Ward - rose

Essence.
This plant is famous. Its strength is combined from watery and earthy substances; it has acridity and binding properties, as well as bitterness and astringency along with a slight sweetness. The wateriness of the rose weakens the warmth because of the principle that makes it sweet and bitter. There is a rarefaction in the rose that allows its astringent properties to penetrate; it often causes a runny nose. The bitterness of a rose lasts while it is fresh, but when it dries, its bitterness decreases. Therefore, fresh roses are lax if drunk in quantities of ten dirhams by weight.

The rose, called the “stinking rose,” is hot, and its root is stinging, like a spittlebug.

Nature.
Galen says: “The rose is not very cold in comparison with us” and adds: “we must consider her to be cold in the first degree.” I will say: its dryness is at the beginning of the second degree, especially in relation to dry roses.

Actions and properties.
Rose is more drying than binding, since its bitterness is stronger than its astringent taste. It opens, cleanses and calms the movement of yellow bile.

Rose seeds are the most astringent; The fluffs inside the flower also work. All its parts strengthen the internal organs, and the astringent property does not go further than preventing dissolution. Dry roses are more astringent and cooler; they are said to have the ability to extract arrowheads and thorns. Good squeezed rose juice is the juice squeezed from whitish roses with “cut marigolds” and dried in the shade like jam.

Cosmetics.
Roses eliminate the stench of sweat if consumed in a bath. A washing agent is prepared from them as follows: take roses that have not been soaked in dew and leave until they wither. They take forty mithqals of these roses, five mithqals of fragrant spikenard, and six mithqals of myrrh and turn it all into small cakes. Sometimes a bush and rhizomes of iris are added there for two dirhams of each. Women often string these cakes onto necklaces or use them as soap to combat the stench of sweat. Tumors and acne.

Some claim that if you eat roses crushed, they will remove all sorts of warts. If you remove their petals and, without squeezing, apply them as a medicinal bandage to hot tumors, the tumors will resolve. This also helps with erysipelas.

Wounds and ulcers.
Roses help with ulcers, build up flesh in old ulcers and heal ulcers from abrasions between the thighs and in the groins. Some claim that powdered roses draw out arrow tips and thorns.

Organs of the head.
Fresh roses and boiled rose water soothe headaches. Rose oil, even if you smell it, causes sneezing. Some say that it causes sneezing because it retains the fumes, but this is probably due to the opposite action of the attracting and retracting force in the brain, which has a fluid surplus. The very roses make the one whose brain is hot sneeze. Rose seeds, as well as their decoction with boiled wine, strengthen the gums and help with ear pain.

Organs of the eye.
Roses soothe eye pain from heat; A decoction of dried roses is useful for thickening the eyelids if you lubricate the eyelids with it. Rose oil and squeezed rose juice also have a beneficial effect. Roses also help with eye inflammation, but only if you cut off the white ends of the petals.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Drinking rose water in sips helps against fainting, and squeezed rose juice and juice from its stems are good for hemoptysis, as are the petioles.

Nutritional organs.
Roses are good for the liver and stomach. Rose honey jam, that is, julanjubin, strengthens the stomach and is good for digestion. Roses and the juice squeezed from them help with stomach moistness. Rose oil, as well as smearing the stomach area with rose, extinguishes inflammation of the stomach. Rose syrup is beneficial for people with a relaxed stomach.

Eruption organs.
Rose oil, when smeared with a feather, soothes pain in the anus and pain in the uterus arising from warmth; A decoction of dried roses also works. Roses are useful for pain in the rectum; From their decoction they make an enema for ulcers in the intestines. For this disease, they also drink rose syrup. Sleeping on a bed of roses calms lust. Fresh roses are sometimes lax: from ten dirhams of fresh roses you have to sit down ten times. Dry roses do not relax, but rose oil relaxes the stomach.