Hanzal - coloquint

Essence.
The coloquint can be male or female. He is famous. The male coloquint is fibrous, while the female coloquint is loose, white, and smooth.

Choice.
Selected coloquint is white, bright white and soft; The black coloquint is bad, and the hard one is also bad. When collecting coloquint, you should not remove the pulp from inside the fruit; it is better to leave it there as it is, because if this is done, the effect of coloquint weakens. It should not be picked until it begins to turn yellow and loses its green color completely, otherwise it will become harmful, evil and deadly.

They say you should avoid eating coloquinte peels and grains; if there is only one coloquinte on a plant, it will be harmful and deadly. The male fibrous coloquint is stronger than the female, loose one. The coloquint must be rubbed very hard and do not delude yourself into thinking that it has been ground well enough. The fact is that the smallest coloquinte particles to the touch, encountering moisture, swell, get stuck in the stomach and in the bends of the intestines and cause inflammation. Therefore, when grinding, it is necessary to moisten the coloquint with water sweetened with honey, then dry it and grind it again. It is better to correct the harm of coloquinth and eliminate it with the help of tragacanth than with the help of gum arabic, because the gum suppresses the power of this medicine more strongly.

Nature.
Hot to the third degree, dry. Al-Kindi claimed that his nature was cold and wet, but he moved significantly away from the truth.

Actions and properties.
Dissolving, tearing away, attracting from afar. And fresh leaves of coloquinth stop the bleeding.

Cosmetics.
They rub it on areas affected by leprosy and elephantiasis.

Tumors and acne.
Fresh coloquinta leaves resolve tumors and promote their maturation.

Tools with joints.
Coloquint is useful for pain in the nerves and joints, inflammation of the sciatic nerve and cold gout. Fresh coloquint is sometimes used to make medicinal dressings for inflammation of the sciatic nerve, and sometimes it is included in enemas for inflammation of the sciatic nerve and is very helpful. While the coloquint is still green, they rub it on the area of ​​the inflamed sciatic nerve, and this helps a lot. Organs of the head.

Coloquint cleanses the brain. The root of the coloquinte is boiled with vinegar and rinsed the mouth with it for toothache, or the fruit is cut in a circle, the contents are thrown away and vinegar is boiled in hot ashes in the shell freed from the pulp. If the coloquint was boiled in olive oil, then this oil is useful for ringing in the ears, and it makes it easier to remove teeth. If you take out the contents of the coloquinta fruit, fill its shell with grape must, bake it in hot ashes and rinse your mouth with the must, it helps against toothache.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Emptying with a coloquint helps a lot with “standing breathing.”

Nutritional organs.
Coloquinte root is beneficial for dropsy, but harmful to the stomach.

Eruption organs.
Coloquint expels thick mucus, especially from joints and nerves, and also expels bile. It helps a lot against wet and windy conditions and sometimes causes relief from the blood. It is inserted into the vagina and it kills the fetus. Since coloquint leaves the intestines quickly, it does not reach the potency that one would expect due to its bitterness.

Coloquint is useful for kidney and bladder diseases. It is given to drink two karams by weight at a time, that is, twelve qirats. It needs to be ground into powder. Sometimes the contents of the coloquinta fruit are removed from the top and the empty space is filled with condensed grape juice or sweet old wine and left there for one day and one night. Sometimes it is left to lie in hot ashes until it warms up a little, and they drink it, adding two-thirds by weight of tragacanth.

Poisons.
When picked green, the coloquint causes excessive re-weakening, so much so that it sometimes even kills. Two danaks of a coloquinth growing alone on its root kill, but one danak is enough for the peel and seeds. Its root is useful for viper bites, and it is one of the most useful medicines for scorpion stings. One man said that he gave dirhams of coloquinta to drink to an Arab who had been bitten by a scorpion in four places, and the Arab was immediately cured. Coloquint in the form of an ointment also helps with this.