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RESINS & WOODS	MAGICKAL PROPERTIES
Price: $7 each PAN Members $6.30, except Makko powder $11 (PAN $9.90) and Black Diamond $5 (PAN $4.50) All items listed here are available in 100g, 500g and 1 kilo packs except Black Diamond and Makko. Please contact us for a price on the 500g and 1 kilo packs.

Frankincense available as granules or powder - 30g	Used throughout the ages to enhance spirituality, mental perception, meditation, prayer and consciousness, frankincense soothes the spirit as it slows and deepens breathing.
Myrrh available as granules or powder - 25g	This small scrubby tree from the Middle East and northeast Africa produces a precious gum which has been traded for thousands of years. In the Bible, it is a gift to baby Jesus from of one of the Wise Men. Myrrh has been used to improve digestion and boost the immune system. Various traditions have used it to treat coughs, gum disease, wounds, candida and the treatment of skin diseases. Myrrh has been used since antiquity to inspire prayer and meditation, and to fortify and revitalize the spirit.
Frankincense & Myrrh blend - 25g
Copal - White available as granules or powder - 30g	A wonderfully fresh, soft white copal resin with delightful bright and lively notes. Cleansing, refreshing, meditation
Copal - Golden pieces - 30g	Gold Copal has a gentle, soft and warming fragrance. To the ancient Mayan's, the Divine God of the Earth extracted copal resin from the tree of life and gave it to humans as a gift. Copal is said to be cleansing and aid in mental and spiritual endeavors. It opens the soul and stimulates creativity and imagination
Copal - Dark pieces - 30g	Night Copal, as it is often called, carries the secret energies of the night. It is grounding and connects us to deeper levels of our inner spirit. Black Copal has a strong, mysterious, heavy, balsamic, even mystical fragrance
Dragons Blood available as granules or powder - 10g	Dragon's blood resin creates a very strong herbal and spicy fragrance. It's considered to be cleansing and as such, has been added in small amounts to Frankincense mixtures used in churches. Dragon's blood is a deep red, shiny resin used in incense burning. The fruit of the tree is covered with scales. The resin seeps out between the scales, is collected, cleansed and then melted. Dragon's blood resin has been used for thousands of years in India as part of their rituals.
Frankincense/Dragons Blood Mix - 20g
Black Diamond 15gm NB: $5	Burn to clear negativity. This is a powerful and sweet-scented resin from India.
Sandalwood available as chips or powder - 25g	Sandalwood produces a warm, sweet, buttery, woody fragrance and has been one of the most prized incense ingredients for thousands of years. Early on in India, people observed that termites never attack sandalwood. For that reason, they considered it a symbol of vitality. Sandalwood has long been used in Ayurvedic medicine as a remedy for bladder and kidney infections, inflammations, skin problems, respiratory problems and many other illnesses. The fragrance of sandalwood creates an relaxing and harmonizing atmosphere of calm and supports the search for inner peace, reflection and balance.
Benzoin - Sumatra available as pieces or powder - 30g	Benzoin resin has a sweet, balsamlike fragrance resembling vanilla. It does not have a very pleasing aroma by itself but when mixed with other ingredients, it develops into a wonderful aromatic pleasure. Long used since antiquity as an incense ingredient by many civilizations. Known in Europe during the middle ages as "Friar's Balsam." The natural gum is collected from deep incisions made into the tree trunk; it hardens on exposure to the air and is collected. Benzoin is warm, relaxing and calming and as such is good to use in the evening mixed with sandalwood. It has been known to stimulate imagination and good for use in creative work.
Pinion Pine resin - 15g	Pinon Pine brings a clearing, balsamic bouquet to any incense mixture. It's also wonderful to burn by itself. Pinon resin is cleansing, strengthening, warming. Used by Native American cultures for it's spiritual and healing properties.
