Hayya - snake

Essence.
They are consumed boiled in water with salt and dill and sometimes olive oil is added. They also use snake brine, which has the strength of its meat. Shed snake skin is also consumed. We will list all types of snakes in Book Four.

Choice.
The best snake meat is the meat of the female, and the best skin is the skin of the male.

Nature.
The drying power of snake meat is great, but as for warming, it is insignificant. The snake's skin is also very dry.

Actions and properties.
The property of snake meat is that it carries the excess to the skin, especially when a person is not clean. One man who ate snake meat developed a large boil on his neck and when it was pierced, all its contents came out in the form of lice. If you eat snake meat, it prolongs life, strengthens your strength, preserves your senses and youth.

Cosmetics.
Snake meat causes lice and peeling of the skin, as it pushes the excess to the skin, it is very helpful against leprosy; and if used against the “fox” disease, it brings great benefits.

Tumors and acne.
Snake meat and broth, cooked after removing its ends, prevent the growth of “piglets”. Her skin does the same.

Tools with joints.
If you drink broth from a snake that has had about four fingers cut off from its head and tail and then boiled it as we mentioned, or eat its meat, it helps with nerve pain. Snake skin works the same way.

Organs of the head.
If you put wine in which snake skin has been boiled in your ear, it soothes ear pain. For toothache, rinse your mouth with vinegar in which snake skin was boiled. The best leather is that of a male. Galen claims that if you take a lot of threads, especially those dyed red with arjuvan, strangle a viper with them, and then wrap one of the threads around the neck of a person who has a tumor of the tongue and throat, an amazing beneficial effect will appear.

Organs of the eye.
The snake broth and snake meat we talked about strengthen your eyesight. Everyone agrees that snake oil prevents the appearance of cataracts in the eye, but people do not dare to do so.

Poisons.
The viper is cut open and applied to the place bitten by the same viper, and this soothes the pain.