Gum-SANDARACH, is a dry and hard resin, usually met with in loose granules, of the bigness of a pea, a horse-bean, or larger; of a pale whitish yellow colour, transparent, and of a resinous smell, brittle, very inflammable, of an acrid and aromatic taste, and diffusing a very pleasant smell when burning. It is produced from
underman, a species of the juniper; (see JUNIPERUS.) It flows only from these trees in hot countries: but the natives promote its discharge by making incisions in the bark.
Sandarach is esteemed good in diarrhoeas and in hemorrhages.
The varnish-makers make a kind of varnish of it, by dissolving it in oil of turpentine or linseed, or in spirit of wine.
Pounded SANDARACH. See POUNCE.