Turmus - lupine

Essence.
These are grains, flattened in shape, bitter in taste, with a hollow in the middle. Turmus is an Egyptian bean.

Choice.
Wild lupine is stronger in all the actions attributed to it, but it is smaller than garden lupine.

Nature.
Hot in the first degree, dry in the second.

Properties.
Lupine, which contains bitterness, cleans, glues and dissolves without burning. Galen says: “Lupin, freed from bitterness, is a rough substance and is not far from becoming adhesive. There is no cleansing property left in it, and in general it is a bad substance. It is difficult to digest and if not digested properly, produces immature juice in the vessels. Seasoned lupine, if well boiled and if overcooked, is very nutritious and does not produce bad juices. It is characterized by dryness and stickiness - it is soaked lupine, from which the bitterness has been removed and then boiled. But in general it is closer to medicines than to dishes.

Cosmetics.
Lupine, especially when boiled in rainwater until softened, thins hair, removes bahak, freckles, blemishes, bruises, pimples and cleanses the face. Its decoction, if watered with it, helps against barasa.

Tumors.
Lupine helps against acne on the face, against ulcers and hot tumors, against “mumps” and indurations - either with vinegar and honey, or consumed as appropriate for the body of a given patient. If you pour its decoction on an organ affected by gangrene, it prevents rotting.

Ulcers.
Lupine helps against jarab and, when mixed with black wolf's bast root, sometimes eliminates jarab even in livestock. It helps against corrosion, prickly heat, and bad and malignant ulcers. A mixture of lupine flour and barley flour soothes pain from abscesses and helps with “Persian fire”.

Tools with joints.
Lupine is used to make medicinal dressings for inflammation of the sciatic nerve, and this helps.

Organs of the head.
Lupine flour helps with wet ulcers on the head.

Nutritional organs.
Lupine opens blockages in the liver and spleen, especially if it is boiled in vinegar with honey, and even more so with honey, rue and pepper. Lupine, which has no bitterness, soothes nausea and increases appetite, but lupine, from which the bitterness has been removed, has difficulty penetrating the blood vessels.

Eruption organs.
Lupine, in the form of a decoction or ointment applied to the navel, or when licked with honey or drunk with diluted vinegar, expels worms and “pumpkin seeds.” It helps relieve pain due to inflammation of the sciatic nerve. Lupine with rue and pepper drives menstruation and expels the fetus; it is drunk or inserted into the vagina; sometimes it is introduced for this purpose with myrrh and honey. Drinking honey and vinegar, it expels fruit and worms, and also drives away urine. Lupine has the property of closing the stomach, but sweetened lupine, as some say, does not loosen or fasten.