And it sends forth shoots of its own proper form. It changes the old form and descends; it nourishes as it is digested. Sometimes it alters the earlier form, and completely obscures the former ones.

Power of nutriment reaches to bone and to all the parts of bone, to sinew, to vein, to artery, to muscle, to membrane, to flesh, fat, blood, phlegm, marrow, brain, spinal marrow, the intestines and all their parts; it reaches also to heat, breath, and moisture.

Nutriment is that which is nourishing; nutriment is that which is fit to nourish; nutriment is that which is about to nourish.

The beginning of all things is one and the end of all things is one, and the end and beginning are the same.

And all the particular details in nourishment are managed well or ill; well if as aforesaid, ill if ordered in the opposite way to these.