A specific powder that consists mainly of the natural gum tragacanth: One type of diatragacanth is the cold diatragacanth, put together with the gums tragacanth and arabic, liquorice, white poppy seed, starch, and cold seeds, like those of the cucumber. The powder of the hot variety is comprised of gum tragacanth, hyssop, almonds, linseed, cinnamon, fenugreek, ginger, and liquorice.