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Sumac

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A tannin-rich leaf and gall material used to tan, mordant, and brown-dye cloth and leather. Not oak-gall alone, and not a spice-sumac food dump.

Also known as Rhus

  • Sumac is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists sumac (ῥοῦς) among astringent leaf and fruit drugs for flux and ulcer speech. A named sumac in that handbook, not a spice-sumac food dump alone and not oak-gall as the neighboring tannin already filed beside it.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Sumac is used in Dye.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica treats sumac among tannin materials that darken and prepare skins and cloth as well as drugs. A named sumac dye/tannin use in that handbook, not sumac-medicine-dioscorides as the astringent drug seat alone.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

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