خَشْخَاشٌ
Root: خش
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خَشْخَاشٌ
A company: or a numerous company of men: or a company in, or having upon them, arms, or weapons, and coats of mail.
def.2 See also خَشْخَشَةٌ.
def.3 Also A certain plant, well known; [namely, the poppy;] which is of several species; i. e., four; يُسْتَانِىٌّ [or garden-poppy,] which is the white, and this is the most fit for eating, and the best thereof is the fresh and heavy; and مَنْثُورٌ, which is the wild Egyptian; and مُقَرَّنٌ, [app. the horned poppy,] the produce of which has an elongated extremity like the horn of the bull; and زُبْدِىٌّ, [app. the spattling poppy,] which is known by the name of بلبس [a word which I have not been able to find elsewhere]: every one of these is soporiferous, and produces torpidness, and cools: used as a suppository, it produces sleep: and the integument [of the capsule] has a stronger power of producing sleep than the seeds: [or rather the seeds have no narcotic power:] from half a drachm of the integument, with cold water, as a draught, taken early in the morning, and the like at sleep, has a wonderful effect in stopping a looseness characterized by a mixture of humours and by blood, when accompanied by heat and inflammation: it is wonderful also that its solid part confines, and its juice relaxes: and when the root, or lower part, is taken with water, [and boiled] so that the water is reduced to half its quantity, it is beneficial as a remedy for diseases of the liver arising from thick humour: so says the author of the Minháj: the n. un. is with
def.2 See also خَشْخَشَةٌ.
def.3 Also A certain plant, well known; [namely, the poppy;] which is of several species; i. e., four; يُسْتَانِىٌّ [or garden-poppy,] which is the white, and this is the most fit for eating, and the best thereof is the fresh and heavy; and مَنْثُورٌ, which is the wild Egyptian; and مُقَرَّنٌ, [app. the horned poppy,] the produce of which has an elongated extremity like the horn of the bull; and زُبْدِىٌّ, [app. the spattling poppy,] which is known by the name of بلبس [a word which I have not been able to find elsewhere]: every one of these is soporiferous, and produces torpidness, and cools: used as a suppository, it produces sleep: and the integument [of the capsule] has a stronger power of producing sleep than the seeds: [or rather the seeds have no narcotic power:] from half a drachm of the integument, with cold water, as a draught, taken early in the morning, and the like at sleep, has a wonderful effect in stopping a looseness characterized by a mixture of humours and by blood, when accompanied by heat and inflammation: it is wonderful also that its solid part confines, and its juice relaxes: and when the root, or lower part, is taken with water, [and boiled] so that the water is reduced to half its quantity, it is beneficial as a remedy for diseases of the liver arising from thick humour: so says the author of the Minháj: the n. un. is with
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