A Sticky Subject

I get a lot of questions about using herbs, both medicinally and magically. (Surprise?) A lot of beginners want to know which herbs they ought to start out with. I did a post on Top Ten Herbs but one of those, Myrrh, and a few similar herbs need some more attention. I'm not talking about flowers, leaves, bark or roots; today I'll focus on resins.

For the most part 'resin' and 'gum' can be and are used interchangeably, so 'Benzoin Gum' is the same thing as 'Benzoin Resin'. Resin is exuded from ...