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
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
