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About Orpiment

Orpiment or Zarnikh is a type of mineral that is in the group of sulfides.

The crystal structure of this mineral is monoclinic and often appears as masses of dense and laminated flakes, sometimes as a dense set of small prism-shaped and relatively elongated crystals with a pyramidal tip, and sometimes as very small and dense crystals.

Orpiment is found in yellow, orange-yellow, orange, reddish-orange and red colors. But the color of its powder is yellow. Its flaky and scaly masses are opaque. But its crystals are transparent or semi-transparent. Orpiment burnish is pearly or resin-like.

The hardness of orpiment is 1.5 to 2 and its density is 3.4 to 3.5. Orpiment has an excellent cleavage in one direction.

The best Zarnikh is yellow, shiny, and flaky, breaks easily and smells like Sulphur. This mineral is often found in low-temperature hydrothermal veins, and around the side vents of volcanoes and hot springs.

Temperament: Yellow orpiment is in the third degree of hot and dry and the red one is the fourth degree of hot and dry.

Chemical Constituents: Sulfur and Arsenic

Health Benefits

Orpiment calcination is a strong purifier of blood and tonic for sexual power.

Zarnikh and pine resin, if the smoke reaches the throat, is useful for old wet cough. Consuming 0.5 grams of orpiment, 0.5 grams of Oriental Sweetgum, 0.5 grams of Chilgoza Pine fruit and 0.5 grams of almond kernels for several days in a row, and then eating a mixture of wheat flour and almond kernels porridge and fresh tallow helps to cure chronic cough and shortness of breath.

Poultice of this mineral and lime remove excess hair.

Its calcination stops menstrual bleeding and cures phlegm diseases, chronic fever, nervous diseases, polydipsia, joint pain, sperm deficiency, blood diseases, leprosy, and shortness of breath. The use of Zarnikh in poultices helps to heal chronic wounds.

Harms: Raw orpiment causes the humors to rotten and burn the blood, and eating 5 grams of it causes poisoning, severe heartburn, intestinal ulcers, joint pain, blackening of the skin, and death. Too much poultice of Zarnikh causes the skin to turn black, reduce sexual power and weak erection.

Dose: Raw orpiment 0.5 gram. Its calcination 0.03 grams.

Modifiers: Sweet almond oil, yellow myrobalan peel to remove the putridity of the humors and blood burning.

Rubbing safflower and rice flour to blacken the skin from its poultice.

Raw and not calcined Zarnikh should not be used orally. If someone is poisoned by eating it, make a drink from rose water, saffron, rock candy and warm water and feed him or her with plenty of this drink plus lepidium latifolium and sweet almond oil. So that he vomits several times. Then give him soaked water of rice and non-alcoholic beer and inject this liquid through his or her rectum to cleanse their bowl. Finally, feed him oily soups, sweet almond oil, fresh milk, psyllium  glaze, marshmallow seed glaze, and quince seed glaze. 

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