Talk:Dragon's blood

POV

"The use of it, however, in a Native American ceremony is an obvious indicator that the ceremony is NOT an authentic Native American ritual and is most likely from a fraudulent source, as the plants were not available in North America until it was brought from Europe it was obviously never used in "traditional" or ancient Native American ceremonies."

- While it may be true, this statement is written in a very POV fashion. Needs severely reworded. Shador5529 15:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

- Without expertise in the subject matter I would like to confirm whether the reference is to Scodra(Lake Skadar) or Socotra(island)... much closer to Greece / Roman empire kind of a weird location as referenced... I think its the official roman imperial dye see "SPQR" flag... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riddnic (talk • contribs) 22:58, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Misguided Ancients?

"Due to the belief that it is the blood of the mythical animal, the dragon, it was also used in alchemy and for ritual magic." I have read many of the primary medieval sources that mention this substance, and not one has asserted that it is really the blood of a dragon. It doesn't even vaguely resemble blood unless you melt it, whereupon it becomes bright red and blood-like. It doubtless was used in alchemy and ritual magic, but those uses are not separate from its use as incense which I have added to the list of uses. Since that claim is unsourced and seemingly contradicted by personal experience, I have removed it to this page. 209.30.170.226 13:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate entries for Dragon's blood

With no criticism intended, I just wanted to point out that there is another entry covering details that may not be on this entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_blood With the new editorial policies in place I would only call your attention to this. Cheers! LaoziSailor (talk) 20:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)LaoziSailor

Hi there, and thanks for the comment. The two different articles discuss two different topics. This one Dragon's blood discusses a pigment produced by a plant and used by Stradivarius, among others. The other one Dragon blood talks about legendary/fictional mentions of the blood of legendary/fictional Dragons. That one is potentially very interesting but at the moment has no references supporting any of its statements. It would be great if somebody wanted to bring that article up to Wikipedia standards. Sharktopus ^talk 21:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, one of the things that you have to understand is that I don't know about present protocols, I am as a matter of fact a "newbie", having said that, I do have personal experiences with Croton Lechlieri. I was born in Indonesia and grew up in Peru, sufficiently exposed to the natural things available in the Amazon and the myths associated, and for that matter in the Ecuatorial belt, the plant exists. The fact ultimatemately is that they did use Croton Lechierli on the Stradivarius, I play classical guitar and use Benzoin Tinstuctre to make my strings a bit stickier, ...almost in the same context. LaoziSailor (talk) 21:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)LaoziSailor

Safety section

1) "A study on oral toxicity of the DC resin methanol extract " - how this can be of any value (in determining the resin's toxicity) when methanol itself is a potent poison??

2)The style of the article could be improved: The article seems to suggest that basically any red colored resins (and also the red mercury salts) were called dragonsblood by europeans, with no regard to what it's source was, just based on the color characteristic - why not say it explicitly then. Also resins typically have some anti-fungal, and/or antibacterial effect, so no need to talk about the traditional medicinal uses like it was completely baseless superstition. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 14:03, 28 January 2019 (UTC).

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