Murdasanj - litharge, lead oxide

Essence.
Murdasanj is burnt lead, but often it is not made from lead. Sometimes they try to improve it, either by boiling it in vinegar or wine and then burning it once or twice, or by burning it on hot coals and skimming off what rises to the top. It is also boiled in water with wheat and barley until the grains burst; then they remove the wheat and water and boil it again in new water until it is cleansed and settles in this water; They do this to it several times and clean it with salt, as they did at first. And sometimes they do the wrong thing.

Nature.
Galen says that lead oxide is slightly drying, but weakly warming and cooling, and according to others, it is slightly cold. Washed lead oxide is undoubtedly cold.

Actions and properties.
This medicine is astringent, slightly cleansing with contraction and gluing and thinning thick juices. The binding and purification of lead oxide is low. Lead oxide is the main substance of the patches; it binds drugs and also weakens excessive dissolution, corrosion and contraction.

Cosmetics.
Lead oxide gives a pleasant odor to the body and armpits, prevents the formation of abrasions on the thigh, reduces freckles, black spots and bruises, especially when washed. It destroys traces of smallpox and prevents sweating.

Wounds and ulcers.
Lead oxide, by its side effect, builds up flesh in ulcers, but Galen says that it neither cleans nor pollutes, nor builds up or reduces flesh, but is the main substance of plasters and helps against abrasions under the arms and on the thighs.

Organs of the eye.
Washed white lead oxide is included in eye powders and cleanses the eye.

Eruption organs.
Drinking lead oxide prevents urination. Women in our country give it to their children for diarrhea and ulcers in the intestines, and it is sometimes placed in jugs of water to reduce the harmfulness of the water.

Poisons.
Lead oxide kills by delaying urination, distending the abdomen and ureters, turning the tongue white, suffocating and restricting breathing.