James Green
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 Gum-resins (Gummi-resinae)
Gum-resins are milky exudates composed of (1) a gum or gums partly or wholly soluble in water and (2) a resin or resins soluble in alcohol. When triturated and admixed with water, gum-resins yield emulsions, the gum constituent more or less dissolving while the resin is mechanically suspended in the solution. Examples: Myrrh, Asafoetida.
Mucilages
Mucilages (like gums) are expressly soluble in water (they are best extracted in cold water) and insoluble in alcohol. Extraction of mucilaginous constituents must be done with as low an alcohol content as possible. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 The term myrrh refers to aromatic resins, of which the most famous are true myrrh (Commiphora myrrha), an Afro-Arabian tree, the bark of which exudes an aromatic resin and the eastern Mediterranean myrrh shrub (Cistus creticus), with an aromatic resin obtained by boiling the branches in water and skimming off the resin. The latter is believed to be the "myrrh" referred to in the Bible (in Genesis). Origin & history The plant is indigenous to Europe. It has a long history of use as pot-herb and for strewing on medieval church floors. Roots were once eaten as a vegetable. |
Mark Sircus
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 Chlorella traps toxic metals in the GI tract and acts as an ion exchange resin.
Chlorella is a species of unicellular fresh water algae that has been shown to possess detoxifying properties enabling it to assist or support the human detoxification system. Chlorella algae contain phytochemicals that support detoxification while the cell walls function as an ion exchange resin to absorb and retain toxic metals which can then be excreted. Chlorella is a food-like all purpose mild detoxifier (not chelator) of heavy metals. |
Marshall Editions
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 The active constituent in guggul is a resin, which is secreted by the plant when injured. Because resins are insoluble in water, an alcohol extract must be used. Take 20 drops of tincture three times a day.
Lemon balm: If an underactive thyroid is caused by the immune system creating autoantibodies against the thyroid (e.g., Hashimoto's thyroiditis), lemon balm can be used to decrease the destruction and inflammation of the thyroid. Lemon balm is a slightly warming, sweet-tasting herb that also acts as a mild anti-depressant, a common side-effect of hypothyroidism. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Plastics made from polycarbonate resin can leach bisphenol-A (BPA), a potent hormone disruptor. BPA, a chemical found in epoxy resin and polycarbonate plastics, may impair the reproductive organs and have adverse effects on tumors, breast tissue development, and prostate development by reducing sperm count.
BPA can leach into water bottles through normal wear and tear and exposure to heat and cleaning agents. This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But they won't eat aloe vera because the leaf and resin are too tough and bitter. If you slice open an aloe vera leaf, however and place that on the ground, the desert animals will gladly eat the gel! (I know because I've tried this experiment. Rabbits love the gel!)
So when it comes to aloe vera, what you want is the gel, not the leaf or the resin. "Whole Leaf" aloe vera products are sort of a marketing gimmick. Eating whole leaf aloe would be like eating whole-plant corn: The stalk, the husk, the cob... everything! |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Part of the answer is that a resin is not a sap; both serve different functions. Sugar-rich saps carry the internal nutrient flow of trees and are, in fact, highly soluble in water. That is why maple syrup doesn't glue our pancakes together. In conttast, precisely by reason of their incompatibility with normal living functions, true plant resins (as opposed to saps) are not for internal consumption at all. They are produced and then excreted onto the plant's outside surface. |
| Turpentine, for example, is the natural solvent that pine trees produce to enable the flow of resin out to the bark's surface. In the air, the turpentine solvent evaporates, and the resin efficiently hardens. rubber cement
Some plants have come up with an entirely different way of taking poorly soluble polymers and "packaging" them for export. This mechanism also has crirical implications for glue making, because it provides an important clue for a possible way to engineer an alternative to toxic chemical solvents. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's true: The sap or resin (also called latex) of aloe vera is a dark brown liquid that was traditionally used by American Indians to treat severe constipation. That's why people who take "whole leaf" aloe vera supplements have such a terrible time with the pills.
