Parts of the Treatise on Plants

Some call it Myoktonon Original: Muqitis, a transliteration of the Greek myoktonon, meaning "mouse-killer." This refers to a type of Aconite or Wolfsbane.. This is a plant that has three or four wide leaves, similar to the leaves of the plant called white Phlomos Original: Fulamis abyad, referring to the White Mullein (Verbascum). and the leaves of the cucumber, except that they are smaller, and both the leaves and stems have a rough texture. It has a stalk about a span A span is an ancient unit of length, roughly 9 inches, representing the distance between the tip of the thumb and the little finger. in length, and a root resembling a scorpion’s tail that shines like a pearl. Some people claim that if the root of this plant is brought near a scorpion, it paralyzes it, and if it is brought near a young hare, the animal flees to save itself. It is beneficial when used in eye medicines to soothe pain. If meat is seasoned with it and fed to leopards, pigs, wolves, or other predatory beasts, it kills them.

Another Variety of Aconitum Original: Amubiyutan, from the Greek akoniton.

A botanical illustration of a plant with a green central stalk that branches out horizontally. The branches are covered with small, green, serrated leaves. Curving from the stems are several segmented, brownish-red structures that strongly resemble scorpion tails. On the far left, the root system is depicted as a dried, brownish, bulbous base with small extending fibers.

Some people call it Lotos Original: Lutus.. It grows in great abundance in the lands known as Kariki Original: Kariki, referring to Cilicia, a coastal region in southern Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) famous in antiquity for its medicinal plants..