Fieldfares and strengthening food

Meaning

The account closes the immediate recovery episode by describing special strengthening food, including what the translation renders as fieldfares and other birds. This is a small but important distinction between disappearance of pain and restoration of strength: the patient has already reported weakness after the first relief. The meal returns him to social company as well as bodily nourishment. The vocabulary contributes to the story’s staging of recovery; it is not a general dietary recommendation for the illnesses named elsewhere in the episode.