- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Cistaceae
- English Names
- Ladanum
- Sweet Cistus
- Cretan Rock Rose
- Natural Habitat
- Spain
- Portugal
- Candia
- Cyprus
- Greece
- Southern France
- North Africa
- Part(s) Used
- Herba Cisti
- Gummi Ladanum (mainly exuded by Cistus creticus and Cistus ladanifems)
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- Constituent(s)
- resin (containing ladene
- ladaniol
- gumand a bitter principle)
- wax
- Action
- purgative
- nervine
- stimulant
- astringent
- haemostatic
- revulsive; the gum is chiefly used by the Turcs for fumigation. The gum is also employed in making plasters
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