الفُرَاسِيُونُ

, (K, TA,) with damm, (TA,) The كُرَّاث جَبَلِىّ [lit. mountain-leek]: (K, TA:) so it is said to be: it is a four-sided أَصْل [apparently meaning stem], from which rise many white, foursided, branches, whereon sometimes grow rough leaves like the thumb; and it has a blossom inclining to blueness and yellowness: (TA:) it has the property of clearing the complexion, dissolves thick humours, is diuretic, opens obstructions, and is beneficial as a remedy for the bite of the dog, (K, TA,) i. e. of the mad dog: (TA:) [it is now applied in Cairo to euphrasia: (Forskål, Descr. Anim. &c., p. 145:) and marrubium plicatum. (Idem, Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lxviii. and 213.)]