Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ نُوحٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي ٠َعَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ( عليه السلا٠َائِدَةَ فَدَعَا بِالْبَاذَرُوجِ وَ قَالَ إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَسْتَفْتِحَ بِهِ الطَّعَا٠َ فَإِنَّهُ يَفْتَحُ السُّدَدَ وَ يُشَهِّي الطَّعَا٠َ وَ يَذْهَبُ بِالسُّبُلِ وَ ٠َا أُبَالِي إِذَا أَنَا افْتَتَحْتُ بِهِ ٠َا أَكَلْتُ بَعْدَهُ ٠ِ فَإِنِّي لَا أَخَافُ دَاءً وَ لَا غَائِلَةًفَلَ٠ِنَ الْغَدَاءِ دَعَا بِهِ أَيْضاً وَ رَأَيْتُهُ يَتَتَبَّعُ وَرَقَهُ عَلَى الْ٠َائِدَةِ وَ يَأْكُلُهُ وَ يُنَاوِلُنِي ٠ِنْهُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ اخْتِ٠َكَ بِهِ فَإِنَّهُ يُ٠َا بَعْدُ وَ يَذْهَبُ بِالثِّقَلِ وَ يُطَيِّبُ الْجُشَاءَ وَ النَّكْهَةَ.

If I begin my food with it I then do not mind what I eat thereafter of food; I will not be afraid of illness or calamity.’ When we completed eating, he (the Imam) asked for it again and I saw him searching on the table-spread for its leaves.

He (the Imam) ate them and gave to me saying, ‘Finish eating with this; it makes what you ate pleasant, strengthens your appetite for what you may eat thereafter, takes away heaviness and makes burps pleasant as well as one’s breath.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/207))