Nature.
Reed is very cooling, its ash is hot.
Actions and properties.
The root of the reed has the ability to lightly cleanse without burning, and its leaves do the same.
Cosmetics.
The bark and root of the reed help against fox disease and cleanse the skin of impurities, and its root, mixed with wild onions, draws out the points of arrows.
Tumors.
Fresh reed leaves are applied to carbuncles, and this helps.
Tools with joints.
Reed soothes pain due to “nerve contraction”.
Organs of the head.
If its flower gets into the ears, it causes deafness and gets stuck in the ear and does not come out.
Eruption organs.
The reed drives away urine and menstruation.
Poisons.
It helps against scorpion stings.