Sakamuniya - scammonium

Essence.
This is the squeezed juice of a bindweed plant, the strength of which remains for up to thirty years.

Choice.
The best scammonium resin is shiny, blue with a white tint, like a shell fragment; it rubs easily and dissolves quickly. Xopoa is a blue scammonium resin that when dissolved in water makes it like milk. It is best consumed by baking it in an apple and mixing with celery juice; this destroys the harm from it. Scammonia resin from the Jarmakani species is bad. Sometimes it is improved by baking it in a juicy apple surrounded by dough, or mixing it with crushed anise, duku and almond butter.

Nature.
Hot, dry to the third degree; its warmth is greater than its dryness.

Properties.
Scammonium resin slightly cleanses and resolves. It is hostile to the stomach and especially the liver.

Cosmetics.
Scammonium resin in the form of an ointment destroys baras, bahak and freckles.

Tumors and acne.
If you boil it in water sweetened with honey and olive oil and apply it as a medicinal bandage to abscesses, it will resolve them.

Wounds and ulcers.
It is applied with vinegar to the ulcerative jarab.

Tools with joints.
Scammonium resin with vinegar and oatmeal is applied as a medicinal bandage for pain in the joints and hip.

Organs of the head.
The root and squeezed juice of scammonium root with vinegar and rose oil are given for chronic headaches. The very resin of scammonium, mixed with the same substances, if applied to the head of a person suffering from chronic headaches, cures it.

Respiratory system.
Scammonium belongs to the drugs harmful to the heart.

Nutritional organs.
Scammonium resin is very harmful to the stomach and liver. Its potency is reduced by toasting or adding celery seeds. It causes heartache and nausea, eliminates the desire for food and arouses thirst.

Eruption organs.
Scammonium resin strongly drives bile. It is used differently in different countries, so I even read in the books of some doctors about drinking from it, indicating different weight quantities. Scammonium gum is harmful to the intestines and is inserted into the vagina to cause miscarriage. The root of the scammonia tree, if drunk in the amount of one darachmi, drives away bile and mucus. Some doctors mention that if you drink a large amount of scammonium, that is, half a dirham by weight, it first fixes and then causes melancholy, nausea and cold sweat. Then sometimes excessive diarrhea sets in and it kills. Some say: “If you take old scammonium in a small amount, it drives urine, but does not weaken, and purification with scammonium mixed with sabur is therefore less, as well as with lupine, salt and fragrant seeds.”

If scammonium is inserted into the vagina in a piece of fur, it kills the fetus. If we are afraid of its harmfulness, then we improve it by mixing it with sour quince, apples and rose water in which sumac has been soaked, in such quantity that it can all be kneaded. Thin flat cakes are made from this dough, dried in the shade and consumed as needed.

Poisons.
It is useful as a drink or ointment for scorpion stings.