Khabbat al-khadra - fruits of the turpentine tree

Essence.
She is famous. There is something astringent and healthy in the fruits of this tree; their effect is similar to the beneficial effect of mastic. Its resin is the best after mastic. Large fruits are called dare, and the tree is called butm.

Nature.
One of the doctors said: “There is something emollient and astringent in its oil, the same as in rose oil.” The truth is that its warming property is by no means small; As for its drying effect, while it is fresh, it is small, and when it dries, it reaches the third degree. The resin of this tree is hot and somewhat dry.

Actions and properties.
Warming, emollient, cleansing, slightly astringent. Resin dissolves more than mastic, since it is more bitter and binds only a little. It cleanses strongly and opens well, promotes ripening and softens, draws juices from the depths of the body and in many cases replaces mastic. Butma soot, like incense soot, is harmless. The oil combines emollient properties with astringent properties. Some say that the oil seems to cool it somewhat.

Cosmetics.
Cleanses the face and reduces freckles, and Nabataean resin is beneficial for cracks on the face.

Tumors and acne.
Its resin promotes the maturation of hard boils.

Wounds and ulcers.
Its fruits reduce jarab and lichen, and its resin is included in plasters to cleanse wounds and absorb pus and heal external ulcers. Helps against itching in ulcers, against ulcerative and mucous jarab and against mucous pimples.

Tools with joints.
Their oil is included in oils and patches against exhaustion, as well as in medicines for general paralysis and facial paralysis.

Organs of the head.
Resin with honey and olive oil is good for moisture in the ear.

Organs of the eye.
Its soot is included in powders for preserving eyelashes and in medicines for eyelid corrosion.

Respiratory and chest organs.
The fruits in the form of a medicinal bandage and rubbing are useful for pain in the side. The resin, if licked as is or with something sweet, is useful for ulcers in the lungs and for chronic coughs.

Nutritional organs.
The fruits, and especially butma oil, help against diseases of the spleen and also cleanse the liver, but it discourages appetite for food.

Eruption organs.
They excite lust and drive urine, and the resin also drives it and painlessly softens the stomach if you take it in one bunduk or one jaz on an empty stomach. It cleanses the insides and cleanses the kidneys.

Poisons.
The resin of the turpentine tree and its fruits are drunk in wine from a karakurt bite.