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^ Ghayat Al-Hakim
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preferred mentioning this formula in this chapter rather
than the later chapters were I talk about the specialties of
each plant, because there was a direct connection with this
formula to the Nabataean groups. There is another plant
that is called the lion grass, this plant is harmful to all the
plants around it and the way to avoid its harm is by
ordering a maid to hold a white rooster with a comb and
to walk around the location of the plant holding and
moving the rooster till the rooster starts to flap his wings
and once he does that several times it will cause the plant
to dry and stop its harmful affect on the other plants, the
rooster scares the plant and causes it to dry out.
Spikenard is also one of the plants that have a weird
effect on birds if they smell it as it causes the birds to
remain with the plant and the)' cannot separate from it and
on some of the birds it has the effect of continuious
screaming and that is really weird.
Daghreeth said that he realized from roaming the
Indian regions and other places that each land has a
different special plant; like the elderberry plant grows only
in Egypt, the ebony plant grows in Sudan, the black wood
grows in Africa, the banana and prickly pear plants grow
in Morocco region and others that are on the same line
from the east like bush-grass. So all regions have their own
plants that only grows there and not anywhere else and
not necessarily the nature of the region like the air and
water that made the land suitable for certain plants to
grow in some and not in other regions. Then the gathering
of the nature of the land and the specialty of the place that
it grows in forms the first reason of the line that region is
with the planets that pass by its horizon and causes things
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