Also known as Guaiacum Wood (Guaiacum officinale), Lignum Vitae is an incredibly slow growing tree, varying in height from 15 to 50 feet. The trunk is usually crooked, with crowded, knobby, short-jointed, flexuose, spreading branches, about 4 feet in diameter; the bark is furrowed, spotted, and greyish.
It grows naturally in the West Indies, especially Jamaica, St. Thomas and St. Domingo but is often grown as an ornamental in California and some adjacent states of the USA.
The wood and resin, or solidified juice, are the parts used in medicine, though the whole tree possesses medicinal virtues. The bark is said to be the most active part of it, but it is seldom met with in commerce. The wood of this tree is used medicinally and is, indeed, mentioned in Benvenutto Cellini’s memoirs as such.
The essential oil from the wood is often used in the perfumery industry.
Guaiacum Wood, also known as Lignum Vitae Wood is sometimes, incorrectly, referred to as Palo Santo which is, in fact, a name given to a number of species of tree and means simply Holy Wood
It has bark which is hard, flat, a few lines thick, of a greenish-black colour, with yellowish and greyish spots and is very acrid. The wood and bark, used for medicinal purposes, consists of turnings from the workshop of the turner, and is a uniform mixture of the alburnum and duramen, but that used in medicine should really only consist only of the latter. The alburnum or sap-wood is of a yellow colour, that of the duramen or heartwood, greenish-brown. Lignum vitae is only odorous when burned or rasped.
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Apr 26, 2022
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