestibility.

Corpus Hippocraticum

In the Corpus Hippocraticum , the ptisane is treated in several writings, particularly frequently in On the diet for acute illnesses (Acut.) And On the illnesses II (Morb. II). Hippocrates of Kos describes the ptisane : best barley , mashed (Greek = πτίσσω) well cooked to a pulp. By driving this through a cloth, a juice can also be made. Both are referred to as ptisane , but also as ptisane porridge or ptisane juice. Hippocrates values ​​barley more than any other grain, but may warn against the use of ptisane . Starting the diet incorrectly can even lead to death.

Latin specialist literature

The Romans took over the ptisans , but did not give them the same rank. Aulus Cornelius Celsus mentions the beer-like remedy only a few times in his work De Medicina and Scribonius Largus in his pharmacological book Compositiones . Pliny knows a script by Hippocrates in praise of the ptisans or tisans . However, he prefers the alica res Romana , d. H. the Roman development of pearl barley from spelled .

The later Roman medicine writer Caelius Aurelianus mentions the ptisane about 50 times, but also disparagingly as too difficult to digest. Ptisane now seems to refer exclusively to the juice. When treating pleurisy , he writes:

Ptisanam igitur, quando medicamen biberit, statim superbibere.
"So he should drink the barley gruel when he has drunk his medicine."

Galen of Pergamon

Galen deals with the Corpus Hippocraticum in his writings . In the book of Hippocrates on the diet for acute illnesses and the commentary of Galen I (Hipp. De acut. Morb.) He quotes and assesses the text Acut. of Hippocrates. He also deals with the ptisane . However, he does not recommend it unconditionally, but explains that in different cases the juice or the porridge is given, sometimes this remedy is to be avoided entirely.

literature

  • Werner Golder: Hippocrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum. Würzburg 2007, p. 32.
  • Karl-Heinz Leven: Ancient medicine. A lexicon. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52891-0 , p. 737.
  • Gundolf Keil : "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: pp. 68 and 77–79.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Leven: Ancient medicine. A lexicon. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52891-0 , p. 737.
  2. ↑ Werner Golder: Hippokrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum. Würzburg 2007, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Hippocrates, Acut. XV.
  4. ↑ Hippocrates, Acut. VII.
  5. ↑ Hippocrates, Acut XVII.
  6. ↑ Lorenz Diefenbach : Glossarium latino-germanicum mediae et infimae aetatis , Frankfurt am Main: Joseph Baer 1857 and reprint Darmstadt 1968, p. 470.
  7. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 18, 75.
  8. ^ Pliny, Naturalis historia 22, 128.
  9. ↑ Caelius Aurelianus, celerum passionum 2, 116th
  10. ↑ Galen, Hippocratis de acutorum morborum victu liber et Galen commentarius 1, 18 (output Kühn, Vol. 15, Leipzig 1828, p 465, digitized ).