Other favorite spices include curry leaves, black mustard seeds, mango powder, saffron and a slightly sulfuric-smelling gum resin called asafetida which resembles onion in flavor.
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Exports of 13 types of commodities, such as cashmere, gum resin, ginseng, honey and carpets, now are restricted by quotas intended to give the government some control over prices.
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The oleo gum resins of a number of other " Commiphora " species are also used as perfumes, medicines ( such as aromatic wound dressings ), and incense ingredients.
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About 71 percent of Perhutani's export earnings came from the sales of finished teak and other timber, and the remaining 71 percent from nonwood forest products such as gum resin and turpentine.
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For instance, in the expression "'Opopanax'is hard to spell ", what is referred to is the word itself ( " opopanax " ) and not what it means ( an obscure gum resin ).
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Most species in " Garcinia " are known for their gum resin, brownish-yellow from xanthonoids such as mangostin, and used as purgative or cathartic, but most frequently at least in former times as a pigment.
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The hardened sap, or gum resin, excreted from the wounds of the sweetgum, for example, the American sweetgum ( " Liquidambar styraciflua " ), can be chewed on like chewing gum and has been long used for this purpose in the Southern United States.
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These aforesaid specified details are once again followed by a generalization, " SPICES . " This would mean that the " spices " in question can only be those which have similar qualities to those named in the specified details; such as which are true of gum resins ( e . g.
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The hard transparent resins, such as the copals, dammars, mastic, and sandarac, are principally used for varnishes and adhesives, while the softer odoriferous oleo-resins ( frankincense, elemi, turpentine, copaiba ), and gum resins containing essential oils ( ammoniacum, asafoetida, gamboge, myrrh, and scammony ) are more used for therapeutic purposes and incense.
