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Dragon's blood

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A red resin used as varnish and pigment — Dracaena and rattan sources confused in trade. Not cinnabar, and not blood.

Also known as Dragon blood

  • Dragon's blood is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists dragon’s-blood resin among astringent drugs. First-century pharmacological use of the red resin, not mineral cinnabar already walked and not a fantasy dragon-blood slogan.

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

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