Mazariyun - wolf's bast

Essence.
This is a large yattu. It comes in two types: one with large and thin leaves, and the other with small and thick leaves; this last one is worse, and that yattu, which is black, kills.

Choice.
The best wolf's bast is the one with large leaves, similar to olive leaves, and which is more sparse. As for the wolf's bast with small, densely planted leaves, it is bad. The bad properties of wolf bast are sometimes weakened with vinegar.

Nature.
Hot, dry to the fourth degree.

Actions and properties.
Wolf's bast is a sharp, cleansing, skin-stripping and very caustic medicine.

Cosmetics.
All types of wolf's bast are used as an external ointment for bahak, baras and bruises; sometimes in these cases it is mixed with sulfur.

Wounds and ulcers.
All types of wolf bast mixed with honey are used for lichen and contaminated ulcers. Thanks to the dissolving and corrosive substance contained in it, it reduces the scabs and therefore dries out the jarab.

Organs of the head.
You rinse your mouth with a decoction of wolf bast, especially a black decoction, and this soothes toothache. Sometimes a little wolf bast with pepper and a piece of wax is glued onto a corroded, diseased tooth.

Nutritional organs.
Wolf's bast is very harmful to the liver.

Eruption organs.
Wolf's bast drives water, especially if taken fresh at the time of flowering. Its pungency is reduced by soaking it in vinegar and then drying it. At one time they give six darachmi of soaked wolf bast to drink, which they boil in one and a half ritls of water until half and a quarter remains, after which they drink it. It drives out snakes and “pumpkin seeds”, especially one of its Oxybuffs in a decoction of mountain pulegium mint. Twenty-two dirhams of wolf's bast are soaked in khus of wine and left to stand for two months, then filtered and left to stand for another two months, and then drunk for dropsy and for cleansing after childbirth. Its decoction is useful for severe difficulty urinating. Some say that wolf's bast also drives away black bile and mucous juices, especially if you mix it with an equal amount of wormwood mixed with honey. Among doctors there are those who take one misqal of it for double the amount of bitter wormwood mixed with boiled honey, and prepare candles from it. If they want to expel “yellow water” with its help, then they should mix other laxatives with it, and if they want to expel black bile, then they do the same, mixing wolf’s bast with agents that expel black bile.

Poisons.
Wolf bast is given to drink in wine against the bite of reptiles. Its black variety is a particularly deadly poison. If you mix it with oatmeal and add water and olive oil, it kills mice, dogs and pigs. Lethal to humans - two dirhams. It kills by causing melancholy, vomiting and diarrhea.