He based his sermon from the Gospel of St. John, which mentions Nicodemus bringing "a mixture of myrrh and aloes" to embalm and preserve the physical body of Christ. According to the Bible nutrition educator, this was an embalming mixture of resins made up of myrrh and aloes.
It is worth noting that Nicodemus, one of the secret followers of Christ, was involved in an earlier exchange with Jesus – which the gospel writer also mentions. Myrrh is also mentioned in the Bible as one of the three gifts offered by the Magi alongside gold and frankincense (Matthew 2:11).
Aside from being used as a spice, myrrh was used as an ingredient of the anointing oil used in the Tabernacle. It is also used as a perfume, leading to its association with wealth and beauty. Myrrh has also been used as a salve for the purification of the dead, just like how Nicodemus used it to preserve Christ's body.
Winifred Walker, in her 1962 book "All the Plants of the Bible," explained that myrrh in the Old Testament came from rockrose – a small plant that grew among the sand and rocks. The gum collected from the rockrose was then pressed into cakes and used as a perfume. Meanwhile, the New Testament myrrh came in the form of a soft and dark resin collected from a small tree and sold in golden pieces called "tears" or "pearls."
The Health Ranger continued that myrrh extract serves as a salve, stimulant or expectorant. It can also be used as a fixative or fragrance in creams, detergents, lotions, perfumes and soaps. Myrrh gum makes a good mucilage, while the insoluble residue from the myrrh tincture can be used as a glue.
Myrrh oil can be used as an astringent in mouthwashes and gargles as it addresses spongy gums, ulcerated throats and mouth sores. It it also helpful in treating bronchial inflammations and vaginal infections. Myrrh oil can be used topically, i.e. applied on the skin. (Related: Myrrh oil is worth more than gold when it comes to the health benefits it provides.)
Myrrh is used as medicine worldwide
According to Dr. James Duke's book "Herbs of the Bible," myrrh was deemed "a panacea for almost every human affliction from earaches to hemorrhoids" in Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman realms. On the other side of the world, Asians used myrrh as an astringent tonic taken internally and a cleansing agent applied externally. The Chinese apply myrrh to relieve spasms and to stimulate digestive fluids.
The Bible nutrition educator also noted the various uses of myrrh in Africa. Women in Egypt carry myrrh pearls in their handbags as perfume. Algerians, meanwhile, dress open wounds with myrrh resin, owing to its antibacterial properties.
Myrrh is made into a healing beverage in East Africa, with Tanzanians making tea from the myrrh bark to treat diarrhea and stomachache. Ugandans pound the unripe myrrh seeds and add water to make a warming drink.
West Africans use myrrh as an insecticide to repel termites, while different countries in Africa's western portion use myrrh in many other ways. Meanwhile, Ghanaians fumigate their clothing with the fragrant smoke of the burning myrrh wood. A decoction brewed from the myrrh bark is used to cure male infertility in the Ivory Coast, while the same decoction is used to treat insanity and tapeworms in Nigeria.
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