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Medicinal Properties of Cannabis According to Medieval Manuscripts of Azerbaijan

Farid U. Alakbarov

Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics · 2001

A study of cannabis in the medical and pharmacognostic manuscripts of medieval Azerbaijan, drawn from the collection of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in Baku. Alakbarov reports on sources written in Old Azerbaijani, Persian and Arabic and dating between the ninth and eighteenth centuries, among them the Tuhfat al-Mu'minin and the Tibbnama, and records the use of the roots, resin, leaves and seeds of Cannabis sativa in traditional medicine. The author notes that both Cannabis sativa and Cannabis ruderalis occur in the region, the latter as a wild plant of the Major Caucasus and Nakhichevan, and that a number of the recipes had gone out of use before being deciphered here.

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Published1 Mar 2001

TypeJournal article

VenueJournal of Cannabis Therapeutics

Year2001

DOI10.1300/J175v01n02_02

CountryAzerbaijan

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2001-03-01 2026-08-11 Medicinal Properties of Cannabis According to Medieval Manuscripts of Azerbaijan Journal article History Farid U. Alakbarov Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 2001 10.1300/J175v01n02_02 https://doi.org/10.1300/J175v01n02 02 A study of cannabis in the medical and pharmacognostic manuscripts of medieval Azerbaijan, drawn from the collection of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in Baku. Alakbarov reports on sources written in Old Azerbaijani, Persian and Arabic and dating between the ninth and eighteenth centuries, among them the Tuhfat al-Mu'minin and the Tibbnama, and records the use of the roots, resin, leaves and seeds of Cannabis sativa in traditional medicine. The author notes that both Cannabis sativa and Cannabis ruderalis occur in the region, the latter as a wild plant of the Major Caucasus and Nakhichevan, and that a number of the recipes had gone out of use before being deciphered here. Azerbaijan