الفَاوَانِيَا
Root: فاوانيا
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الفَاوَانِيَا
i. q.
عُودُ الصَّلِيبِ, [both of which appel-lations are now applied to The common peony, pæonia officinalis, and this is what is meant in what here follows,] i. e. the
كهينا, [app. for كَهْيَانَا, which is a Pers. word, meaning the plant above-mentioned,] a plant less than a cubit [in height], having a purple flower, not found except in the day of the sun's taking its abode in Libra; [its root has, from ancient times, and in various countries, been held in high repute for medicinal properties; and various fancied virtues are ascribed to it:] it is hot, attenuant, resolutive, diuretic, has the property of stopping hæmorrhage, and is beneficial as a remedy against the
نِقْرِس [i. e. gout, or particularly podagra,] and epilepsy (الصَّرْع), even by its being suspended [on the patient]. [See also يَبْرُوحٌ, in art. برح.]
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