Essence.
The land hedgehog is known, and the mountain hedgehog is a porcupine bearing arrow-shaped quills; by its nature it is close to the ground hedgehog. As for the sea urchin, it is a type of fish with a shell.
Actions and properties.
The fat and dried liver of the hedgehog prevent the outpouring of matter into the insides. The ash of sea and land urchin cleanses, absorbs and dries.
Cosmetics.
Salted land urchin helps against elephantiasis, and the meat of land urchin helps against leprosy due to its strong absorbent effect. The burnt skin of a ground urchin mixed with zift helps against the “fox” disease.
Tumors and acne.
The skin of the sea urchin is included in medicines for jarab, and its meat is very useful for “pigs”.
Wounds and ulcers.
The ash from the skin of a hedgehog is useful for contaminated ulcers and destroys wild meat. Its meat is very helpful against “mumps” and nodular indurations.
Tools with joints.
Salted meat of the land urchin is useful against paralysis, against spasms, against all kinds of nerve diseases and against elephantiasis.
Respiratory system.
Ground urchin meat is good for consumption.
Nutritional organs.
The meat of a land hedgehog is useful for disorders of nature; its salted meat with shikanjubin is a good remedy for dropsy, as is its liver, dried in the sun on a shard.
Eruption organs.
Sea urchin is good for the stomach; it softens the stomach and drives away urine and menstruation. Salted land urchin meat with shikanjubin helps relieve kidney pain. Ground urchin meat is good for children who wet the bed; Constant consumption of this meat sometimes even causes difficulty urinating.
Fevers.
Ground urchin meat is useful against chronic fevers.
Poisons.
Hedgehog meat is useful against reptile bites.