Sangre de Grado Extract, 1 oz.

Sangre de grado has a long history of traditional uses in South America. The resin is extracted from the Croton lechleri tree that is popularly known as dragon's blood. The resin has been independently documented as possessing antimicrobial and wound healing properties.*

Sangre de Grado is rich in naturally occurring active and beneficial phytochemicals. Raintree's supply of Sangre de grado comes from the high jungles of Peru where new organic cultivation programs with medicinal plants are replacing old coca plantations and providing new sources of income for poor farmers on their existing lands.

Main Actions: Vulnerary, antifungal, antiseptic, antiviral, antihemorrhagic.

Main Uses: To stop bleeding, seal, and heal wounds, burns, cuts, tooth extractions. Herpes virus ulcers (taken internally and applied topically). Skin fungi, rashes, and atopic dermatitis. Insect bites, poison ivy and other itchy or allergic skin reactions. Stomach ulcers, ulcerative colitis, dysentery and diarrhea. Properties/Actions Documented by Research: Anesthetic, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antidysenteric, antifungal, antihemorrhagic, antileukemic, antioxidant, antiseptic, antitumorous, antiviral, neurasthenic, vulnerary.

Other Properties/Actions Documented by Traditional Use: Analgesic, anticancerous, anti-itch, antiulcerous, astringent, depurative.

More Detailed Information on Sangre de Grado: South American tree sap is a pain killer, anti-inflammatory and antibiotic.

Ingredients: A pure natural resin mixed with 10% alcohol to stablize and preserve the active ingredients.

Sold in amber glass bottles with glass eye-dropper tops. This product can be taken internally or used topically. If taken internally, the resin should be diluted in a small amount of juice or water. Applied topically, it forms a sort of skin-like covering that protects wounds while healing. When it comes out of the bottle, the liquid is very dark in color, but it becomes transparent when lightly touched to the skin and spread.

Cautions: The red resin stains clothes/fabric permanently.