Opium is opium

Essence.
This is the squeezed juice of the black Egyptian poppy, thickened in the sun. Sniffing Egyptian poppy puts you to sleep, and it is not drunk more than two danaks at a time. Opium is also sometimes prepared from wild lettuce; This is also a weak painkiller. The opium is roasted on a hot iron until it turns red.

Choice.
Selected opium is heavy, with a pungent odor; it crumbles easily and easily dissolves in water, does not thicken in the cold, melts in the sun and does not darken the light of a lamp if it burns in it. Yellow coloring water, rough, with a weak odor, transparent, has an impurity. This is opium mixed with mamisa; and sometimes it is mixed with the milky juice of wild lettuce, and it has a faint odor. Gum is also mixed with opium, and then it becomes very shiny and pure.

Nature.
Cold, dry to the fourth degree.

Actions and properties.
Opium is a painkiller, and it soothes, whether in drink or in the form of an ointment, all pain. They drink one large adasa at a time. Tumors and acne.

Opium prevents the formation of hot tumors.

Wounds and ulcers.
Opium dries out ulcers.

Tools with joints.
Opium is mixed with fried egg yolk and lubricated joints for gout; it soothes pain, especially when mixed with milk.

Organs of the head.
Opium puts you to sleep, even if administered with or without a wick, and soothes pain if a solution of it in rose oil with myrrh and saffron is administered into the sore ear. It soothes chronic headaches and refreshes the head, but is one of the drugs that robs thought and reason.

Organs of the eye.
Taken with human milk, opium soothes the pain of eye inflammation and tumors caused by it. Many ancient doctors did not use opium for eye inflammation, since it is harmful to vision.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Opium soothes persistent cough; It often clears up a painful cough.

Nutritional organs.
Opium seems to tan the stomach and tighten it when it is relaxed from heat and moisture. If you drink only opium alone, without the beaver stream, then in most cases it stops or greatly reduces digestion.

Eruption organs.
Opium stops diarrhea and helps with abrasions and ulcers in the intestines.

Poisons.
Opium kills by freezing strength and extinguishing natural warmth; The antidote to it is beaver stream.

Substitutes.
It can be replaced with triple the amount of henbane seeds or double the amount of mandrake seeds.