Fuwwat as-sabbagin - madder

Essence.
Madder has a tart taste. Actions and properties. It cleanses moderately.

Cosmetics.
Madder with vinegar is applied to lichens, and it cures them. It is also smeared with vinegar on white bahak, and this eliminates it. It cleanses the skin of all blemishes.

Tools with joints.
It is given to drink in water sweetened with honey, and this helps with inflammation of the sciatic nerve and with paralysis accompanied by sensory damage. A dirham of madder with two dirhams of Chinese rhubarb is given to drink in a cup of nabeez for bruises from a blow or fall.

Nutritional organs.
Madder fruits are given to drink in sikanjubin for spleen tumors. It cleanses the liver and spleen and opens blockages in them; this is a special property of madder.

Eruption organs.
Madder in the form of drinking drives urine so strongly that sometimes the patient even urinates blood. Anyone who drinks it must take a bath every day. When madder is inserted into the vagina, it drives menstruation and releases the fetus.

Poisons.
Its branches and leaves are useful against reptile bites.