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The healing month
The Sefer Taamei HaMinhagim (page 251) writes that our new month of Iyar is tried and tested as a time for refuah, healing, from the ailments and pains that may affect a person. Why is this so? He brings the Bnai Yisaschar, who teaches that most weakness and illness come from foods which do not comport with the persons nature or composition. The Rambam (Hilchos Deos 4:15) writes likewise. See also Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Chapter 32...