opobalsam

Up through the thorn-bushes and opobalsam trees he comes, scrabbling on boulders, this is a fit man, no softbellied usurer he.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Jewish borough called Engaddi which furnished opobalsam.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Christian Era balsam was obtained from Judea (opobalsam) and from

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

While I stood inhaling the scents of opobalsam, and cinnamon and myrrh, and wine of palm and oil of cedar, and all the other spices of the Pharaohs, mingled in one strange aromatic cloud, my personality seemed again to become, in part, the reflex of ancestral experiences.

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

Products from the opobalsam bush, grown in the Dead Sea area, were exported, including the sap, twigs and bark, which were used as medical remedies for headaches and problems with eye-sight.

Insurgent American 2009

Our knowledge of At the fi nal stage, the prescribed quantities of these writings of Mithridates (Watson, 1966) has 55 herbs, previously prepared by various pro - come down to us in the writings of Pliny and cesses, along with the prescribed quantity of squill Galen, as the translation by Lenaeus has been lost. and viper fl esh powder (48 drachms), were added Pliny writes: to hedychium, long pepper and poppy juice (all at 24 drachms); 8 herbs including cinnamon and By his unaided efforts Mithridates devised the plan of opobalsam (all at 12 drachms); 18 herbs including drinking poison daily after fi rst taking remedies in myrrh, black and white pepper, and turpentine order to achieve immunity by sheer habituation.

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B.J. 2.591; Vita 74-76), dates, opobalsam and spices.

Insurgent American 2009