I'm not sure where Skiing got their information. But Dragon's Blood is actually a mixture of herbs akin to those first used as red pigment. Its just a nickname. There's no such thing as a dragon tree. As an incense its used for cleansing and adding potency to spells. I've never worked with it as an oil. But I'd assume it has similar properties.
you obviously don't, skiing.
i know of every resin ever made and dragon's blood is not one of them.
i hate to say it, but the only way to get real dragon's blood is from a real dragon. dragonfies also have a small bit of dragon's blood in them but it wouldn't be enough to make anything with.
i'm sry, but you have wasted your money. the ¨dragon's blood¨ you have isn't real.
Ramurtha is correct in that it is not real dragon's blood, but CrystalWolf probably knows that. Manteia is incorrect, however, and skiing may be right, because there IS such a thing as a "dragon tree": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_%28plant%29
Hello;
I googled this and Wikipedia came out with;
Dragon's blood is a bright red resin that is obtained from different species of a number of distinct plant genera: Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops, Calamus rotang and Pterocarpus. The red resin was used in ancient times as varnish, medicine, incense, and dye. It continues to be employed for the aforementioned purposes by some.
In American Hoodoo, African-American folk magic, and New Orleans voodoo, it is used in mojo hands for money-drawing or love-drawing, and is used as incense to cleanse a space of negative entities or influences. It is also added to red ink to make "Dragon's Blood Ink", which is used to inscribe magical seals and talismans.
In neopagan Witchcraft, it is used to increase the potency of spells for protection, love, banishing and sexuality. In New Age shamanism it is used in ceremonies in a similar way as the neopagans use it.
At a website on wand information, as I researched wand cores, I wiccan stated that she used dragon's blood resin in a powdered form and stuffed in her wand's core to be used as a condenser.
So, after buying a 9/16 in. wide and 16 in. long drill-bit at Home Depot, I drilled my new hazel wand stick branch which took an excruciatingly long and cautious time to drill straight. I then bought a 12 in. long copper tube from the A/C dept at Home Depot, stopped the end with mud, stuffed it with amber powder from Norway then, stuffed some of the wand with dragon's blood resin powder mixed with(the following all ground to a powder): Juniper berries, grains of paradise, dill weed, master of the woods, sampson root, masterwort, mugwort, ginger root, cinnamon and, devil shoestring then, the copper tube then some more of the powder mix then capped with a clear quartz crystal and glued on with guerilla super glue (looks better than wiring the crystal in place). That was what I did for my wand's condenser core. I did more to the wand in carving it though.
Just thought I'd let you know another use for the Dragon's Blood. Blessed Be.
Ooops forgot to state;
I bought some elmer's wood putty and stuffed it between the wand and the crystal as there was some small spaces inbetween. After the wood putty dried, I sanded it smooth then I wood stained it to look uniform.
The name Dragon's Blood is enough to make any pagan curious to use it. Dragon's have been a symbolic symbol in magick for ages. Dragon's Blood however, doesn't really have any thing to do with dragons. It is the resin that comes from the tree Dracaena Draco (a few other trees produce similar resins) which is mostly found in Africa, Asia and Central America. .
The word Dragon's Blood comes from the bright red resin that is secreted when the bark or branches are cut. In Ancient times it looked so similar to blood that people really did think it was dried blood of a dragon. The only way to tell the age of the tree is to count the number of branch forking occurrences and by measuring how often the tree flowers. It does not have rings like other trees and some trees are believed to be at least 700 years old.
The Draceana Draco species have a very unique shape. The trees have a large base and towards the middle section the branches are pulled together giving an almost hourglass look. This process is called a secondary thickening. From the upper middle part of the tree the branches spread out again and continue growing until it has a large umbrella like top.
In stores today you might not be buying authentic Dragon's Blood. There are actually 3 other plant genres which have trees that produce a similar resin and they don't all have the same healing and magickal properties as the resin that comes from Draceana Draco. For instance, true Dragon's Blood is a coagulant (helps stop bleeding) and the other resins that look similar are actually anti-coagulants.
Dragon's Blood ink is thought to be very powerful. The resin is made into a red ink and is used to write spells, charms, draw runes, talismans and inscribe magickal seals. This is the perfect ink to use to write a protection spell on a book, like a book of shadows, or in fire spells that require you to write something down (wish, prayer) and then burn it.
Since it has a bright red color the resin makes a beautiful dye. In china they use Dragon's Blood to dye the paper used for banners and signs made for weddings and the Chinese New Year. You can die the pages of your Book of Shadows to add extra protection to your book. You can also do this with journals. The other properties Dragon's Blood processes are protection (for anything) and banishing negative energies. It can also be used in love and sex magick. Adding a bit of Dragon's Blood to any spell is said to make it more potent.
The healing properties of Dragon's Blood makes it very useful. Externally it can help stop bleeding and heal wounds. Internally it is used for chest pains, to stop bleeding from childbirth and to help with menstrual problems.
If you have pets or children then don't do this but if not then you can sprinkle Dragon's Blood under rugs, carpets, in doorways, on windowsills, basements and anywhere in your house to increase protection from negative people or intruders. Dragon's Blood can be purchased at any herb/occult shop or online.