The primary healing part of aloe vera is the gel, and only the gel. A quality product needs to separate the gel from the rest of the leaf, then prepare the gel into a supplement or liquid. This process is obviously labor intensive. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Constituents
Ascorbic acid, panothenic acid, vitamin K, flavonoids (anthocyanins), calcium, potassium, silica, malic acid, maizenic acid, alkaloid (hordenine), cryp-toxanthin, mucilage, saponins, sterols (sitosterol, stigmasterol), allantoin, resin, tannin
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: sweet
• Temperature: cool
• Moisture: moist
• Polarity: yin
• Planet: Sun/Mercury/Venus/Saturn/Pluto
• Element: earth
Contraindications
Generally considered very safe.
Range and Appearance
Corn is an annual cereal grass native to South and Central America. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The natural ingredients in the leaf resin appear to the inhibit replication of the virus.43 Preparations are available in either cap-Sample Treatment Plan for Genital Herpes See the Resources section for formulation sources.
During an Acute Episode
• Apply ice, preferably during the prodrome stage during symptoms of itching, numbness, or tingling or even after the eruption has appeared, for 10-minute applications several times during the day. This limits the discomfort and swelling and can keep an outbreak from fully erupting.
• Apply lemon balm ointment several times per day. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Suppressors of cancer cell proliferation from fig (ficus carica) resin: isolation and structure elucidation. J Nat Prod. 64:993-996, 2001.
Slavin IL. Dietary fiber and body weight. Nutrition. 2005;21:411-418.
Streppel MT, et al. Dietary fiber and blood pressure. Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165:150-156.
Upton J. New roles for fiber focus on heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure. Environmental Nutrition. 2005;28(4):1,6.
Flax www.fIaxcouncil.ca; www.flaxrd.com
Bloedon LT, Szapary PO. Flaxseed and cardiovascular risk. Nutr Rev. 2004;62:18-27.
Chen J, Hui E, Thompson L. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| One or two capsules daily of the leaf resin may reduce the frequency of outbreaks, and the topical lotion, when applied at the first sign of a tingling sensation, may prevent the outbreak from occurring.
Botanicals such as thuja {Thuja occidentalis), lomatium {Lomatium disectum), and astragalus {Astragalus spp.) have been traditionally used by naturopathic physicians, herbalists, and other health-care practitioners to support the body's immune system and to defend against the effects of disease-causing viral infections. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Essential oils are responsible for the aroma, while the so-called soft resins are responsible for the bitter taste. The resin also has preservative effects (no longer important with modern processing). Shoots with male flowers {jets de houblon) are popular in Belgian cooking and are prepared in the same way as asparagus.
Nutritional value Hops is used for flavour only but the bitter compounds in the beer stimulate appetite and gastric secretions, thereby improving digestion. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| BPA, a chemical found in epoxy resin and polycarbonate plastics, may impair the reproductive organs and have adverse effects on tumors, breast tissue development, and prostate development by reducing sperm count.
BPA can leach into water bottles through normal wear and tear and exposure to heat and cleaning agents. This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So when it comes to aloe vera, what you want is the gel, not the leaf or the resin. "Whole Leaf" aloe vera products are sort of a marketing gimmick. Eating whole leaf aloe would be like eating whole-plant corn: The stalk, the husk, the cob... everything! But you don't want the whole corn plant, you only want the corn kernels, right? With aloe vera, you only want the inner gel.
How to get this low-temperature dried aloe vera gel
Right now, the only company I know of that's offering this product is Good Cause Wellness (www.GoodCauseWellness. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Could resin be made inherently sticky, thereby eliminating the need for plasticizers? Maybe we could check in with the peacocks; they've already figured out how to create brilliant colors by refracting light through a matrix of keratin, the same substance human fingernails are made of. "Why are we still talking about chemicals and paint? Why don't you just design thin layers that play with light?" asked Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild. The super-thin photosensitive polymer Amy Cannon developed for hair perms may also be applicable to hair color with a coating of food-grade dye. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Modern cultivars, partly based on North
American cluster hops, have been selected for their high yields of soft resin, together with resistance against fungal diseases.
Parts used The dried, cone-like female flower clusters.
Cultivation & harvesting Female plants are grown on long poles and can be harvested mechanically or by hand. Uses & properties Hops contributes its aroma and bitterness to beer. Essential oils are responsible for the aroma, while the so-called soft resins are responsible for the bitter taste. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It can't be done by machine because if you simply squeeze the leaf, you'll get both gel and resin out of it. To get just the gel, you actually have to hire a team of aloe vera gel fillet workers to slice each leaf and carefully remove the gel. This is exactly how the aloe vera gel is processed in the Good Cause Wellness product. I know because I had a long conversation with the manufacturer of the aloe vera flakes, and I've seen pictures of their operation: It's a large aloe vera leaf fillet factory!
