CARPOBALSAM, in the Materia Medica, the fruit of the tree which yields the true oriental balsam. The carpo-balsam is used in Egypt, according to Prosper Alpinus, in all the intentions in which the balsam itself is applied: but the only use the Europeans make of it is in Venice treacle and mithridate: and in these not a great deal, for cubeb and juniper-berries are generally substituted in its place.