Sanguis Draconis, Dragon’s Blood, Xue Jie 血竭Xue Jie (TCM)
Damm ul Akhwain (Unani) Raktaniryaas, Khoon-kharaabaa (Daemonorops draco, Ayurveda) Khoonkharaba, Heeradokhi (Dracaena cinnabari, Ayurveda) |
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Traditional source of Dragon's Blood according to
Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640 |
Dracaena cinnabar
Balfour, I.B., Botany of Socotra, 1888 |
Daemonorops draco (syn. Calamus draco)
Martius, C.F.P. von, Historia Naturalis Palmarum, 1826
Martius, C.F.P. von, Historia Naturalis Palmarum, 1826
A ball of Dragon's Blood with a Gold Star Seal
(Adam, 2022)
(Adam, 2022)
Botanical name:
Daemonorops draco (syn. Calamus draco, D. adscendens);
Other species are also used. Various other plants have supplied Dragon's Blood too.
Parts used:
Gum-resin
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Sweet, Salty.
Classifications:
2G. CLEANSING 2N. REPELLENTS 2O. ASTRINGENTS 2P. HEMOSTATICS 2T. GLUTINATE 2X. INCARNATIVE 2Z. CICATRIZING
4e. STOMACHIC
Daemonorops draco (syn. Calamus draco, D. adscendens);
Other species are also used. Various other plants have supplied Dragon's Blood too.
Parts used:
Gum-resin
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Sweet, Salty.
Classifications:
2G. CLEANSING 2N. REPELLENTS 2O. ASTRINGENTS 2P. HEMOSTATICS 2T. GLUTINATE 2X. INCARNATIVE 2Z. CICATRIZING
4e. STOMACHIC
Uses:
1. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis, Eases Pain: (West, TCM, Unani)
-Trauma, Fractures, Sprains.
2. Stops Bleeding: (West, TCM, Unani)
3. Externally:
-topically as a powder to stop Bleeding
Dose
In Pills or Powder: 500mg–3 grams
Correctives:
... available in PRO version
Substitutes:
... available in PRO version
In Pills or Powder: 500mg–3 grams
Correctives:
... available in PRO version
Substitutes:
... available in PRO version
Main Combinations:
1. Trauma, Bruising:
i. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
ii. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
iii. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
iv. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
v. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
2. To stop Bleeding:
i. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
ii. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
iii. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
3. Kidney and Bladder Ulcers:
i. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
ii. Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
4. Non-healing Wounds and Ulcers, Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
5. Heat of the Eyes, Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version, Mastic, Roses, made into a paste with Egg white, Vinegar and Rose water, apply to temples and forehead.
6. As an ointment for Hemorrhoids, Dragon's Blood with ... available in PRO version
Major Formulas:
Powder for Hemoptysis (Galen)
Powder to Break Blood Above and Below (Nicholas)
Powder to Move Blood (Wirtzung)
Powder of Amber (Unani)
Powder for Excess Menstruation (Serapion)
Troches of Gordon (Trochisci Gordonii)
Astringent Pills
Tincture for Blood Stagnation
Qi Li San (TCM)
Zhen Xiang Jiao Nag (Precious Aromatic Capsules) (TCM)
Die Da Wan
Cautions:
1. Not used during Pregnancy
2. Not used in marked weakness
3. Long-term use harms the Kidneys according to Unani.
Main Preparations used:
Purified Gum
1. Not used during Pregnancy
2. Not used in marked weakness
3. Long-term use harms the Kidneys according to Unani.
Main Preparations used:
Purified Gum
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'The substance which is mentioned by Dioscorides under the name of [?], as a costly pigment and medicine brought from Africa, and which is also described by Pliny who distinguished it from minium, was certainly the resin called Dragon's Blood. It was not however that of the Rotang Palm, Calamus Draco, or even of any tree of the Indian Archipelago, but was on the contrary a production of the island of Socotra.
Dragon's blood is, we believe, not named by any of the earlier voyagers to the India islands. Ibn Batuta, who visited both Java and Sumatra between A.D. 1325 and 1349, and notices their producing benzoin, cloves, camphor, and aloes-wood, is silent about dragon's blood. Barbosa, whose intelligent narrative (A.D. 1514) of the East Indies is full of reference to the trade and productions of the different localities he visited, states that aloes and dragon's blood are produced in Socotra, but makes no mention of the latter commodity as found at Malacca, Java, Sumatra, or Borneo. The fact we wish to prove is corroborated by the accounts of early commercial intercourse between the Chinese and Arabs recently published by Bretschneider. |
From the 10th to the 15th century there was carried on between these nations a trade, the objects of which were not only the productions of the Arabian Gulf and countries further north, but also those of the Indian Archipelago. One of the islands with which the Arabs and Persians carried on a great commerce was Sumatra, whence they obtained the precious camphor so much valued by the Chinese, but not, so far as it appears, the resin dragon's blood. As to the productions brought from Arabia they are enumerated as Ostriches, Olibanum, Liquid Storax, Myrrh, and Dragon's Blood, besides a few other articles not yet determined. It is worthy of remark that the Chinese are still the principal consumers of dragon's blood, though like the rest of mankind they have to content themselves with the plentiful drug of Sumatra and Borneo, instead of the more ancient sort produced in Socotra.
The first clear account of the production of the resin in India is that given by Rumphius, who in his Herbarium Amboinense describes the process by which it is collected at Palembang.' (Pharmacographia, Fluckiger & Hanbury, 1879) |