Afsantin - wormwood

Essence.
An herb similar to satara leaves it is bitter, astringent and pungent. Hunain says: “There are several types of wormwood:  Khorasan, oriental, imported from Jebel Lukam, Sus and Tarsus.” Other ancient doctors claim that it has five types:  Susa, Tarsus, Nabatean, Khorasan and Rum.

The Natabei species has a pleasant smell Generally speaking, it contains an earthy substance, by which it strengthens, and a volatile substance, which loosens and opens blockages.

Wormwood is one of the varieties of citvar wormwood and therefore some scientists call it “Rumian citvar wormwood.” Its squeezed juice is more potent than the leaves and is similar to horsemint juice.

Choice.
The best types of wormwood are Sussian and Tarsus they are yellow in color, and if you rub them, they smell like sabur. Young and wild wormwood should be preferred.

Nature.
Hot in the first degree, dry in the third. The squeezed juice is hottest. Some doctors believe that it is dry in the second degree, and this is most likely.

Actions and properties.
Wormwood is an opening and astringent medicine, and its astringent property is stronger than its bitterness. Nabatean wormwood binds more strongly and is less hot, so it does not remove mucus even from the stomach, and it is not used for this. Wormwood also dissolves. One of its properties is the ability to protect clothes from worms and harmful insects. It prevents the ink from changing color and prevents bugs from eating away at the paper.

Cosmetics.
Wormwood improves complexion, helps against “snake” and “fox” diseases and removes purple spots under the eyes and other places.

 Tumors and acne.
If you make a dough with water from bitter wormwood, it helps against hives.

Wounds and ulcers.
Wormwood in the form of a medicinal bandage or drink helps with internal hardening.

Organs of the head.
Wormwood dries out the head, and its squeezed juice causes headaches, but I think this is because it is harmful to the stomach. The vapors of wormwood decoction help with ear pain If you drink the decoction before drinking wine, it will help with a hangover. If you apply wormwood together with soda to the inside of the palate, it will be beneficial for “internal sore throat.” It is useful for tumors behind the ears, for pain in the ears and for leakage of fluids if you drink it with honey, it helps against sakta.

Organs of the eye.
Wormwood is useful for old inflammation of the eyes, especially Nabataean, if it is used to make a medicinal bandage for the area under the eye it also helps with the veil. If you make a medicinal bandage from bitter wormwood with maybukhtaj, it calms the beating in the eye, reduces swelling and is beneficial for hemorrhages in the eyeball.

Respiratory system.
Wormwood wine helps relieve tension under the cartilage of the false ribs.

Digestive organs.
Wormwood restores appetite, it is a wonderful, amazing medicine for appetite, if you drink its decoction and squeezed juice for ten days, three obols every day. Wormwood wine strengthens the stomach and has other beneficial effects, and wormwood itself, especially if you drink its squeezed juice for ten days, three uqiyas every day, helps against jaundice and dropsy. Wormwood with figs, soda and chaff flour in the form of medicinal dressings is useful They also make medicinal bandages on the spleen.

Sometimes medicinal dressings are made for these diseases from wormwood with figs, orris root flour and soda. It kills intestinal worms when boiled with lentils or rice and eaten. Squeezed wormwood juice is not good for the stomach Its stems are also harmful, especially for the mouth of the stomach, due to their salinity, with the exception of Batey wormwood. And if you mix wormwood juice with spikenard, it helps with stomach and abdominal pain.

Medicinal wormwood dressings are placed on the liver, stomach and side, and they help against pain in these organs. As for the liver and flanks, wormwood is used here in the form of a wax ointment with henna oil, and for the stomach - with rose oil or mixed with rose. Wormwood also helps against hardening of the mentioned organs.

Eruption organs.
Wormwood strongly stimulates urine and menstruation, especially if used in the form of suppositories with water sweetened with honey.

It removes bile, but is of no use against mucus, even that which stagnates in the intestines. They drink it in the form of an infusion or decoction in the amount of five to seven dirhams, and as it is - two dirhams. Drinking wormwood wine is also useful for kidney problems and cracks in the anus.

If you boil wormwood alone or with rice and drink it with honey, it kills intestinal worms and slightly relaxes the stomach. The same thing applies if you cook it with lentils. Wormwood wine also produces all these effects and also cleanses the blood vessels from bile and watery juice and drives them away.

Fevers.
Wormwood helps with old fever, especially its squeezed juice, which acts in the same way as squeezed sapling juice.

Poisons.
Wormwood helps against the bite of the sea dragon, scorpion and shrew and against hemlock poisoning if drunk with wine, as well as mushroom poisoning, especially if drunk with vinegar Spraying with wormwood drives away midges. If you dilute ink with wormwood juice, the mouse will not gnaw the book they wrote.

Substitutes.
It is replaced by an equal amount of Dubrovnik or Rumian citvar wormwood. To strengthen the stomach, take an equal amount of asarun and half the weight of myrobalans.