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SANGRE DE DRAGO

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Botanical name:

Croton lechleri (also C. palanostigma / C. benthamianus in some lists). Not Dracaena.

Alternative names:

Sangre de grado, sangre de grada, dragon’s blood (Amazonian sap)

Main indications:

  • fresh sap on cuts, scrapes, insect bites, and mouth sores
  • traditional internal drops for diarrhea and gut inflammation
  • folk talk of tuberculosis and tumors — traditional, not a protocol
  • colds and joint discomfort, in folk use

Crofelemer (a purified sap fraction) is an approved antidiarrheal drug in some countries. The raw sap is not that drug.

Short characteristics:

Sangre de drago is the red sap of Croton lechleri, a western Amazonian tree that is scored so the latex can run. Image search will show you Dracaena, a different “dragon’s blood.” In Peru the same sap is sangre de grado — a local name, not a misspelling.

Folk use is mostly topical: a dark film on wounds, bites, and mouth sores. People also take drops internally as a traditional gut tonic. Traditional talk has named tuberculosis and tumors. That talk can be reported. It is not a TB or cancer protocol. Namjoyan used C. lechleri powder (Maya Ethnobotanicals, 15% cream) on 60 skin-tag wounds — that paper is this species. Jones 2003 is the older sap review.

The live essay listed harmine and harmaline. Those do not belong in this sap. Drop them. This site sells nothing.

The usual way of use:

External: undiluted sap on wounds, burns, bites, and mouth ulcers. Mouth rinse: 3–10 drops in a quarter glass of water.

Oral folk use: a few drops in a spoon of water, built slowly. This site sells nothing. Crofelemer (Mytesi) is a prescription fraction, not a bottle of raw sap.

WARNING: Raw sap is not a TB or cancer medicine. Internal use can upset the gut. Pregnancy: do not self-dose. Do not confuse this latex with Dracaena resin.

Composition

The sap is a mix of proanthocyanidins (the SP-303 / crofelemer story), the alkaloid taspine, and other phenolics. Taspine has a wound-healing paper trail (Vaisberg 1989). It does not contain harmine, harman, or harmaline — those were a copy-paste error. Ubillas 1994 isolated the oligomeric proanthocyanidin later developed as crofelemer.

Traditional use

Amazonian topical sap for bleeding cuts and sores; internal drops for diarrhea and gut inflammation. Traditional TB and tumor talk exists and can be named as folk use. It is not a clinic protocol. Related formulas are not required to contain this sap.

Precautions

Internal sap is not crofelemer. Crofelemer’s label (DailyMed Mytesi) and LiverTox crofelemer monograph are about a purified drug. Pregnancy unknown for raw sap. This site sells nothing.

Opened studies

  • Jones (2003). Review of Sangre de Drago (Croton lechleri) — traditional uses to clinical research. Sap review: diarrhea, wounds, bites. PMID 14736360.

  • Namjoyan et al. (2016). Efficacy of dragon’s blood cream on wound healing: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Croton lechleri powder cream, 60 skin-tag wounds. Opened full text. PMC4737969.

  • Ubillas et al. (1994). SP-303, an antiviral oligomeric proanthocyanidin from the latex of Croton lechleri. Chemistry that led toward crofelemer. PMID not in the opened plan; not invented.

  • Vaisberg et al. (1989). Taspine is the cicatrizant principle in Sangre de Grado extracted from Croton lechleri. Taspine wound paper. PMID not in the opened plan; not invented.

  • LiverTox (2019). Crofelemer. Drug monograph, not raw sap. NBK548325.

  • DailyMed (—). Mytesi (crofelemer) prescribing information. Approved antidiarrheal fraction; not a bottle of latex. DailyMed Mytesi.