Benzoin
Botanical Name: Styrax benzoin
Common Names and Synonyms: Gum Benjamin, Gum Benzoin
Background: The benzoin tree is native to the tropical areas
of the Far East. The resin or gum from the benzoin tree is used as
an aromatic in perfumes. Medicinally, benzoin is used as an antiseptic
treatment for dry, cracked skin and as an expectorant for respiratory conditions
such as severe bronchitis. A tincture made from benzoin added to a vaporizor
has been prescribed for croup. The resin, also called gum benjamin,
ranges in color from pale yellow to red brown and is harvested by making
incisions into the tree's bark to establish a flow, which then hardens
into lumps.
Benzoin in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended benzoin for a wide variety of applications, most
often as an ingredient in massage oil formulas and inhalant formulas.
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Benzoin was typically recommended with other substances in a compound.
Although a wide diversity of formulas were given, the most common
substances mentioned in the same readings with benzoin were as follows:
| Turp (Turpentine) |
214 readings |
| Tolu |
184 readings |
| Eucalyptus |
148 readings |
| Olive Oil |
124 readings |
| Creosote |
102 readings |
| Camphor |
96 readings |
| Mutton Tallow |
81 readings |
| Sassafras |
73 readings |
| Myrrh |
54 readings |
| Cedar Wood Oil |
54 readngs |
| Canadian Balsam |
53 readings |
Cayce Quotes on Benzoin
849-35
The absorption of the Benzoin into the muscular
forces BY the thorough massage will be a material aid to stimulating the
superficial circulatory forces, and thus enabling the body to gain better
control of the muscular forces where there has been the inclination for
an atrophy or the lack of the vital superficial circulation in the muscular
and tendon forces of the lower extremities, especially. This would
be massaged, of course, all over the cerebrospinal system, but more particularly
through the lumbar and the sacral and the muscular forces of the sciatic
nerves and tendons or ends in the hip and the tendon under the knee, and
about the
805-5
To 4 ounces of Pure grain Alcohol, add - IN THE
ORDER NAMED:
Oil of Eucalyptus....................20 minims,
Compound Tincture of Benzoin.........30 minims,
Rectified Oil of Turp.................5 minims,
Tolu in Solution.....................15 minims.
Shake the solution well and inhale the fumes (removing
both corks) into the nasal passages, first one side then the other; also
into the throat. Do this morning and evening, or when there is the
least tendency for irritation in the throat or nasal passages. This
is an antiseptic or a nature that will reduce the irritation produced by
congestion, cold, or ANY irritation existent there as indicated in the
present.
538-69
We find that material benefit may be had from the
use of stupes made with heavy salt, heated and then sprinkled with Compound
Tincture of Benzoin. This is not only good as an inhalant for the
body, under the conditions, but this applied to the side of the head and
over the eye area will be of material benefit in aiding to clear
up the conditions with and in the eye. Do not have it too hot, but
sufficiently warm that when the compound Tincture of Benzoin is sprinkled
on same it will cause quick evaporation. Do not hold it too lose,
- don't get it too hot on the face, but the fumes of same close to the
face will be most helpful.
303-34
(Q) How may I clear up the wheezing in my right lung?
(A) This naturally comes from weakness and the general debilitation.
A few drops of Compound Tincture of Benzoin will relieve the wheezing -
this taken internally.
3542-1
At any period when there are severe spasmodic reactions,
it will be helpful to have the burning of certain fumes in the room - as
in a croup cup or boiling water. To a pint of boiling water, put
half an ounce of Compound Tincture of Benzoin. Just breathe the air
or the fumes from this - it will be helpful.
658-13
In removing the condition, then, we would use an
inhalant for the muco-membranes in head, throat, in the antrums and soft
tissue of the face, made in this manner:
To 4 ounces of grain alcohol, add:
Eucalyptus, Oil of.,..................20 minims,
Rectified Creosote.....................5 minims,
Tincture of Benzoin...................15 minims,
Oil of Turp............................5 minims,
Canadian Balsam........................5 minims,
Tolu in solution......................30 minims.
Keep this solution in a container twice the size
of the quantity, or an eight ounce glass corked container. Only shake
solution together when this is to be inhaled; then inhale deep into the
nostrils (that is, from the bottle itself), either side, and into the throat.
This solution is only an antiseptic, so far as cleansing powers are concerned,
but is very penetrating in its effect and will clear the head. So
much, now, for the CAUSES; for these inhalations, as given, are for effects,
see?
487-15
To 1 ounce of pure olive oil (heated, not to boiling
but heated) add, while the olive oil is still warm, and stir into same
in THIS manner this quantity, and in the order as given:
Tincture of Benzoin..................1/2 ounce,
Tincture of Myrrh....................1/4 ounce,
Russian White Oil....................1/2 ounce,
Witchhazel...........................1/4 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras..................2 to 3 minims.
Use this night and morning to massage over the right
side covering, the caecum area, and also over all portions of the pelvis
bone, see? over the upper part to the lower portion of the sacral
area; the caecum, the pelvis bone, to the lower portion of sacral area,
on the right side.
1144-1
First, we would begin, then, with the FUME BATHS;
that is, heating the body in the cabinet - but DO NOT raise the temperature
in same too high above the BODILY temperature, or not above a hundred and
one (101). And with the heat add the fumes from equal portions of
Compound Tincture of Benzoin and witchhazel; preferably heat these and
let the fumes rise upon the body during the period of the bath. This done
once a week should be sufficient.
1800-26
(Q) First: T-I-M, a remedy for hemorrhoids, a jar of which
T. B. House holds in his hand. Does this product carry enough Tincture
of Benzoin to act as an effective astringent in reducing the surplus skin
or sac left by the hemorrhoid after it has been assimilated in the system?
(A) In this particular jar here, not sufficient; though it will
act as an astringent. But a small quantity added to same would make
it more effective, though in some types more irritating.
1208-9
As we find in the present, we would keep the inhalations
or the room or air ladened with the fumes; but these we would change somewhat
from those being used. Prepare same in this manner:
Tincture of Benzoin (NOT the Compound).....1 ounce,
Oil of Eucalyptus........................1/2 ounce,
Oil of Turp..............................1/4 ounce.
Put these together. Use a teaspoonful of the
mixture in the croup cup, or in the boiling water, so that the fumes are
inhaled.
1553-6
Have a GENERAL massage using an equal combination
of Olive Oil AND Compound Tincture of Benzoin, over those portions of the
limb and along the spine. This will not only aid in quieting the
body but the absorption of these properties will stimulate the better circulatory
forces, with the suggestive forces as to the activity of the flow of circulation
in the system - and thus quieting the nerves, stimulating the ganglia.
And especially make this stimulation, through the massage, in the areas
of the upper dorsal and across the lumbar and sacral, as well as the limbs
- or those centers from which impulses for nerve and blood supply are received
for circulatory forces to the limbs.
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