Banjankusht - twig

Essence.
This is a plant that is almost a tree in size. It grows in places close to water. Its branches are hard, and its leaves are like those of an olive, but only softer. In medicine, not its branches are used, but only flowers, leaves and fruits. In all that it is used there is a thinning, acridity and astringency, but less than that of dried rue.

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

Actions and properties.
Dissolving, thinning and expelling winds and not swelling at all. The rod opens and binds somewhat.

Cosmetics.
Clears the complexion.

Tools with joints.
A medicinal bandage is prepared from the twig along with the leaves to “contract the nerves”; it eliminates exhaustion.

Organs of the head.
In the form of drinking, the twig causes headaches and drowsiness, and if it is made into a medicinal bandage, it helps against headaches.

Roasted twig, if eaten, causes only a mild headache.

Nutritional organs.
Prutnyak opens blockages in the liver and blockages in the spleen; it is very useful for hardening of the spleen, if taken with sikanjubin in the amount of two dirhams, and also helps with dropsy.

Breast organs.
This is one of the medicines that increases the secretion of milk and at the same time reduces the emission of semen. They drink it up to one dirham at a time.

Eruption organs.
Sitting in a decoction of twigs is useful for pain in the uterus and tumors in it. In drinking with pulegium mint and when fumigated, the twig dries the seed. If several of its stems are placed in bed under the back, it prevents emissions and erections. Women are fumigated with twig smoke when their lust intensifies. It is also a diuretic and helps, especially its seeds, against fissures in the anus. It is used to make medicinal dressings with ghee for hardening of the testicle; Its seeds are especially useful for this.

Fevers.
Prutnyak helps against four-day fevers.

Poisons.
Prutnyak helps against the bites of reptiles and snakes, if you drink it in the amount of one dirham, and also in the form of a medicinal bandage - against the bite of a rabid dog and wild animals. The smoke of its leaves is good at driving away reptiles.