Unlike the gel, the skin and sap of the aloe vera leaf are not food. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Other Uses
The fragrant resin is used in the manufacture of perfume, soap, and potpourri. The sap can be used as an adhesive glue. The roots are used to make baskets and string. The wood ashes are mixed with oil to make a soap; the white inner bark is also used to make soap. The fluffy seed coverings can be used to stuff pillows. The shoots of the plant can be soaked in water to make a hormonal rooting solution that will encourage other plant cuttings to root. The wood warps easily if exposed to water but is used to make crates and boxes. A yellow dye is made from the leaf buds. |
| Constituents
Calcium, chromium, manganese, potassium, silicon, sulfur, unsaturated fatty acids, alkaloids (berberine, hydrastine, canadine, berberastine, canadaline, hydra-stinine), flavonoids, resin, albumin, starch, chloro-genic acid
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: bitter
• Temperature: cold
• Moisture: dry
• Polarity: yin
• Planet: Sun/Saturn
• Element: earth
Contraindications
Avoid during pregnancy, in cases of high blood pressure, or in the week preceding surgery, as it may increase blood pressure. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Aroma Sun SPF 8 Hydrating Self-Tanning Milk, for Face & Body, above, but it also contains volatile fragrant oils to irritate skin and a pepper resin that makes matter worse, especially if applied around the eyes.
© Aromessence Repairing After-Sun Balm, for Body ($47for 1.69 ounces) is an oil- and wax-based balm that contains some excellent ingredients for dry, parched, weather-beaten skin. But it also contains several irritating fragrant oils, including skin-damaging lavender oil.
© Aromessence Repairing After-Sun Balm, for Face ($37for 0. |
Stacy Malkan
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| He studied the mussels' adhesive substance and replicated it with a protein-based resin made from soy flour. The result: non-toxic, water-soluble, cost-effective glue that works perfectly for making plywood kitchen cabinets. "Back to nature" is taking on a whole new meaning in today's material economy. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 According to natural-foods expert Rebecca Wood, mangoes —along with poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac—all contain urushinol, a toxic resin that can cause contact dermatitis. The peel and the juice seem to be the problem rather than the flesh. It's possible —though not common—that eating mangos to excess could cause itching or skin eruptions. On a good note, the Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put mangoes on its 2003 list of twelve foods least contaminated with pesticides. Nice to know! |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Cashew nuts in the shell are not available in stores since the interior of their shells contains a caustic resin known as cashew balm. This resin, which is toxic, must be removed before they are fit for consumption. Cashew balm is used in varnishes and insecticides.
HISTORY
The cashew tree is native to the coastal areas of northeastern Brazil. The earliest written reports of cashew are from Brazil, coming from French, Portuguese, and Dutch observers. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 There are several theories, including one that says it is the remains of bacterial and/or fungal degradation of plants that are rich in resin and latex. Another theory suggests that it is created by mosses and liverworts that break down soil and rocks. Whatever the actual source, different locations produce shilajit with varying chemical compositions.
The material from the Himalayas is considered vastly superior to the material gathered in Russia or China. Modern research (mostly performed with animals) has confirmed many of the traditional uses of this substance. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The sealant was a mixture of rubber, natural resin, and benzene. Coated caps dried on open racks, evaporating off the benzene.
This was the first medical report in the United States of benzene-caused, toxic aplastic anemia, a disease wherein the bone marrow fails to produce enough of any of the critical blood cells needed by the body. Two separate benzene incidents had already been documented in foreign reports that appeared within weeks of each other in 1897.11 One was a very similar cluster of poisonings in a bicycle tire factory in Uppsala, Sweden. |
| In the air, the turpentine solvent evaporates, and the resin efficiently hardens. rubber cement
Some plants have come up with an entirely different way of taking poorly soluble polymers and "packaging" them for export. This mechanism also has crirical implications for glue making, because it provides an important clue for a possible way to engineer an alternative to toxic chemical solvents. By suspending otherwise insoluble polymers as microscopic droplets, certain specialized plants can turn them into water-based solutions. |
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