PISTACIA LENTISCUS, ORD. Il. Amentacee: 29 
It is a common practice with the Turkish women to chew. this 
resin, especially in the morning, not only to render their breath 
more agreeable, but to whiten the teeth, and strehgthen the gums;‘ 
they also mix it with their fragrant waters, and burn it with other 
odoriferous substances in the way of fumigation. 
As a medicine, Mastich is considered to be a mild corroborant 
and astringent; and as possessing a balsamic power, it has been re- 
commended in hemoptysis, proceeding from ulceration, fluor albus, 
debility of the stomach, and in diarrhoeas and internal ulcers.‘ 
Chewing this drug has likewise been said to have been of use in 
pains of the teeth and gums, and in some catarrhal complaints; it is 
now however seldom used either externally or internally. 
The Lentisci lignum, or wood of this tree, is received into the 
Materia Medica of some of the Foreign Pharmacopezias, and is ‘na! 
extolled in dyspeptic, gouty, hiemierhagic, and dysenteric affections, 
. © Lib. cit, 
= Degner (de dysenteria. p. 201.) gave it successfully in these complaints, in 
doses of ten grains to a scruple, both in substance and in the way of emulsion. 
® See Ephem. Nat. Cur. Dec. 3. A. 9. 10. Obs. 135. where it is dignified with 
the title of vegetable aurum potabile. 
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CHIAN or CYPRUS 
PISTACIA TEREBINTHUS, 
) TURPENTINE TREE, 
Ex qua fluit Terebinthina chia, Pharm. Lond. 
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SYNONYMA. Terebinthus vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. p. 400. 
Tournef. Inst. p. 579. Terebinthus. Clus. Hist. p. 15. Dod. 
Pempt. p. 871. Gerard. Emac. p. 1433. Rati Hist. p, 1577 
Terebinthus angustiore folio vulgatior. Park. Theat. p. 1526. 
Ic. Du Hamel Arbres, t. 2. tab. 87. 
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