Source, chemical composition, potential nutraceutical, and therapeutical applications of Dragon’s Blood are discussed here. Among the top-recurring keywords appear: unclassified drug, nonhuman, plant extract/s, Dragon’s Blood, dracaena, Dragon Blood, chemistry, human, animal/s, plant resin. The literature search was carried out by means of the Scopus database 365 documents have been retrieved in the year range from 1854 to 2021, and a total of 269 terms were identified. A literature quantitative research analysis approach was applied as starting point. ![]() This perspective aims at providing a current framework on Dragon’s Blood with focus on antioxidant properties for nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals in a novelty integrated and multidisciplinary manner, highlighting the current knowledge, the main research lines, and emerging strategies. It has been extensively used by indigenous cultures of the Amazon River since ancient times due to the beneficial nutraceutical and pharmaceutical properties. Dragon’s Blood is a reddish resin oil extracted from Croton lechleri tree. A great attention is being addressed over the years toward herbs and medicinal plants. Plants are the source of a large spectrum of phytochemicals, and the combined and concerted action of biologically active compounds lead to the potential beneficial properties of each plant matrix.
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