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Eric. This is what I bought on ebay. The wording on the bottle says 100% Sangro de Grado---- herb America(tm) Murphy.
Ed
FYI....
The value of the wording satisfies the legal labeling but is cleverly misleading.
All commercially distributed Sangre de Grado is processed. There is no way to collect the pure resin and be able to offer the product at the low online prices the trees just don't yield enough free flowing resin. The traditional method of collecting the resin is the same a how rubber trees are tapped, make cuts in the bark and collect the drops of "blood" as the tree "bleeds". This pure resin is the final unprocessed natural product that has been in use by local people for.....(for ever?).
The modern commercial collectors have devised a method to have more product from a tree. But the method is destructive and eliminates the trees future production. Fortunately the species grows a replacement fast, so the method is sustainable (but still destructive).
The commercial process is to cut the entire tree into little pieces, put wood, limbs and leaves into a pot of water and boil it down until the consistency is like the natural sap. This way they can get 50 gallons of processed resin from a tree, one time, as opposed to 1/2 liter per year. Very destructive process that leads to the older collectors returning to their heritage trees to find that someone has cut them down.
Why does the process matter for use on plants? Because the heat of boiling alters the natural product. And most of the commercial supplies have alcohol added to stabilize the solution. The alcohol is needed to keep the boiled (dead) liquid from spoiling.
The natural pure unheated resin contains living microbes and goes through a natural fermentation process and creates it's own alcohol that stabilizes the resin.... much the same as yogurt. The natural pure Dragon's Blood may very well contain lactic bacteria which would now classify it as a natural Probiotic.
Whatever part of the Dragon's Blood that works on the leaf problems is drastically reduced (or eliminated) in the commercial process. The commercial product still has a positive effect but much less so than the pure natural liquid.
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