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Choice.
Qissa seeds are better than Khiyar seeds; the best and rarest kissa is ripe.

Nature.
Cold, damp to the second degree.

Actions and properties.
Kissa calms heat and bile, but its chyme is bad, prone to decay and causes severe fevers. Ripe kissa is likely to spoil; Ripe has a cleansing property. Cucumber is digested worse than kissa. It enters the blood vessels undigested and causes chronic fevers. The harm from it is destroyed by agonism or severe inflammation of the stomach.

Tumors and acne.
Kissa leaves with honey are applied to the mucous membrane of urticaria, and this helps.

Respiratory system.
If a person in a hot faint is given a sniff of kissa, then it will be useful for him.

Nutritional organs.
Kissa quenches thirst and is good for the stomach, although it is rarely digested properly. Drinking a few rounds of its root in water with honey will cause vomiting of liquid juice.

Eruption organs.
It strongly drives urine and softens the nature and is useful for pain in the male genital organs, and is also suitable for the bladder, but is inferior in diuretic effect to melon.