Essence.
Its action approaches that of hellebore; some say these are the seeds of black turbite. The bark of its root is a yellow turbite that grows in Sogd.
Choice.
The best variety of it is Indian, and it is similar to the pierced-leaved bug.
Tools with joints.
Some doctors gave it to paralytics to drink in amounts of up to two dirhams; this caused vomiting, and the patients recovered.
Nutritional organs.
It causes nausea and sometimes even death from excessive vomiting.
Eruption organs.
He eases up. They drink half a dirham at a time, but taking a whole dirham is dangerous.
Poisons.
It has a poisonous property.