Karm - grapevine

Essence.
Dioscorides says: “The wild and mountain vine has long shoots, like those carried by the domestic vine. Its leaves are the same as those of the garden nightshade, but wider, and the flowers are covered with hairs. The fruits form clusters and turn red when ripe, the berries are round, and the leaves are eaten as soon as they grow.

Properties.
The ash of its shoots is included in cauterizing medicines, and the oil of the grapevine is similar to rose oil, but lacks its laxative properties. The grape must oil warms and promotes ripening, and the wild grapevine blossoms are strongly astringent.

Cosmetics.
Grapevine tears are applied to “ant” warts. The wild grapevine reduces freckles and bruises, but the domestic grapevine is weak in this regard. Wildvine tears with olive oil can sometimes cause hair loss, especially those taken from fresh shoots while they are burning. Grapevine oil is the strongest of all oils.

Wounds and ulcers.
The tear of the vine is good for jarab and lichen, and the fruit of the wild vine prevents inflammation of wounds.

Tools with joints.
The ash from the squeezed grapevine with vinegar is useful for “straining nerves”, and the ash of its shoots with olive oil is used for muscle ruptures and relaxation of joints. Sometimes they drink a water infusion of grapevine ash to treat a bruise from a fall.

Oil with grape must is good for pain in the joints, muscles and nerves and for exhaustion.

Organs of the head.
The leaves and tendrils of the vine are used as a medicinal dressing for hot pain. The root of the black and white wild vine is one of the medicines that is good for clearing dirt from the ears; it refers to medications that help against deafness. Wild grapevine peel with honey cures bleeding gums.

Organs of the eye.
The leaves of the vine with barley oatmeal are applied as a medicinal bandage on eye tumors, and this prevents fluids from leaking into it.

Respiratory and chest organs.
The squeezed juice of the leaves of garden grapevines, as well as the fruits of wild grapes in the form of a drink, is given for hemoptysis.

Nutritional organs.
The leaves and tendrils of wild grapes with barley oatmeal are used as a medicinal dressing for swelling and inflammation of the stomach, and the squeezed juice of its leaves is useful for stomach pain from fever. The root of the wild vine is sometimes drunk with water or wine, and this helps against dropsy and drives away water. And the fruits of the wild grapevine are good for the stomach and help against nausea, heartache and acidity caused by food.

Eruption organs.
The squeezed juice of grapevine leaves is useful against dysentery and pain in the anus due to fever. The tear of the vine, which is like gum, is drunk with wine, and it crushes stones. The ash of the squeezed vine with vinegar is applied to the kidney and on the tusa, and its fruit is suitable for the stomach, drives urine and fixes it.

Poisons.
The ash of the squeezed grapevine serves as an antidote for viper bites.