Friday, February 18, 2022

Indian or Yellow Incense

As already mentioned, the incense-sticks are everywhere prepared according to fairly consistent and usually very old regulations. Our present incense-sticks consist mainly of the same ingredients as the fumigants of the ancients. Many years ago they were called Oiselets de Chypre and in the old pharmaceutical. Works is a mixture of the then known rubber resins.

 Indian or yellow incense
  • Powdered Sandalwood 1 Kilogram
  • Powdered benzoin resin 1 1/2 kilogram
  • Tolu balsam 1/4 kilogram
  • Santalwood oil 24 grams
  • Takes cassie oil 24 grams
  • Grams of clove oil 24 grams
  • Nitrate of Potash (saltpetre) 100 grams


These substances are kneaded with a sufficient amount of gum tragacanth to a stiff mass