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A gum-resin, supposed to be obtained from the Ferula Persica. Ord. Umbelliferae. Sex. Syst. Pentandria Digynia. Its odour is fetid and alliaceous; taste pungent, bitterish, nauseous. It is in small, agglutinated masses of a yellow colour; tenacious; breaking with a horny fracture. It is a reputed antispasmodic and emmenagogue.

Fetid gum-resin much like galbanum.

A concrete gum resin of uncertain botanical origin, ascribed by many authors to Ferula persica or Ferula szowitziana. It resembles asafetida and galbanum. [Gr.]