Furbiyun - milky juice of euphorbium

Essence.
This is a sharp resin. The strength of the furbiyun changes after three or four years. Old furbilyoun has a reddish tint and only blooms with difficulty in olive oil, but fresh one is different from it in every respect. Some say: “The power of furbiyun is preserved if you put it in a vessel along with peeled fava beans.”

Choice.
A good furbiyun is young, clean, yellow, reddish with a pungent odor and very pungent. And another furbiyun is fake, with an admixture of anzarut and gum arabic.

Properties.
Furbiyun purifies; it has a rarefied, burning, cleansing power. Young furbiyun warms more strongly than the resin of the stinking ferula, although in general there is no resin similar to the resin of the stinking ferula in terms of its warming effect.

Tools with joints.
It is mixed with some wine made with spices, and it helps against inflammation of the sciatic nerve and in one day sheds damaged periosteum. However, you should protect the meat surrounding the bones by covering it with a warm, waxy ointment. It is rubbed with oil for paralysis and numbness of the limbs, and this helps a lot.

Organs of the eye.
If you take furbiyun in eye powder, it cleanses the eyes, but the burning sensation from it is felt all day long. Therefore, it is mixed with honey and other thick compounds.

Eruption organs.
Furbiyun helps against yellow water and cold kidneys and brings kulanj to those suffering. At one time it is given to drink three obols with some pleasant-smelling seeds and in water sweetened with honey.

The Khuzistani people, by the way, say: “Furbiyun strongly compresses the mouth of the uterus, so that it even prevents abortion drugs from miscarrying the fetus.” It is said to expel the sticky mucus that lingers in the thighs, back and intestines.

Poisons.
Some say that if someone is bitten by a viper or some other reptile, so that the skin on the head or near the head is torn and the bones of the skull are exposed, then they put crushed emu resin in the wound and stitch it up, and nothing bad will happen to the person bitten .

Three dirhams of furbiyun kill within three days, causing ulceration of the stomach and intestines.