Kaff Maryam ?
Waleed Bin Rabee'ah Al-Abshami ~ الوليد بن ربيعة العَبْشَمي
Assalam O Alaikum,
I have never heard about the reference you have mentioned below.
You are talking about the plant which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastatica
Nabi Booti (as the name is famous among the people from Pakistan / India) is also called Kaff Maryam OR Maryam Booti, it is sold near many sacred sites of Makkah & Madinah.
Kaff Maryam is used with a false ~ religious belief that it would help to deliver a child easily, when soaked in water, the plant opens its fingers which is linked with an ease in delivery, but the curling & recurling phenomena of this herb is natural ~ can be repeated many times, when the wet flower dries out, it curls & closes the fingers (when it is completely dehydrated), similarly, the fingers open when a dried the flower is rehydrated.
But as a medicinal herb, Kaff Maryam helps against problems like Uterine fibroids, influenza, epilepsy, headaches, etc.
Read the Arabic article at http://hawaj.khayma.com/ashab/kafmarym.htm
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What is Nabi Booti.. ?
Nabi booty is an Herb that is found in Medina. It is said that Once a person came to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. and said RasoolAllah s.a.w. I do not have children please give me a child. Rasool Allah s.a.w. said Ask Allah he will give. The man said NO. I will ask only You please give me a Child. Again RasoolAllah s.a.w. said Ask Allah he will give. Again the man Asked RasoolAllah s.a.w. then a wahi came to RasoolAllah s.a.w. which asked RasoolALLAH s.a.w to pluck the herb which is growin on the ground and give to this person. And RasoolAllah s.a.w. did pluck the plant and gave it to that person. and after eating that herb the person got a child.
That plant or Herb is known as Nabi Booti and is available in 5 Saudi Riyal near Jable Uhud.
