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***Gum Tragacanth/Chinese Traditional Herbal ***
 
 
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Tragacanth Gum is a natural gum that is produced by several different species of the Astragalus genus. Astragalus plants often go by the names goat’s thorn or locoweed. The species used to make tragacanth gum include A. adscendens, A. gummifer, A. brachycalyx, and A. tragacantha. These are all legume bearing shrubs from the Middle East. Tragacanth gum is made from the dried sap of these plants. You can find this substance also under the name Gond Katira, Kutira Gummi, Katheera, Katila, Ela-imbue-Kini Hi Riya, Shiraz gum, Shiraz, gum elect, and/or gum dragon. The most common name—tragacanth—has Greek origins. In Greek, tragos means goat and akantha means thorn.
Iran is the largest producer of tragacanth gum in the world. The gum is extracted from the Astragalus plant’s roots through tapping, just as you do to produce maple syrup. The syrup that is produced from the plant dries quickly to become tragacanth gum. It is odorless, tasteless, and water soluble. It can be made into a powder, gel, or paste.
In addition to the medicinal uses described below, tragacanth gum has a variety of uses. In fact, you can find it as an emulsifier, thickener, stabilizer, and texturizer. It is traditionally used to bind pastel paint and is used in sugar craft paste to create flowers and other sugar decorations. It is also used to secure the flag leaf of the cigar to its body. In food products, tragacanth gum can be found in drinks, sauces, salad dressings, ice cream, the list goes on. Finally, people in Saudi Arabia use a mixture of Tragacanth, water, and dried and ground Ziziphus spina-christi (Christ’s thorn jujube) as a shampoo.
 
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