There are many kinds of fish, the best of which is the most delicious, the best scented, moderate in size, which has fine scales, the softest meat, which lives in fresh water that flows on pebbles and which eat plants and not the organic waste. The best areas for the fish to live are those with the freshest water that runs through rocks, then the areas that have sandy ground, void of filth or wastes and which are mildly calm and exposed to the sun and wind.
Sea fish are also soft and delicious. The meat of sea fish that has soft skin is cold and wet, difficult to digest and produces excessive amounts of phlegm, but produces acceptable temperament, increase semen production / fertility and suits hot conditions.
The best kind of salted fish is the most recently salted. Salted fish is hot and dry, and the older they get, the hotter and drier they become. Silurid (a species of catfish) is very viscous, and the Jews do not eat this type of fish. Yet, soft Silurid meat softens the stomach, and when it is salted, kept and then eaten, it will clear the windpipe and make the voice finer. When it is ground and used as an external ointment, it will extract the wastes that accumulate inside the body.
Sitting in the salty water of Silurid relieves the effects of newly formed ulcers and extracts the harmful substances to the surface. Salty water of Silurid relieves Sciatic nerve ailment when one is injected with it.
The best part of fish meat is closer to the tail, and the soft / lofty fish meat produces fatness and flesh.
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