What is the medicinal value of agarwood?

Speaking of agarwood, many people may not have heard of it. For ordinary people, they usually don’t come into contact with agarwood in their daily lives. However, those who are interested in health preservation should know about agarwood. The so-called agarwood is actually a herbaceous plant. Not only that, it actually has a very important role in pharmacology. So, what is the medicinal value of agarwood? Let’s take a look together below.

Chinese medicine doctors use agarwood to formulate prescriptions to treat diseases. Agarwood is effective in strengthening the heart and nerves. The well-known medicine "Jiuxin" contains agarwood. Agarwood can help with sleep, beautify the skin, relieve bloating, expel stool, and remove grease, and it has a good effect of boosting yang. Agarwood is mainly used to treat: vomiting and hiccups, heart and abdominal pain, stagnation of qi in the large intestine, coldness in the waist and knees, chest and diaphragm congestion, asthma, etc. It is used to treat diseases of digestion, respiratory, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, rheumatism, tumors, as well as surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, men's health, ENT, skin and other departments. It is also used in aromatherapy and incense burning. Agarwood is widely used, especially for digestive system diseases, and most medicines use agarwood. At present, there are more than 160 Chinese patent medicines formulated with agarwood.

Chinese agarwood has extremely high medicinal value and is a precious traditional Chinese medicine with a long history of use in my country. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Agarwood has a pungent smell, is slightly warm, and is non-toxic. It is mainly used to treat wind and water poisonous swelling, and remove bad air; it can treat heart and stomach pain, cholera, evil spirits and malarial air, and clear the mind; it can regulate the middle, nourish the five internal organs, replenish essence and strengthen yang, warm the waist and knees, stop cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, cold air, break syndromes, cold wind paralysis, joint stiffness, rheumatic skin itching, and dysentery; it can nourish the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and harmonize the mind. It can treat qi reversal and rapid wheezing, large intestine deficiency and closure, urinary incontinence, and cold male semen."

Folk application of agarwood:

① Laxative and detoxification;

② Helps with sleep and clears the mind;

③ Reduce blood sugar and blood lipids;

④ Replenish Qi and improve essence. Modern clinical trial studies have shown that agarwood is a specific medicine for gastric cancer and a good analgesic. Since ancient times, agarwood has usually been processed into traditional Chinese medicinal pieces, such as agarwood powder, agarwood pieces, agarwood songs, etc.

To sum up, we can clearly observe that agarwood has many medicinal values. For example, for people who often vomit, agarwood can play a regulating role. Not only that, agarwood also has a very good effect in improving sleep quality for people. Finally, agarwood can also help us women who love beauty to achieve very good beauty and skin care effects.