baurac

بورقbawraq

n. bwrqnatron (compound of various salts containing mainly sodium carbonate) (min.)
  1. Albuzale Simp. §5.8: Sal gemma est calidum et siccum in quarto gradu. Purgat flegma et melancoliam et humores grossos et viscosos et de proprietate sua facit descendere medicinas a stomacho. Et hoc idem facit baurac, id est sal nitrum

    Laba.: وليشاركه البورق في هذه الخاصّيّة wa-la-yušārikuhū l-bawraqu fī hāḏihī l-ḫāṣṣiyyati

  2. Albuzale Simp. §11.59: Baurac, id est, sal nitrum, calidum et siccum in quarto gradu. Dicit Galienus quod quando teritur et miscetur cum aceto et oleo et ponitur in oculis, aufert albedinem oculorum

  1. 3 Albuzale Simp.

< Arabic < Persian būrah. Lokotsch 1927, no. 356. See EI² Suppl. Goltz 1972, 248–250. Cf. borax.

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