Australian Pine resin - 25g
Aloes Wood powder - 7g	Aloeswood comes from the heartwood and roots of the evergreen tree aquilaria agallocha. Some trees become infected by a fungus and, as an immunal response, the tree produces a resin to ward off the fungus. It's this precious resin that has been revered for thousands of years by many cultures as the most treasured incense ingredient on Earth!
Camphor powder - 20g	From the magnificent camphor trees, which are considered holy by the Chinese, we are given the gift of the natural translucent crystals of borneol camphor. Camphor powder has a smooth, very pleasant cleansing and uplifting fragrance. Very little is needed to give any incense mixture a fresh, wonderful cleansing aroma. It's said to strengthen awareness and be helpful in maintaining concentration. As such, it's often added to morning meditation incense mixtures. Fragrant camphor excretes from the camphor trees naturally through cracks in the trunk and bark. It's also harvested from the fissures that run just under the bark of the tree. Warning: For incense use only. Keep out of the reach of children. Do not take internally. Ingestion can cause severe health problems.
Dammar granules - 12g	Dammar resin, also known as cat-eye resin, lifts the spirit and brings light to the darkness of the soul. Dammar resin is said to be particularly useful to combat sadness, depression and melancholy.
Gum Arabic granules - 25g	Burnt traditionally to enhance spirituality and for purification purposes. Will purify area of negativity.
Elemi Gum - 8g	Elemi produces a bright lemony, woody fragrance with a hint of fennel, frankincense and grass. Elemi is known to be clarifying and cleansing with energizing properties. It stimulates mental ability and works well for morning meditation, tai chi or yoga exercises. It creates a spirit of hopefulness and is said to relieve depression. Traditionally, people use elemi with substances that are refreshing and cleansing such as mastic, lemongrass, and sweet grass.
Labdanum liquid - 4g	Labdanum has fascinated people for many centuries. It is said to reach deep into our subconscious and bring back memories, pictures, feelings and moods. Labdanum originates from the rockrose bush, which emits a resinous dark brown mass from its leaves and twigs. To this day it is still gathered by driving goats into the thick forests overgrown with labdanum bushes. The goats eat their fill from the branches and the sticky resin gets stuck on their beards. When they return, their owners carefully comb the resin our of their beards. Also used is a rakelike instrument with long strips of leather attached to it, which they drag across the bushes to collect the resin. Labdanum strengthens the body and provides warmth and sensuality. It is very grounding. The fragrance of Labdanum is very complex. This waxy resin produces a balsamlike, woody, earthy, marshy, smoky, ambergrislike, leathery, flowery, honeylike, mintlike fragrance with hints of plum or oakmoss after a rain. The Japanese use Labdanum in their Neriko mixtures, which are used during tea ceremony. Egyptians used it in their Kyphi mixtures and the Hebrews burned it in their temples. Today the perfume industry uses labdanum to add a note of moss and leather to its products. Labdanum is an excellent medium for making fragrant incense pellets.
Galbanum Gum - 4g	Galbanum has long been valued for it's wonderfully complex green, spicy, woody, balsamlike fragrance. The Egyptians imported Galbanum resin in vast amounts, it was among their most treasured incense ingredients. Galbanum, also called "Mother resin", is discharged from the roots and lower trunk of this small wild plant. It originally grew in the Mesopatamia area and was exported to India, China, Israel and Egypt. Today Iran is the primary, if not solitary, source of all Galbanum. Galbanum was often used to relieve tensions due to anxiety and severe restlessness and to relieve muscle spasms. It was often used during childbirth.
Opoponax pieces - 25g	Opoponax, also know as "sweet myrrh" and "bisabol myrrh", has a sweet, balsam-like, lavender-like fragrance when used as incense. King Solomon regarded opoponax as one of the "noblest" of all gums. Various cultures used opoponax to guard against negative influences, strengthen the senses, and to increase awareness and intuition.
