Colorful serghina incense - 30g - سرغينة - sarghina sarghine-- antibacterial, deodorant, fortifying, protection against evil eye, purifying and protects against magic

Serghina, sarghine (botanical name: corrigiola thelephifolia) is a plant with small white flowers and fibrous and knotty roots of the caryophyllaceae family. Moroccan herbalists know it very well. They claim that its primary use is medicinal, since it is fortifying, diuretic, tonic, deodorant and antibacterial. Women in Fez prepare sarghina roots themselves using an ancestral technique. They wash them with orange blossom water, color them red, yellow or green, cut them into small pieces and leave to dry in the shade for several days. Those who market them sell this incense with powerful scents in small cups with small pieces of alum and agalloche wood “oud el kmari”.

According to popular beliefs, fumigations of the root of this plant have magical properties, particularly against the evil eye. Some very old treatises on Arab medicine cite the therapeutic virtues of the serghina decoction or "perfume of the Berbers", in particular its aphrodisiac power, specifying that it is good to breathe its fumigations because it strengthens the brain, treats coryza, perfumes and deodorizes the body. We understand better why it is offered in the bride's trousseau. Our mischievous ancestors lulled us with stories of magic. It is our turn today to pay tribute to them by protecting the cultivation and export of this little plant which, it seems, only grows here.