galbanum

[ gal-buh-nuhm ]

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noun

a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.

galbanum

/ ˈɡælbənəm /

a bitter aromatic gum resin extracted from any of several Asian umbelliferous plants of the genus Ferula, esp F. galbaniflua, and used in incense and medicinally as a counterirritant

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin; akin to Greek chalbánē, Hebrew chelbenāh

C14: from Latin, from Greek khalbanē, from Hebrew helbenāh

Discutients possess the power of repelling or resolving tumors, such as galbanum, &c.

What I advise is this: Give them a good deal of 'Galbanum' in the first part of your letter.

This is the point for the application of the galbanum or other "warm plaster."

A suffumigation of sandarach1100 with galbanum, or goats fat, will drive away Scorpions and every other reptile.

Galbanum killeth serpents only by touching, if oyle and the herbe called Fenell-giant be mixt withall.

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