Sarv - evergreen cypress

Its taste is slightly pungent, acrid and very bitter; its astringency is stronger than its bitterness. The sharpness of cypress is sufficient to direct it deep into the organs, and bring to them the ability to bind without burning. Cypress differs from other warming agents in that it does not draw out juices.

Nature.
Hot in the first degree, dry in the second degree. Some claim that cypress is very cold, and conclude that its strength is complex and that its heat is only great enough to direct its astringent property deep into the organs.

Actions and properties.
Cypress leaves and cones are tied together. It has a resorption power that dissolves liquid. Its cones are in every way stronger than its leaves. It glues, stops bleeding and even eliminates rotting

Cosmetics.
If you boil cypress in vinegar with lupine and anoint your nails with it, it will remove stains from them, and cypress leaves destroy bahak and blacken hair.

Wounds and ulcers.
Fresh, soft, freshly picked leaves, cones and twigs of cypress heal wounds in hard organs.

Tumors and acne.
Cypress, especially mixed with barley flour, helps against herpes and carbuncle.

Tools with joints.
Fresh cypress leaves and cones, if made into a medicinal dressing, are good for hernia. If applied as a medicinal bandage, it strengthens the nerves and tightens the hernia, strengthens the relaxed muscles and makes them firmer.

Organs of the head.
If you finely crush cypress cones with figs and make a wick into your nose, this gets rid of wild meat, and a decoction of the cones in vinegar stops toothache.

Respiratory system.
Cypress cones are given to drink in wine for hemoptysis, difficulty breathing, “standing breathing” and old cough. Their decoction also works.

Eruption organs.
Cypress leaves are given to drink in boiled wine, and this helps with difficulty urinating and the leakage of excess into the bladder. They are also useful for ulcers in the intestines and stomach, to which excess flows.

Substitutes.
Cypress replaces half the weight of pomegranate peels and an equal weight of red anzarut.