Acaroid Resins
Acaroid resins, also known as Gum Acaroides. Gum Acroides. Grass-tree Gum. Botany Bay Gum, are obtained by spontaneous exudation from the stems of the plants, which are usually shrubs, (Xanthorrhoea hastilis), and (Xanthorrhoea australis), they were once used for various purposes, including anti-diarrhea medicine, confectionery glaze, and furniture varnish. The xanthorrhoea resins have been suggested as possessing some value in perfumery; but they appear to be inferior for this purpose to benzoin, storax and the balsams of Peru and Tolu. Their medicinal properties appear to be likewise not well marked. As early as 1795 acaroid resin was said by Kite to neither vomit, purge nor bind the belly, nor to act materially as a diuretic or diaphoretic. Dr. Fish employed it in the form of tincture with opium in fluxus hepaticus and the colliquative diarrhoea of phthisis, and it has been recommended in chronic catarrhs.
| Botanical Name: | Xanthorrhoea hastilis R.Br. |
| Family: | Xanthorrhoeaceae |
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| Aroma Description: | Balsamic, cinnamic and sweet |
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| Historical Uses: | Mostly used in the varnish and lacquar industries, the resinoids and tinctures are excellent fixatives and used in low cost soap fragrances and industrial perfumes. Small medicinal use. |
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