Use in bush medicine.
Occasionally a bloodwood tree will shed a piece of bark,
hence opening a "wound" through which a blood-like kino will
flow. The sap flows until it crystallises, covering up the hole in the bark.
Australian Aboriginals collect this substance as bush
medicine. They apply the sticky gum directly to sores or cuts and it works
as an antiseptic. If the sap is in a dried form, it can be crushed into powder
and boiled in water to use as an antiseptic wash.[6]
Another use of the bloodwood sap by Aboriginal people is
to tan "kangaroo-skin waterbags".[1]
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