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Elemi

Elemi (Canarium luzonicum) is a tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
native to the Philippine Islands, and an oleo-resin

Resin

Resin is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly Pinophyta. It is valued for its chemical constituents and uses, such as varnishes and adhesives, as an important source of raw materials for organic synthesis, or for incense and perfume....
harvested from it.

i resin is a pale yellow substance, of honey

Honey

Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
-like consistency. Aromatic elemi oil is steam distilled from the resin. It is a fragrant resin with a sharp pine and lemon-like scent. One of the resin components is called amyrin.

Elemi is chiefly used commercially in varnishes and lacquers, and certain printing inks.

Elemi is used as a herbal medicine to treat bronchitis

Bronchitis

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the large bronchus in the lungs. It can progress to pneumonia. Acute bronchitis is usually caused by viruses or bacteria and may last several days or weeks....
, catarrh

Catarrh

Catarrh is a thick exudate of mucus and Granulocyte caused by the swelling of the mucous membranes in the head in response to an infection. It is a symptom usually associated with the common cold and chesty coughs, but can also be found in patients with infections of the adenoids, otitis media, sinusitis or tonsilitis....
, extreme cough

Cough

A cough , in medicine, is a sudden and often repetitively occurring defense reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from excess secretions, irritants, foreign particles and microbes....
ing, mature skin, scars, stress, and wounds.

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Elemi (Canarium luzonicum) is a tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
native to the Philippine Islands, and an oleo-resin

Resin

Uses

Elemi resin is a pale yellow substance, of honey

Honey

Bronchitis

Catarrh

Cough

Phellandrene

Phellandrene is the name for a pair of organic compounds that have a similar molecular structure and similar chemical properties. a-Phellandrene and ?-phellandrene are cyclic terpene and are double bond isomers....
, dipentene, elemol, elemicin

Elemicin

Elemicin - a natural organic compound that is a constituent of the essential oil of nutmeg. It is believed to be partially responsible for the subtle psychoactive effects of nutmeg....
, terpineol

Terpineol

Terpineol is a naturally occurring monoterpene alcohol that has been isolated from a variety of sources such as cajuput oil, pine oil, and petitgrain oil....
, carvone

Carvone

Carvone is a member of a family of chemicals called terpene. Carvone is found naturally in many essential oils, but is most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill....
, and terpinolene.

History of the name

The word elemi has been used at various times to denote different resins. In the 17th and 18th centuries the term usually denoted a resin from trees of the genus Icica in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, and before that it meant the resin derived from Boswellia frereana

Boswellia frereana

Boswellia frereana only grows in northern Somalia where the locals call it "Maydi", the king of all frankincense. In the West it is called "Coptic Frankincense" as this is the type and grade used by the Coptic Church of Egypt....
. The word, like the older term animi appears to have been derived from enhaemon (e?a?µ??): the name of a styptic medicine said by Pliny

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
to contain tears exuded by the olive tree of Arabia.

"The name Elemi is derived from an Arabic phrase meaning 'above and below', an abbreviation of 'As above, so below' and this tells us something about its action on the emotional and spiritual planes." (Davis, 108)