Wen Qing is working on her Avicenna flashcards. In English, because it's her best common language with her study partner, and because it's good language practice. 

"Mildly aperiant foods: Soft eggs; potherbs; beet, mallows, cabbage, sorrell; shellfish soup. Moderately aperiant foods: milk whey boiled in water with salt; honey; elder tree leaves; polypody root (oakfern), two drams sprinkled on pickle or taken on a ptsian; broth of old cock taken with or without 2 drams of bastard saffron; aloes to the amount of 3 chickpeas taken at supper-time; dodder of thyme in wine, taken after a moderate supper. Strongly aperiant foods: dodder of thyme (one dram) in wine, infused in vinegar and honey, taken before breakfast in springtime."