Kurtum - dyeing safflower

Essence.
It can be garden or wild.

Nature.
Wild safflower is hot in the second degree and dry in the third, and the known species is hot in the first degree and dry in the second.

Properties.
Safflower oil is close to nettle oil, but weaker. This is one of the plants that curdles milk and separates its watery part. Masih states that safflower dissolves thickened milk and thickens liquid milk and that its nutritional value is very insignificant.

Breast organs.
Safflower cleanses the chest and clears the voice.

Nutritional organs.
Safflower is harmful to the stomach and curdles milk in the stomach.

Eruption organs.
Safflower mixed with figs or honey helps with kulanja and drives away burnt mucus. It promotes the arousal of lust. Garden safflower oil releases nature and is sometimes used for relaxation, putting the pulp of its seeds in soup, or laxative pills are prepared from safflower, almonds and honey. They give it four darakhmi to drink at one time. If you take three obols of its pulp, bush and bitter almonds, as well as anise and soda, each of them one darakhmi, with dry figs and honey and take one or two javzas, this medicine will drive away aqueous humor.

Sometimes natif is made from safflower for this purpose. Here is the description: mix safflower with peeled almonds, anise and boiled natif honey and eat it in equal quantities before dinner. Sometimes they drink the pulp of fresh safflower in the amount of twenty dirhams, infused in one ritl of hot water, with ten dirhams of grated white faniz, and this removes mucus.

Poisons.
A wild safflower leaf or its fruit, or both, is given to drink in wine for a scorpion sting, and this helps. Some people claim that if leaves or fruits of wild safflower are put in the mouth of a stung person, he will not feel pain; when he removes them from his mouth, the pain returns.