A reddish brown substance with a strong, persistent odour secreted by a gland of the male musk deer, esp. Moschus moschiferus, and highly prized in…

= sagapenum, n.

? = serapine, n.

A gum resin, the solidified juice of Ferula persica, formerly used as an antispasmodic and emmenagogue, or externally. Also gum sagapenum.

The drug asafetida.

= cassumunar, n.

The tuberous root of an East Indian plant (apparently Curcuma aromatica Salisb., C. Zedoaria Roxb.); it is warm, bitter and aromatic, smells like…

= sagapenum, n.; also the plant producing sagapenum.

the aromatic oil obtained from these trees, used in medicine as a stimulant, antispasmodic, and sudorific.

Any of several plants with musk-scented roots, or the roots themselves: (a) the root of the sumbul, Ferula sumbul, used in medicine; †(b) the…

General use as a modifier, as in sumbul balsam, sumbul oil, sumbul root, etc.