Azfar at-tib - “fragrant marigolds”

Essence.
These are clippings of a certain substance, similar to nails, with a pleasant, fragrant smell. They are used for fumigation. Dioscorides says:  “These are marigolds of the same kind as the fragments of shells which are brought from an island in the Indian Sea where spikenard grows. These include Kulzum marigolds and Babylonian marigolds, small, black; both have a good, fragrant smell.”

I think that Kulzum marigolds are those that are now called Koreish marigolds. They are said to stick to meat and skin. They sometimes end up in Aizab, and large numbers of them are brought from Mecca and imported through Jeddah. These marigolds have healing properties, cleanse and give the body a pleasant smell.

Choice.
The best "scented marigolds" are the whitish ones that come to Kulzum, Yemen and Bahrain. As for the Babylonian ones, they are black and very small. Incense sellers believe that the best marigolds are those from Bahraini, then Meccan ones, delivered to Jeddah.

Nature.
Hot and dry in the second degree; their dryness is almost close to the third degree.

Actions and properties.
This medicine is a thinner.

Organs of the head.
Fumigation with “fragrant marigolds” helps with epilepsy.

Eruption organs.
Vapors of “fragrant marigolds” bring to life women suffering from “suffocation of the uterus”; if you drink marigolds, no matter what kind they are, with vinegar, they make the stomach work.