Karaz - gummy acacia

Essence.
Dioscorides says that there are people who call it acacia and people who call it acacia. It is the squeezed juice of a plant native to and outside Egypt, and is a thorny shrub reaching the size of a tree. Its branches and branches do not stand straight, the flowers are white. Its fruits are similar to white lupine and are enclosed in a shell; Squeezed juice is extracted from them, which is dried in the shade. If the fruits are ripe, then the color of the squeezed juice is black; if they are unripe, then the color of the squeezed juice is to some extent similar to the color of the yacht. Choose that juice, the color of which has a hint of the color of the acacia and which, if mixed with other acacias, gives them a pleasant smell. Some people mix acacia leaves with the fruits and extract the juice from both together. Gum acacia is also extracted from this prickly plant. Sometimes acacia is washed for use in eye medicines. To do this, they grind it with water, drain off what floats up, and do this continuously until the water becomes clear. And then they make cakes from it.

Sometimes akakiyu is burned in an unfired clay pot, which is placed in the oven until the pot itself is fired; and sometimes it is roasted on coals, which are fanned. A good gum of this thorny bush is one that looks like worms, and the color resembles transparent glass and does not have any admixture of wood. The second one after the good one is white, and the one that is so dirty that it resembles rathiyanaj. bad, and its strength glues and suppresses the pungency of hot medicines if mixed with them.

There is also another type of acacia tree that grows in Cappadocia, similar to the one that grows in Egypt, but it is much smaller and succulent. This acacia tree is studded with thorns like arrowheads, and its leaves resemble those of rue. In autumn, it bears seeds in double pods, each of which has three or four compartments, where seeds smaller than lentils sit. This acacia is also astringent, and its squeezed juice is extracted from the tree as it is. The strength of this acacia is weaker than that of the acacia growing in Egypt; this species is not suitable for use in medications administered into the eye. We only mentioned this type of acacia here and explained its essence because there are people who call it caraz. I heard from faithful people from the inhabitants of Kerman that they call the squeezed juice of karaz akakiya. However, we have already finished describing all its actions and qualities related to the human body. What we talked about here has already been said earlier in the section on the letters alif.