Essence.
These are drupes in the form of small hazelnuts, covered with a thin black skin. If you squeeze them, they split into two parts and contain black and yellow seeds with a pleasant taste and fragrant smell. The leaves of the laurel are the same as those of the myrtle, but only larger, and its fruit is red. Laurel grows in mountainous areas, and its strength is concentrated in its fruits and leaves.
Nature.
The laurel drupes are the hottest, but the bark is the least hot; in general it is hot and dry to the second degree.
Actions and properties.
Laurel drupes have a loosening property, and it warms the whole; its drupes are hotter than its leaves. All parts of the laurel are very warm and dry. Its drupes are the most effective, but the bast is weaker and less hot. Bay oil is hotter than nut oil.
Cosmetics.
The bahak is smeared with laurel and wine.
Tumors and acne.
Laurel with bread and oatmeal helps against hot tumors.
Tools with joints.
It helps with all kinds of joint pain, and its oil eliminates exhaustion.
Organs of the head.
Laurel, as well as laurel oil, resolve headaches and help with cold pain in the ear. Laurel is good for hearing and helps against ringing in the ears and catarrh.
Breast organs.
Laurel in the form of a medicine for licking with honey or an ointment helps with shortness of breath and “standing breathing”, and is also useful when excess leaks into the lungs. A medicine is prepared from it to be licked with honey for ulcers in the lungs and “standing breathing.” Its drupes are especially useful.
Nutritional organs.
Laurel oil is useful for pain in the liver if given to drink with fragrant wine. Its bark also acts, but laurel bark, like drupes, causes relaxation of the stomach walls and induces vomiting.
Eruption organs.
Bay oil causes nausea and vomiting and drives urine and menstruation. A decoction of its leaves, if sat in it, is beneficial for diseases of the bladder and uterus. At one time, two dirhams are given to drink for relaxation in water sweetened with honey or in sikanjubin. If you drink two dirhams of its bark, it crushes stones and kills the fruit with its bitterness, surpassing that of other medicines. At the same time, nine qirats are given to drink at one time. Its drupes also crush stones.
Fevers.
Its oil in the form of rubbing is useful for goose bumps.
Poisons.
Laurel with wine is given to drink against a scorpion sting, and it is good to apply it fresh as a medicinal bandage for hornet and bee stings. In general, laurel is an antidote to any drunk poison.
Substitutes.
Its replacement is thyme leaves; and instead of laurel leaves, its drupes serve.