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in these plants that does not happen in other plants in
other regions.
Adam also confirmed that the changes in the nature of
the plants and their effects come from the effect of the
planets on some regions and he gave an example of some
from the east and the west regions. So he pointed out that
in the Andalos regions on an island mere called Kades in
the green sea, a place where no ship ever sailed, there is a
plant that grows in the spring which looks like wild
watercress and it is called in the language of the
Kasdanyeen and they are a group of the Nabataeans. Al-
Helfaan or the Askataas in the language of the people in
that region. The people in that area are sheepherders so
they feed that plant to the sheep in the spring and the
sheep themselves love to eat it and when they milk the
sheep and drink the milk they get intoxicated or if the)' eat
the seeds of the plant they get drunk like they had alcohol
and the effect of the intoxication would vary for each
person like the effect of alcoholic drinks in the blood of
each person- Adam said that the people in that region
know that when the summer comes the plant stops
growing and disappears so they keep the milk and the
seeds by drying them and mixing them with the wheat
flower and they eat it piece by piece. They know mat it still
intoxicates them in that shape but they say it is good to
calm the people down in the summer heat.
Siglimasah is one of the close towns to Al-Andalos
region, there is a tree there that grows to be about three
cubits tall or little taller sometimes. The leaves of this tree
looks like the laurel plant, if any person made an wreath
from this tree and wore it on his head and kept it all day.
that person will not sleep as long as he has the wreath on
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