Yattu - Euphorbiaceae

Essence.
This is any plant with a sharp, laxative, tearing, burning milky juice. Of these, seven plants are known: asclepiad, resinous euphorbia, triaculeate euphorbia, artanisa, oleaginous euphorbia, wolf's bast and bantaphylun. , that is, “five-leafed”. All of them are deadly and the most valuable thing in them is the milky juice.

There are also species of yattu that are not listed among the known plants. This is one type of forget-me-not, one type of bindweed, wild purslane and others. Yattu milk is most often the milky juice of Euphorbia triaculeata. It appears that the species of yattu called teryak are karavi and bushanji.

It is also said that there are seven types of yattu. The most acute of all types of yattu is the one called male and called harakiyas, and all the rest are female.

The strongest of the latter is the one that looks like myrtle and is called murtitas. Then comes the woody one, growing between the rocks, then the yattu, similar to mullein and called broadleaf. Then yattu, similar to mallow; it's called cubarisas^And, that is, cypress. Next comes faraliyus - coastal, which is called sea because it grows near the sea.

We say again that the strongest yattu is the one mentioned male. Its root is longer than an elbow, reddish, full of milk, and its branches are similar to olive branches, but only longer and thinner. Its roots are woody and it grows on steep mountain slopes.

As for the female yattu, which is also called “nutty,” its plant is similar to laurel, but larger and harder, and the heads of the leaves are prickly. From its roots emerge stems as long as a span. One year it bears fruit, another year it bears no fruit. Its fruits burn the tongue and look like nuts. This species is inferior to the first in terms of emetic action and grows in the same places as the male one.

As for the marine species of yattu, which is also called “poppy,” its branches are several spans long, reddish, straight, there are five or six of them, and small, thin, slightly oblong leaves sit on them.

Its fruits are similar to lenticular vetch, and its leaves are similar to flax leaves. Their heads are double, round and the flowers are white.

Dioscorides says: “There is a yattu here called mushammas, and it is like the garden purslane; as for its leaves, there are many of them, but they are thinner and rounder than those of purslane. From its root come branches - four or five in number, full of milk; the branches have corollas, like dill, which contain fruits. This yattu most often grows in ruins and in the vicinity of cities.

As for the “cypress” yattu, its stem is the size of a span or more, and the leaves are similar to the leaves of cypress and pine, but they are thinner and wetter. The rock yattu, which is also called the “tree yattu,” has leaves like a small myrtle or like a male yattu. They have moist tops and many corollas.

There is also another yattu, similar to khiyar. Its root and leaves drive away all watery moisture.

Choice.
The most powerful effect in yattu is milk, then the seeds, then the root, then the leaf.

When people talk about yattu milk in general, they mean the milk of Euphorbia triaculeata.

Nature.
Its milk is hot and dry to the fourth degree, and all its other parts are to the second degree and up to the third.

Actions and properties.
Euphorbia causes ulcers and kills. If it falls into the pond, then all the fish fall asleep and float up.

Cosmetics.
Yattu reduces tusa, warts, birthmarks and excess meat around the nails. Yattu milk, if applied to hair, removes hair, especially in the sun. The hair that grows in the same place is weak, and if you repeat this, it does not grow at all. Sometimes the milky juice of yattu is mixed with olive oil to partially break its harmful effects, and used for shaving.

Wounds and ulcers.
The roots of yattu with vinegar dissolve hardenings that form around kidney cones and reduce lichen, and as part of a wax ointment they heal rotting and corroded ulcers, black gall jarab, “Persian fire”, corrosion and gangrene

Organs of the head.

Its milk is dripped onto a corroded tooth; it crumbles it and makes it fall out. It is often applied with kitran to weaken its power. But it is best to protect healthy areas of the tooth by sealing them with a piece of wax and then dripping milky juice into the hollow. If you boil the yattu root in vinegar and then rinse your mouth with the decoction, it soothes toothache.

Organs of the eye.
The milky juice reduces the pterygoid hymen.

Eruption organs.
Yattu removes kidney cones, drives away mucus and aqueous humor. If two or three drops of its milk are dropped on a fig, dried and then taken, it will cause sufficient relief; it also acts in oatmeal and bread.

And if you have to drink yatta in its pure form, then it is best to take it in a wax ointment or in wax with honey so that it does not cause ulcers in the mouth and throat. Sometimes they take fresh branches of yattu, fry them little by little on a clay shard, grind them and give two karamas with oatmeal to the sick; This composition is poured with water and drunk.

Dry branches of yattu have a very weak effect. Dry branches of a species called karfiyun are dried in the shade and the bark is removed from them. Nine karams of this bark are taken and soaked in old wine for one day and one night, and then filtered, heated until warm and drunk. She relaxes without causing suffering.

Substitutes.
Yatta can be replaced for emptying watery and mucous juices with three times the weight of “orris root” and two-thirds the weight of sagapen.