Médicaments et aliments : approche ethnopharmacologique = Medicines and foods : ethnopharmacological approach

In this paper, we take up to analysing, through study of a moroccan manuscript in dietetics, the Ibn Chaqrun's Urjuzah (XVIIIth century), and through actual moroccan traditions in the matter of foods and nutritional rules, some main principles of Arabo-Islamic dietetics, and particularly : the classification of foods in accordance with theory of humours; the notion of corrective effects exerted by some foods and drugs. Moreover, we have recognized the five principal dietetical systems developed by Arabo-Islamic physicians : dietetics of physic and sexual performance, dietetics of traveller, dietetics of temperance and sobriety including mystic abstinence and nomadic way of life, dietetics of intelligence and memory, medical dietetics proper. At last, we have studied close relationships existing among Arabs in general, and Moroccan people especially, between dietetics and culinary art, through some examples. (Résumé d'auteur