Sandarac granules - 5g	From Morocco. Sandarac, also known as avar tree, has a wonderful warm, light, fruity, balsamic, frankincense-like fragrance. Sandarac is still used today to make liquor. In Morocco it is steeped in folk medicine and is used as a remedy if childbirth becomes difficult. It has a calming effect and reduces cramps. In Arabian countries sandarac is still burned to treat colds. People also take the resin internally to treat roundworms and tapeworms. During the days of Jesus, sandarac was known as "gold" and is considered by some to be the gold gift to the baby Jesus. Sandarac's warm balsamic fragrance works well in the evenings. It relaxes, calms and eases tension. It is helpful in cases of insomnia caused by tension or stress. Sandarac is cleansing, strengthening and clarifying.
Storax - 4g Storax Bark 2gm	Storax produces a warm, balsamlike, sweet, flowery, intense, feminine and slightly grassy fragrance. It adds a sweet sensual note to any incense mixture. Storax is made by boiling the bark of the tree, pressing it to remove the water, then using alcohol extraction to produce the pure resin. The resin is then soaked back into the charcoaled bark. The bark is also available.
Breuzinho pieces Amazon rainforest resin - 12g
Honey Amber pieces - 5g	Ancient Greeks and Egyptians considered amber to be an important healing remedy against mental illness, fever, stomach problems, throat infections, rheumatism and much more. The Greeks called amber the "sun stone" and believed it connected them to the sun god, creating an atmosphere of renewal and alertness. In ancient Greece, amber was called "electron", the root of the word "electricity." When rubbed this resin becomes electrostatic.
Gum Mastic granules - 4g	Imported directly from Chios, Greece - No. 1 grade pearls. Gum Mastic is a transparent, lemon-white coloured, tear-shaped natural resin from the mastic tree, which grows on the southern part of the island of Chios, Greece and nowhere else in the world. Egypt imported this popular incense from Chios. It was a key ingredient in their ancient "Kyphi" recipes. Mastic creates a light, balsam like, fresh, lemony, gentle fragrance. It is cleansing, clarifying and mentally refreshing. In ancient Egypt, mastic was also called "the fragrance that pleases the gods." People in North Africa use mastic for incense burning as a tonic for exhaustion. Mastic works well for meditation and reflection, its bright radiant energy is helpful when you need clarity. It's also used as a natural and hygienic chewing gum; excellent for teeth cleaning and as a medicine for stomachache, stomach ulcer, diabetes, cholesterol, etc. The mastic tree is an evergreen bush that grows up to 20 ft (6m) high. The tree lives about a hundred years and is fully grown after about 40-50 years. It starts giving its resin (mastic) when it is 5-6 years old. After about 15 years, it produces from 60 to 400 grams of mastic per year. Since ancient times, mastic has been used as a natural medicine. A leaf fossil from a mastic tree has been found dating back six million years. Mastic oil and other sub products are produced from mastic and are used widely in medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, dentistry, and industry in general. A recent research of the University of Athens / Department of Pharmacy proved that Mastic and Mastic oil have remarkable antibacterial and fungicidal properties. In the USA and Japan they produce medicine from mastic to treat stomach ulcers and help relieve stomach aches. Traditionally mastic is taken as a medicine to drop the sugar levels of the blood (diabetes) and to improve cholesterol.
Forest Blend granules - 15g
Nile Temple Blend granules - 10g
Celtic Blend granules - 20g
Moroccan Rose granules - 10g
Three Crowns blend (AKA Three Kings) - 20g
Queen of Heaven - 10g
Makko Powder - 20g NB $11.00 Please note that due to short supply the price has increased from March 1st, 2009.	From Asia, the bark of this tree is ground up and added to incense mixtures as a natural binder for making incense cones and sticks. Makko is also used instead of charcoal to burn incense ingredients. It does not affect the pure natural scents of the other ingredients. Makko Base powder - cultivated mainly in Southeast Asia; from Kyushu to China, Taiwan, and Thailand the trees grow.