What are the medicinal values ​​of agarwood?

Kynam agarwood is a kind of fine spice, and Kynam is also a relatively precious spice plant. Kynam agarwood has a wide range of medicinal value. It can not only be made into fine handicrafts, but also can treat some physical diseases, improve the body's immune ability, improve heart disease, and have health benefits for the human body and the heart.

Main Value

1. Pharmaceuticals

Kynam is the best natural antibacterial medicinal material. It can promote and improve the internal organs and circulation function of the human body. It mainly regulates qi, relieves pain, opens the orifices, enhances immunity, and is especially good for heart function. The well-known <Jiusin> is a heart disease medicine containing Kynam.

2. Fragrance Appreciation

The fragrance of agarwood is elegant and noble, and can only be felt by personal experience. In ancient times, it was an indoor game for Japanese royal aristocrats, and entertaining guests with tea, flowers and incense was considered the most respectful etiquette.

3. Spices

Since the Han Dynasty, the royal family has offered sacrifices to heaven, prayed for blessings, worshipped Buddha, worshipped gods, and burned incense indoors, with agarwood as the most important incense material.

Identification

Generally speaking, the greater the density of agarwood, the more oil it condenses and the better its quality. The best agarwood among all kinds of agarwood cannot be appreciated by traditional methods. The formation of agarwood is ingenious. It is a hollow agarwood tree (dense agarwood tree species) in which ants or wild bees build nests. Formic acid, nectar or rock honey of wild bees, and bee paddles are absorbed by the living scent glands of the agarwood tree and combined with a special fungus to gradually produce it.

This process continues to accumulate and causes the agarwood tree to break from the root or a branch, commonly known as "fallen frame", and be buried in the soil. Its parasitic fungi and resin continue to absorb and synthesize it, and it lasts for hundreds or even thousands of years until it is dug out by agarwood farmers. Therefore, agarwood is extremely precious and rare.

What is currently being talked about as "black agarwood" is actually old agarwood from the Hui'an system. It is a new term coined in the industry. In fact, its quality does not reach the level of agarwood, and it is a type of inferior product that is sold as good quality. It needs to be carefully identified.

Types and characteristics

If diamonds are the most precious among gold, silver and other treasures, then agarwood is the most precious of all treasures and the diamond among all spices. Agarwood (also known as Gannan) is divided into black, red, yellow, blue, white and green. Currently, only Erlangba agarwood is the most widely grown. The differences in appearance may be due to the different production areas and land structures in different places.

Characteristics of the finest agarwood: People generally divide agarwood into white agarwood, green agarwood (some are also called green agarwood), yellow agarwood and black agarwood based on color. The common characteristics of agarwood can be understood from the following aspects.

The hardness is low, the texture of agarwood is relatively soft, and generally the hardness is not high. Cutting agarwood with a knife feels similar to cutting meat skin, and the blade has a noticeable flexibility. Other types of agarwood are harder and do not have this kind of flexibility.

The oiliness is good, and the agarwood has a strong oily feel, which is especially obvious on the newly cut surface. After the high-quality agarwood is cut with a knife, the oil on the cross section can be pulled into thin filaments like candied yam. If you observe carefully, you will find shiny oil on the cross section of the fracture.

The scent is rich and natural, and the fragrance of agarwood can be smelled even without being ignited. Large pieces of old agarwood are like a rich mine of fragrance, which feels inexhaustible and inexhaustible. If the fragrance becomes a little lighter, put it in a plastic bag for a while, and the fragrance will still be strong after you take it out.