Description
Scarlet Branch Resin
Dracaena cochinchinensis
Scarlet From Bible
Cultivation: Wild harvested
Country of Origin: Yunnan
Extraction Method: Tapped from fallen branches
Parts of Plant Used: Resin Latex Sap Extracted from Branches
(Also known as Dragon’s Blood, Red Calamus, or Bible Scarlet Branch)
Used for Wounds, Arthritis, Gums and Teeth, Bone Spurs, Diarrhea, etc. Used as a potential cancer drug by some pharmaceutical companies Check out link research. Commonly known as Dragon’s Blood*, this is the resinous sap which is also a popular resin to burn for incense in its resin tears or powdered form. Will stain clothing and Skin.
Traditional Folk Medicine used externally to wash and promote the healing of wounds. Sometimes you will find this resin sold as red rock opium and has nothing to do with the opium plant. This essential oil is from both Bark and Resin sap. This oil is a resin that is bright to deep blood red in color.
Benefits: Anti-fungal, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-microbialAnti-tumor, Anti-viral, Astringent, Collagen Regeneration, Haemostatic, and positive thinking, overcome shyness, become a peacemaker, have courage, and strength.
Often used as an aid in scarring recovery for burns and is used on Kambo application. A wondrous broad-spectrum gift from the blood of the trees to the peoples of the World! See this article Dragon’s Blood Sap below reference links. As Storage Medium For Avulsed Teeth: In Vitro Study of Cell Viability different species but a good read – PubMed (nih.gov)
This Tree symbolizes strength, protection, covering, warm healing, and purification. Most likely this red tree bark, resin/sap was used to create the scarlet dye in garments in the middle east. This tree can grow both in tropical and desert climates. Deeply sweet and intoxicating Scarlet Dragon’s Blood resin! It is virtually the only dragon’s blood resin with an aroma without a latex liquor plain aroma before it is burned.
Some Scholars, tells us the color scarlet red found in historical texts including the Bible is known as scarlet or crimson was made from a sap of many Dracaena species of trees often referred to as scarlet resin, scarlet branch resin, or scarlet tree. After it was harvested and was crushed, it produced a bright red powder that was used to create this pigment. Quantities of this resin are known only to exist in Yemen, but other species of trees are found in countries such as China, Peru, Egypt and Spain that produce same red in color and is from different Dracaena tree species.
Yunnan Dragon’s Blood resin is sustainably harvested resin. The Yunnan people have developed methods of harvesting the resin from the tree’s leaves and fallen branches instead of the bark and heartwood. The qualities of the leaf and branch resin is identical to those collected from tapping the tree, and the tree is not harmed in any way since the leaves are shed naturally from the tree and some branches naturally fall when tree is in off season as its branches grows.
Rahab may have used this resin to dye her scarf or cord red that hung outside her window as a signal for the spies to save her as they had promised.
There is a midrash that says that it was from a tree a red sap resin was used to dye the garments red which was used in the Temple. This same liquid sap (not essential oil) can turn white when rubbed into the skin. We are told in the Biblical texts to dye garments red and that sin is scarlet made white.
Bible texts of Inspiration:
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the L-rd,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
The blessing we read over the Mother of the home who is called Eshet Chayil (Woman of G-d a Woman of Valor) we read:
Proverbs 31:21
She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
There are texts which do possibly allude to this resin or tree called Scarlet. Some commentaries say this refers to scarlet yarn but it is implied and adding to the text. The texts only say ” Scarlet” or “the scarlet,” not scarlet yarn or thread which is not in the texts anywhere, neither is there the word for “bound – קשר” or “string/cord/thread חוּט in the text to indicate it was yarn which we should see is the word חוּט or the words חוּט שְׁנִי Scarlet thread which is not in these texts below at all. because the other two are plant Branches one would conclude scarlet is also a plant tree branch as well.
Leviticus 14:4 | Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedarwood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus 14:6 | As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedarwood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Leviticus 14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedarwood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus 14:51 | And he shall take the cedarwood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
Leviticus 14:52 | And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedarwood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
Numbers 19:6 | And the priest shall take cedarwood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
The word used for scarlet in these verses is שְׁנִי and reading from an old Hebrew Lexicon First Publication in 1875 by Asher Publishers in London says this scarlet was used in purification ceremony and it is of plant material. The old Lexicon is “A Compendious and Complete Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to The Old Testament” by Davies, Benjamin. Later Revised in 1880 by Edward C. Mitchell Published by Warren F. Draper, Andover, and these versions were later changed to red thread.
There are some secular scholars’ of Bible commentaries that say it is possible these text are referring to the stone Cinnabar which was used in ancient times in China and Egypt as dye. However, this stone is quite toxic with mercury. In the middle east it would make more sense it is the resin or branch from the Scarlet tree Dracaena cinnabari from Yemen or Scarlet Branch Dracaena cochinchinensis from Yunnan.
Notice in Joshua 2:18 has the correct words are together that reference binding scarlet cord/ thread.
הנּה אנחנוּ באים בּארץ את־תּקות חוּט השּׁני הזּה תּקשׁרי בּחלּון אשׁר הורדתּנוּ בו ואת־אביך ואת־אמּך ואת־אחיך ואת כּל־בּית אביך תּאספי אליך הבּיתה׃
“Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by and you shall bring your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all your father’s household, to your household.”
So, in conclusion there is no words for binding or thread in the Leviticus texts above. Those texts are indeed referring to a plant tree branch called Scarlet.
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References:
https://www.drugs.com/npc/dragon-s-blood.html
http://www.medicinehunter.com/dragons-blood
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874107005387
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27982190/
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