Journal of - International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine

Editing and Study Adwiyat Harf al-Thal from Taqwīm al-adwiyah almufrada
Manuscript (Table of Simple Drugs) Written by Ibrāhīm b. Abī
Sa`īd b. Ibrāhīm al-Maġribī al-Alā’ī (Lived in 547H/1152 A.D)
Abdul Nasser KAADAN, Hesham ALAHMAD
Use in Respiratory
Diseases
The fruit is useful
for croup 1
Stop bloody
expectoration
the swarf
strengthens the
heart, and cures
heart pain
Use in Diseases of
the Head
The humidity of its
bells shines vision
Strengthen weak
gum, and fix teeth
Useful for halitosis
if caught in mouth,
make vision more
powerful, useful for
alopecia as a paint
Useful for alopecia,
enhances hair
growth, shines
vision, useful for
fistula. Green
Cantharides with
honey cure freckle
Useful for eye
pains, eyelash
dissemination, and
hair in eyes, its ash
with honey is useful
for alopecia
Strength Humors Experimental Type Description Name
Astringent,
shining
Astringent
Hot in the
first, dry in
the second
The soft One It’s Bug 2 tree Tharthar 3
(Elm)
Cold in the
first, dry in
the second 4 The complete One Kinks complicated
with interfering
kinks, and at the
kinks there is a
thing like horse tail
smooth Moderate Pure gold
powder
Putrefactive,
burning
Laxative
Hot and
dry in the
second
Hot and
wet
Thanab
al-khail
(horsetail)
One Known Thahab
(Gold)
Golden Species A fly like hornet,
spotted in black
Tharareeh
(Cantharides)
Anyone 5 One Known Thubab (Fly)
1
D: "palpitation" instead of "croup".
2
A and H: "Nabk" instead of "Bug".
1
The author wrote it so: ''Tharthar'', and this is repeated in all of the book, but all of medicine, plant, and linguists have written it: ''dardar'', maybe it's
oversight from the author.
•
(Cold in the first, dry in the second): missing in A.
5
(Anyone): missing in A.
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