שמונה – the חלד/mole ,weasel and the עכבר /mouse, rat , the אנקה/gecko, house-lizard;כח /lizard, salamander; the לטאה/lizard; the חמט/sand lizard; the תנשמת/chameleon, newt; and the צב/great lizard/tortoise (all of which are found in Leviticus 11:29-30) which are enumerated in [the Torah portion of “On the eighth day”/ויהי ביום השמיני.

הצדן חייב – for there is of their species that is hunted.

והחובל בהן חייב – for they have hide and it has a wound that does not return [to health] (as the blood is collected and tied up in one place and is not reabsorbed– see Rashi on Talmud Shabbat 107b), one is liable because of severing which is a derivative of threshing; alternatively, since they have a hide, the hide is colored with the blood that is gathered and tied up, and he is liable before of dyeing.

ושאר שקצים ורמשים - such as worms and snails and scorpions, one who wounds them is exempt, as they lack a hide.

שלא לצורך פטור – for none of their species is hunted.

חיה ועוף ברשותו. הצדן פטור - for they are hunted and standing [alive].

החובל בהן חייב – for they have hide and the one who wounds them is not liable in all of these that are taught in our Mishnah other than when in need of blood , but if one didn’t wound them other than to damage them, we hold that (see Mishnah Shabbat, Chapter 13, Mishnah 3): “All those who perform an act (on the Sabbath) by which they do ruin, are exempt [from sin-offering].”

אין עושין הילמי – a lot of salt water that they place into vegetables that pickle them to endure.

אבל עושים – a small amount of salt water in order to dip his bread or into a cooked dish.

והלא היא הילמי בין מרובה בין מעט – that is to say, if that which is a lot is prohibited, so too a little bit is also prohibited, they would say (see Talmud Shabbat 108b) that a lot of work is prohibited and a little bit of work is permitted but both these and those are prohibited because it is like preparing and repairing the food that is placed in it in order that it will endure.

ואלו הן – the permitted [things one can do]: put oil into the water at first, before he puts in salt, or puts the oil in the salt at first before putting in the water for the oil impairs it/delays it, as the salt does not mix well with the water and weakens its strength but he should not put in water and salt at the outset and afterwards the oil for from the time that he puts in the water and the salt together, it appears like he is preparing, and the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yosi.

אזוב יון – a kind of hyssop that grows amongst thorns and kills the worms that are in the belly.

שאינו מאכל בריאים – and evidence of this thing is one eats it for medicinal purposes [only] and it is prohibited from consuming it on the Sabbath as a decree lest he grind drugs which is a derivative of grinding/milling.

אבל אוכל הוא את היועזר – for many eat it when they are healthy. “Pulio” in the foreign tongue – which destroys the worms that are in the liver.

אבוב רועה – a tree that grows singularly and it has no branches and in Arabic we call it “Atzel R’ee” and it is good for someone who was damaged from drinking tainted water (see Talmud Shabbat 109b).

כל האוכלים אוכל אדם לרפואה – anything that a person consumes and the healthy people eat it, a person can eat it on Shabbat, even though he intends it to be for medicinal purposes.

חוץ ממי דקלים – they are two trees from the species of date-palms that were in the land of Israel and between them was a spring of water, and the person who drinks from them a first cup loosens the fecal matter that is in his bowels and the second cup loosens his bowels and the third cup cleanses his bowels until he releases them clear in the manner that he caused them to enter.

וכוס של עיקרין – they take sap of the tree that is called “Zag Alexandria” in Arabic and grass that we call “Esbah Elsdor” – which is a grass of joy and saffron/crocus and we crush it and put its dust in wine and the woman with a flux drinks from them three cups and is healed.

מפני שהן לירוקה – someone with the illness called jaundice and if he will drink from them, he will be cured from the illness of jaundice, but will remain childless and not give birth, and for that reason it is called the cup of sterility.

לצמאו – if he is not sick [but merely thirsty].

לא יגמע את החומץ – and vomit it out, for the evidence of this thing is that it is for medicinal purposes [only], but if he swallows It and absorb it, it is better.

לא יסוך בהם יין וחומץ – for a person does not anoint himself other than for medicinal purposes.

אבל לא שמן ורד – because it costs a great deal and evidence of this thing is that it is for medicinal purposes.

שכן דרכן לסוך – without a wound

ור' שמעון אומר כו' - but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon (though the note below indicates that the word "אין" is a scribal error – and that according to Maimonides, the law is according to Rabbi Shimon).