Pekar incense
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:54 am
I discovered Pekar as an incense. I didnt buy it yet, but the lady in he shop told me that name. I know the usage of Gogul, but what is Pekar used for?
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སྤོས་དཀར་pemachophel wrote:Po-kar, not pur-kar or pe-kar, i.e., white (kar) incense (po). Sorry, I don't know how to make an umlaut over the o in po.
Yudron wrote:སྤོས་དཀར་pemachophel wrote:Po-kar, not pur-kar or pe-kar, i.e., white (kar) incense (po). Sorry, I don't know how to make an umlaut over the o in po.
I need some within the next six weeks or so. I just emailed Potala gate about it, but I don't see it on their current web site. Does anyone know if another place that sells it?
Jim Valby and Ives Waldo's dictionary entries say it is camphor.
It doesn't look like camphor. It looks like natural copal or frankincense or mastic or pine resin.Yudron wrote:སྤོས་དཀར་pemachophel wrote:Po-kar, not pur-kar or pe-kar, i.e., white (kar) incense (po). Sorry, I don't know how to make an umlaut over the o in po.
I need some within the next six weeks or so. I just emailed Potala gate about it, but I don't see it on their current web site. Does anyone know if another place that sells it?
Jim Valby and Ives Waldo's dictionary entries say it is camphor.
here is it on potalagate, seems like it's in stock:Yudron wrote:སྤོས་དཀར་pemachophel wrote:Po-kar, not pur-kar or pe-kar, i.e., white (kar) incense (po). Sorry, I don't know how to make an umlaut over the o in po.
I need some within the next six weeks or so. I just emailed Potala gate about it, but I don't see it on their current web site. Does anyone know if another place that sells it?
Jim Valby and Ives Waldo's dictionary entries say it is camphor.
Same here, but the sticks are reallygregkavarnos wrote:I'm a big fan of pure resins, herbs, etc... and mixing up my own incese.
Thank you everyone. I may have some questions about other substances, too.gregkavarnos wrote:Sure. I am about to experiment with using Asphodelus microcarpus Sare roots as non toxic-binding agent. In "olden times" the ground up roots were used by book binders to glue the spine. Seeing how they are also edible (and odourless) I surmise that they would be an excellent binding agent for making Tibetan style incense sticks.
Here on Lesbos it grows wild and is considered a weed in olive orchards.
Yudron wrote:I just learned from a Tibetan medicine doctor that po kar སྤོས་དཀར་ is Boswellia Serrata, a medicine used in Ayurveda. This is really good news, because I happen to have some around the house! Similar to, but not, frankincense.
Thank you everyone. I may have some questions about other substances, too.gregkavarnos wrote:Sure. I am about to experiment with using Asphodelus microcarpus Sare roots as non toxic-binding agent. In "olden times" the ground up roots were used by book binders to glue the spine. Seeing how they are also edible (and odourless) I surmise that they would be an excellent binding agent for making Tibetan style incense sticks.
Here on Lesbos it grows wild and is considered a weed in olive orchards.
The Hindus I know seem to have some wonderful smelling resins, but guggol is the only one I've used.
I have, however experimented with various essential oils as an incense alternative.
In Ayurvedic medicine Indian frankincense (Boswellia serrata), commonly referred to as "dhoop," has been used for hundreds of years for treating arthritis, healing wounds, strengthening the female hormone system, and purifying the air. The use of frankincense in Ayurveda is called "dhoopan". In Indian culture, it is suggested that burning frankincense daily in the house brings good health.[16]
I know, I have read that too, but I have it on good authority that what we generally call incense is a closely related variety of Boswellia, not the Serrata.Adamantine wrote:Yudron wrote:I just learned from a Tibetan medicine doctor that po kar སྤོས་དཀར་ is Boswellia Serrata, a medicine used in Ayurveda. This is really good news, because I happen to have some around the house! Similar to, but not, frankincense.
Thank you everyone. I may have some questions about other substances, too.gregkavarnos wrote:Sure. I am about to experiment with using Asphodelus microcarpus Sare roots as non toxic-binding agent. In "olden times" the ground up roots were used by book binders to glue the spine. Seeing how they are also edible (and odourless) I surmise that they would be an excellent binding agent for making Tibetan style incense sticks.
Here on Lesbos it grows wild and is considered a weed in olive orchards.
The Hindus I know seem to have some wonderful smelling resins, but guggol is the only one I've used.
I have, however experimented with various essential oils as an incense alternative.
wiki on frankencense:In Ayurvedic medicine Indian frankincense (Boswellia serrata), commonly referred to as "dhoop," has been used for hundreds of years for treating arthritis, healing wounds, strengthening the female hormone system, and purifying the air. The use of frankincense in Ayurveda is called "dhoopan". In Indian culture, it is suggested that burning frankincense daily in the house brings good health.[16]