[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans, the musical fruit....

[Terry Decker]

Avicenna (approx. 1000 CE) is referring to the properties of the unroasted
coffee bean for medical purposes.  Coffee beans as medicine pre-date
Avicenna by at least 100 years, being first referenced by Rhazes.  They
apparently were crushed and used in a powdered state.  Limited use as a
beverage is believed to begin around 250 years after Avicenna, while general
beverage use and cultivation in southern Arabia begins around 1450 CE.

Bear


>Is he referring to the coffee beans before they're roasted or something?
>--maire, coffee fiend, but not for the weak, sissy stuff....
>
>Terry Decker wrote:
>
>> And just for fun, I will point out that there is a question of the
position
>> of "bunchum" or "bunn" (coffee) in the humoral hierarchy, att least
>> according to Abu Ali Al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina (Avicenna), "As to
the
>> choice thereof, that of a lemon color, light, and of a good smell, is the
>> best; the white and the heavy is naught.  It is hot and dry in the first
>> degree, and, according to others, cold in the first degree.  It fortifies
>> the members, it cleans the skin, and dries up the humidities that are
under
>> it, and gives an excellent smell to all the body."
>>
>
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