Sanguis Draconis, Dragons Blood Xue Jie 血竭 Xue Jie (TCM)Damm ul Akhwain (Unani)Raktaniryaas, Khoon-kharaba (Daemonorops draco, Ayurveda)Khoonkharaba, Heeradokhi (Dracaena cinnabari, Ayurveda) Sanguis DraconisOrtus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Traditional source of Dragon’s Blood according toParkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640 Dracaena cinnabariBalfour, I.B., Botany of Socotra, 1888 Daemonorops draco (syn. Calamus draco)Martius, C.F.P. von, Historia Naturalis Palmarum, 1826 Calamus rotangIcones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1804 Dracaena cinnabari, the original source of ‘Dragon’s Blood’ on Socotra Island, Yemen(Photo by Rod Waddington) (Wikimedia) A ball of Dragon’s Blood with a Gold Star Seal(Adam, 2022) High quality Dragon’s Blood resin from China(Adam, 2024) Botanical name: Daemonorops spp.The traditional source was Dracaena cinnabari (Convallariaceae) found on the Island of Socotra (Yemen) but is largely unavailable today.A number of species have supplied the market: D. draco (syn. Calamus draco, D. adscendens); D. didynophyllos D. micranthus D. propingus (Malaya) D. draconcellus (Borneo) D. terminalis yields the Chinese Dragons Blood. A number of other genus have reportedly supplied ‘Dragon’s Blood’ including: the fruit of Calamus rotang (of the East Indies) the trunk of Pterocarpus draco, Pterocarpus santalinus Dracaena draco (Canary Islands) Dalbergia monetaria, several species of Croton. Parts used: Gum-resinSeveral types were distinguished: Sanguis Draconis in Granis: grains of Dragons Blood Sanguis…

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