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Cutch

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A brown tannin dye from Acacia catechu heartwood extract, used on cotton and leather. Not catechu as a pharmacy synonym dump alone, and not oak-gall.

Also known as Catechu · Acacia catechu

  • Cutch is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists lycium / Asian astringent extracts among imported drug materials neighboring catechu-type tannins. A named cutch in that handbook neighborhood, not acacia as the Mediterranean gum-tree already walked and not a leather-tanning dump alone.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Cutch is used in Dye.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica neighborhood of lycium / astringent Asian extracts includes materials used to brown and tan as well as to drug. A named cutch dye/tannin use in that handbook speech, not cutch-medicine-dioscorides as the pharmacy seat alone.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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