Oud al-salib - medicinal peony

Essence.
Dioscorides states that the “wood of the cross” is called by some “having fingers,” while others call it glycisidi, which in Arabic means “sweet-smelling.” This is a plant with a stem about two spans long, from which many shoots branch. The male leaves are like chestnut leaves, while the female leaves are jagged like the leaves of wild parsley. At the end of the stem there is a shell resembling the shell of an almond, and when this shell opens, it reveals grains as red as blood, numerous and small, like pomegranate seeds. Between them lie dark seeds with a purple tint; there are five or six of them. The male root is as thick as a finger and a span long. It is white and its taste is astringent. The root of the female species has branches like an oak tree; there are seven or eight of them, like the roots of a bisexual peony.

Organs of the head.
Drinking fifteen hubbs in honey water helps with nightmares.

Nutritional organs.
If you eat it as it is, it helps with the burning sensation in your stomach.

Eruption organs.
Its root is sometimes given to drink in the amount of one lauz to women who have not been cleansed after childbirth through menstruation, and it helps by expelling menstruation. If you drink it in wine, it helps against pain in the uterus, stomach, kidneys and bladder, and against jaundice. If you boil it in wine and drink it, it strengthens the stomach, and if you drink ten or twelve of its red grains in black tart wine, it will stop bleeding from the uterus. If children eat or drink it, it will eliminate the stones that start appearing in their urine. Ten habbs of its grains in wine with honey help with “suffocation” that occurs from pain in the uterus.