Ishkil - sea onion

Essence.
This is the “mouse bow,” and is so called because it kills mice; it is very caustic and strong. Roasting and boiling destroy its power; fried, it looks like dried peaches, and its color is pale yellow. There is a variety of this onion that is poisonous and kills; one of the doctors, based on an insignificant sign that he found, claims that it is a bulbus, but he is mistaken.

Choice.
The best sea onions are pearl-colored and shiny; its taste has sweetness with pungency and bitterness.

Nature.
Hot to the third degree, dry to the second.

Actions and properties.
This medicine is dissolving, attracting blood and excess to the outside of the organs, burning, ulcerating, greatly softening thick chyme; it tears with a force greater than that of heating, and the vinegar in which it is infused strengthens the weakened body and is good for health.

Cosmetics.
Sea onion in the form of an ointment, as well as with olive oil and rathiyanaj, reduces warts, and when it is smeared or rubbed into a “fox” or “snake” disease, it promotes hair growth. Sea onions, especially the cores of raw onions, help with cracked heels, and when infused with vinegar, they improve complexion.

Wounds and ulcers.
Sea onions dry out external ulcers, but if eaten, they are harmful to internal ulcers, and when rubbed, they cause ulceration.

Tools with joints.
Sea onions slightly damage healthy nerves, although they help with nerve pain, joint pain, paralysis, and especially inflammation of the sciatic nerve. Its infusion with vinegar and wine also works.

Organs of the head.
Sea onions help against epilepsy and melancholy; Its vinegar infusion strengthens gums and loose teeth and prevents caries.

Organs of the eye.
Eating sea onions sharpens vision and prevents catarrh.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Sea onions are very useful for asthma, old cough and hoarseness of voice; It is given to drink with honey in the amount of three obols. Its infusion in vinegar strengthens the throat, gives it firmness and has a beneficial effect on it.

Nutritional organs.
Sea onions help with hardening of the spleen, strengthen the stomach and digestion, and prevent food from rushing upward. The same effect is exerted by an infusion of sea onions in vinegar and its decoction, which is drunk for forty days to treat the spleen. They say that if you hang a bow on the neck of someone suffering from a hardened spleen for forty-one days, the spleen will become soft. It is also useful for dropsy and jaundice.

Eruption organs.
Sea onions strongly drive urine. Sea onion, as well as its infusion in vinegar, is beneficial for “suffocating the uterus.” It causes the eruption of thick juices, especially if it is fried with calcined salt, which is used six times more than sea onions. They drink two phalanjars on an empty stomach each time. Boiled sea onions work the same way. Its seeds are finely crushed, placed in a dry vessel and eaten, mixed with honey; they soften nature.

Sea onions help with pain in the stomach, anus and uterus and are very useful for pain in the intestines.

Fevers.
An infusion of sea onions in vinegar helps against chronic chills.

Poisons.
If you hang a scallion on a gate, it is said to keep the vermin away from it. The scallion is an antidote to vermin bites and kills mice.

 Substitutes.
A substitute for sea onions is the same amount of wild cumin or the same amount and another third of calamus with one third of amom.