Fashira - white step

Essence.
This is Khazarjushan, that is, “white vine”.

Nature.
Hot, dry to the third degree.

Actions and properties.
It is hot and caustic, cleansing, thinning and moderately warming.

Cosmetics.
Its root with lenticular vetch and fenugreek strongly cleanses, cleanses and refreshes the outer integument of the body, reduces freckles and black spots remaining after ulcers. It also works if you cook it in olive oil until it is softened. It eliminates bruising under the eye.

Tumors and acne.
Its root reduces warts and milk pimples; taken with wine, it eliminates nailworm, resolves hardenings and causes ulcers to open. If you drink it for thirty days with vinegar, three obols every day, it will resolve the tumor of the spleen. In the form of a medicinal bandage with figs, it is placed on the diseased spleen. It also eliminates nailworm if you make a medicinal dressing with wine.

Wounds and ulcers.
Its root is applied as a medicinal bandage with salt to fresh ulcers. It is included in plasters that corrode meat, and its fruits are smeared with ulcerative and non-ulcerative jarab and with peeling.

Tools with joints.
Its root, in the form of a medicinal dressing with wine, removes bone fragments; one darakhmi of it, used daily in the form of a medicinal bandage, helps against paralysis and muscle rupture.

Organs of the head.
Peresupen is drunk daily, one darachmi for six days, and this helps against epilepsy and dizziness.

Sometimes it causes insanity.

Chest and respiratory organs.
Sometimes it is used to make a medicine for licking mixed with honey, useful for sore throat, respiratory distress, cough and pain in the side. If you drink its squeezed juice with boiled wheat, it increases the flow of milk in women.

Nutritional organs.
Galen says: "Eating the ends of its shoots as soon as they appear is good for the stomach because of their astringent property and pungency."

Eruption organs.
The core of this plant is eaten as soon as it appears, and it drives urine and relaxes the stomach. One darakhmi of its root kills the fetus, and if you insert its root into the vagina, it brings out the fetus. The step cleanses the uterus if you sit in its decoction. Squeezed juice removes mucus. Crossstep is one of the good medicines for the spleen.

Poisons.
One darakhmi of its root helps against the bite of a viper, as well as the bite of all vipers.

Substitutes.
It is replaced by an equal amount of sapling by weight and two-thirds by weight of nutmeg.