True dragon's blood comes from the fruit of rattan palms of the genus Daemonorops, native to Southeast Asia, where the scarlet coating is shaken or rubbed from the ripening fruit and pressed into cakes or tears. In Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs it is described as a powerful protectant when carried, sprinkled around the house, or smouldered as incense, driving away negativity and lending extra potency to any blend it joins.

Dragon's blood is a natural red resin from Daemonorops draco and related rattan palms, with related resins historically drawn from Dracaena species such as Dracaena cinnabari of Socotra. Its colour comes from flavylium pigments, chiefly dracorhodin and dracorubin, carried in a matrix of resin acids and benzoic and benzoylacetic esters. It has served as a varnish, violin stain, dye, and incense since antiquity, and is known in Traditional Chinese Medicine as Xue Jie.

Medieval traders claimed the resin was the dried blood of dragons slain in battle with elephants, which gave it both its name and its fierce reputation., Scott Cunningham records the old practice of women burning dragon's blood at an open window at night to call a wandering lover home., and Folk magic holds that powdered dragon's blood mixed with sugar and salt, sealed in a bottle and hidden, brings peace and quiet to a noisy house.

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