Razi described the actions, advantages and characteristics of each kind of food and compared the deleteriousness of diet with the other. Ways for correcting diet through cheaply available sources were mentioned. Surmah was considered useful for diseases of the lungs, dessication of the intestines and flatulence in the stomach. Bokhara plum syrup was recommended in ailments relating to biliousness, excessive thirst and dryness. Starch sweet peeled almonds and sugar added to a linctus or laburnum were prescribed for the cleansing of the bileduct, alleviation of colic pains and distress generated in the alimentary tract and the liver canals. Among the cereals the gruels of barley and wheat were recommended useful in many diseases and in the production of blood and generation of bloom to the face as well as in calorifacient fevers and different kinds of diarrhoea. Gram aqua in conjunction with Cumin, black salt and Anethum arwa is useful in the control of excessive flatulence, dryness a the chest and colic pains, pulse aqua is prescribed for kidney and urinary tract Calculi. Peeled Faba Sativa beans useful for the stomach and obstructions in it. Use of beans facilitates the removal of the Phelgm, deleterious and putrid matter. Beside Faba Sativa, facilitates the flow of the acids that act as irritants in to common cold and the snotty Phlegm and mitigating cough.