Fw: HERB - Two Questions

[Elizabeth Zagula]

Oops, I forget to add that I did check in both Gerard's and Parkinson's and
neither list Benn, Benjamin, Liquidamber Orientalis in any of the indexes. 
I haven't checked Culpeper yet.

Elizabeth

There is a fine line between anal and efficient, I straddle it!

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> From: Elizabeth Zagula <ezagula at srv.net>
> To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: HERB - Two Questions
> Date: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:59 PM
> 
> Magdalena wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, does anyone know what oil of Benn is mundanely called, and where I
> should
> > look to get some?
> > 
> 
> 
> I have seen this referred to as Oil of Benjamin which the glossary in the
> back of Hugh Plat's "Delights for Ladies" list it as Beniamin as says it
is
> Frankincense.  It is also listed in the glossary of Gervase Markham's
"The
> English Housewife" as benjamin, a resin from the tree Liquidamber
> orientalis.  I have also read that it is actually benzoin or storax, a
gum
> resin.  Anybody else have more insight??
> 
> I am going to use Oil of Frankincense as a substitute for Oil of Benjamin
> for some of the works being competed.  Does anyone have a better
> suggestion??
> 
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