CHAPTER XXI
FORMING THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WORK, AND TREATING OF THE GOOD EFFECTS OF THE REGULATION OF EGGS AS FAVOURABLE TO THE COITUS
Know, O Vizir (God be good to you!), that this chapter contains the most useful instructions—how to increase the intensity of the coitus—and that the latter part is profitable to read for an old man as well as for the man in his best years and for the young man.
The Cheikh, who gives good advice to the creatures of God the Great! he the sage, the savant, the first of the men of his time, speaks as follows on this subject; listen then to his words.
He who makes it a practice to eat every day fasting the yolks of eggs, without the white part, will find in this ailment an energetic stimulant for the coitus. The same is the case with the man who during three days eats of the same mixed with onions.
He who boils asparagus,[1] and then fries them in fat,
- ↑ Note in the autograph edition.—The Arab text has heiloun. The medical dictionary of Abd el Rezeug says about heiloun: "Helioun and in placing the ia (in) more forward, making it heiloun, is in the medical, but not in the general sense, asparagus." So we have adopted this meaning, in preference to boiled meal as translated, and which meaning we could not find, although we searched carefully for it in the Arab books.
