فوائد طبية لبعض الحشائش والبزور والفواكه _٣_ قاموس الطب البيتي في الأَمْراضُ

Medical benefits of some herbs, seeds and fruits _3_ Dictionary of home medicine in diseases and their treatments

Benefits of having tonsils in humans

The presence of tonsils has many benefits, especially for catching microbes that enter the mouth before swallowing them as a result of eating some foods that are contaminated with microbes. The absence of tonsils often causes infertility for some people of both sexes, and therefore tonsils are only removed in cases where they must be removed.

Benefits of bran

If you boil a quantity of bran with a little salt and use it as a poultice, it will calm breast tumors from milk clots. If you drink boiled bran water after it has been filtered and sweetened with sugar or honey, it will soften the stomach and be useful for hoarseness of voice, phlegm and cough. If you cook bran with radish leaf water and add it to a scorpion sting, its pain will calm down. If you soak it in vinegar and put a little of it on the embers of the fire and inhale it for the cold, it will benefit. If you drink boiled bran with sugar, it will dissolve phlegm from the chest and expel it...

Explanation of the Standards of Medical Scales

A danq is a sixth of a dirham. A dirham is the weight of five carob seeds. A mithqal is a dirham and a half. A medical ounce is ten dirhams and a half or a third. A pound is twelve medical ounces. A quintal is one hundred and twenty pounds. A kilo is a pound and a half.
Causes of Stone Formation

Whether in the liver, kidney or urinary tract, we can limit the formation of stones to what was mentioned above and its main causes are acid (acidities). Many people's stomachs do not burn the acid (acidities) coming from some foods that contain a lot of acetate, so either this acid remains and is called acidity in the stomach, or these acids turn into salts, or they remain salts or these salts turn into small grains of sand or this sand turns into stones, if acetate (acidities), salts: sand, stones, in order to avoid returning the stones to the patient again because it is known to everyone that stones return again to all those who got rid of stones by any means and to eliminate stones in the future, the patient who got rid of the stones that he had must take every evening before going to bed after dinner a cup of boiled one of the following substances: asparagus grass, boiled barley, cherry neck, corn silk, boiled parsley or Young radish leaves or other diuretic substances, in this way there is no trace of sediment in the urinary tract and his life is safe in the future.

Explanation of some medical words in colloquial terms
From the book Benefits and Properties

Basbas herb is fennel, i.e. fennel

Jannar is pomegranate blossom

Shoniz (Persian) is black seed, i.e. black seed

Halawa seed is anise

Whiteness of the face is aspidaj