Qissa al-khimar - mad cucumber

Essence.
The squeezed juice is extracted this way: the fruit is taken at the end of summer, when it has already turned yellow, and hung in a rag so that the juice flows out of it. It is strained and dried in a cup on hot ashes and left to lie on a board in the shade.

Choice.
The best crazy cucumbers are yellow and straight, like kitty cucumbers, with a certain bitterness, and their good squeezed juice is white, smooth, light, one-year-old, similar to sea onions.

Nature.
Hot, dry to the third degree.

Actions and properties.
It is sparse and absorbable, and its root, leaves and fruit are cleaned and absorbed. Its peel dries out more, and the strength of the squeezed juice of its root and its leaves is the same.

Cosmetics.
The squeezed juice of mad cucumber and the squeezed juice of its roots and leaves are beneficial for jaundice; Dry mad cucumber powder removes black scars and cleanses the face of dirt.

Tumors and acne.
If you make a medicinal dressing from its root with barley flour, it will resolve any old mucous tumor. Crazy cucumber, especially when mixed with terebinth resin, and even more so - its squeezed juice causes wounds to open.

Wounds and ulcers.
If you sprinkle dry crazy cucumber on jarab and lichen, it helps.

Tools with joints.
Crazy cucumber helps against joint diseases, and its decoction is a useful enema for inflammation of the sciatic nerve. It is used to make a medicinal dressing with vinegar for gout.

Organs of the head.
Its squeezed juice, administered with milk into the nose, resolves migraines from thick juices, and if mixed with milk, lubricate the nostrils, it removes a lot of excess. It also helps with “helmet” and chronic headaches. The squeezed juice of its leaves is weaker; If you put the squeezed juice in your ear, it soothes the pain.

Respiratory system.
Relaxation with its squeezed juice is very suitable for those who suffer from breathing disorders. Its squeezed juice with honey and olive oil is used to lubricate the palate for mucous sore throat.

Nutritional organs.
Crazy cucumber is an amazing remedy for dropsy, removing wateriness without harm. If you give one and a half obol of mad cucumber root to drink, or if you boil half a ritl of it with two cysts of wine and give three to five obols to drink every three days, and also if you take one and a half obol of its root or a quarter of Oxybuff of its peel, it causes vomiting of mucus and yellow bile . It is drunk with water sweetened with honey, and it brings obvious benefits and easily expels both secretions without causing suffering and without harm to the stomach. With its help, you can induce relaxation if you add double the amount of salt to its squeezed juice, and then prepare pills, just like from lenticular vetch, and drink in sips with water.

And to induce vomiting, take a little of its squeezed juice, dilute it with water and lubricate the base of the tongue and adjacent parts with it. If you want the effect to be faster and stronger, then do it with olive oil or iris oil. If the vomiting is excessive, then the person using this remedy is given wine and olive oil, and the vomiting immediately calms down. If this does not work, give barley oatmeal with cold water and vinegar.

Eruption organs.
The mad cucumber removes mucus and blood, and its squeezed juice drives away urine and menstruation; when inserted into the vagina, it destroys the fetus.