What is the medicinal value of agarwood?

Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that "musk deer weighs heavily on Tan Long", which makes us think that this agarwood is just a spice and forget its medicinal value. In fact, agarwood was originally regarded as an excellent formula for treating diseases. This evidence can be seen from China's ancient medical books: We will look for the value of agarwood from ancient books one by one.

Textual research on names

Aquilaria sinensis (not recorded), honey fragrance (southern vegetation) and submerged fragrance (Gui Zhiheng).

Subject source

Daphne plants

Medicinal part

Wood containing black resin of Aquilaria sinensis or Aquilaria sinensis.

Sexual taste orientation

Bitter, bitter, warm. Enter spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.

Efficacy indication

Activating qi to relieve pain, lowering adverse qi, warming kidney and receiving qi. Indications: chest distress, abdominal distension and pain caused by cold coagulation and qi stagnation; Stomach cold, vomiting and hiccups; Deficiency and cold in the lower yuan, deficiency and asthma in which the kidney does not accept qi.

dosage

After grinding, take1~1.5g.

Avoid medication

Use with caution those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.

job operation

Brush clean, chop into small pieces, and mash or grind into fine powder when using.

Allocation of resources

Location: Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Taiwan Province provinces.

Medicinal material identification

① Imported agarwood is a kind of resin-containing wood of plant agarwood, mostly helmet-shaped, rod-shaped or flaky, with extremely irregular shape, 7-20 cm long and1.5-6 cm in diameter. The surface is brown, often with black and yellow texture, smooth and flat. Solid, heavy, not easy to break, split with a knife, the section is grayish brown. It can be submersible or semi-submersible and semi-floating. It has a special fragrance and bitterness. When burning, there is oil oozing out and the aroma is rich. ② Domestic agarwood is also called Hainan agarwood. Aquilaria sinensis contains resinous wood, mostly in irregular blocks or sheets, with a length of 3 ~ 15 cm and a diameter of 3 ~ 6 cm. The surface is uneven, and the organic processing tool marks. It can be seen that dark brown resin-containing parts and yellow wood parts appear alternately, forming stripes. The surface of holes and dents is rotten wood. Lighter in weight, the damaged surface is prickly and brown. Most of them can't sink. It has a special fragrance and bitterness. There is oil leakage, smoke and strong aroma when burning.

Aquilaria is oily, heavy and wax. After careful processing, it is carnation.

Textual research of ancient books

① explanation of the medicinal properties of Leigong processed products: Aquilaria sinensis belongs to yang but is heavy in nature, which contributes more to the lower part and makes the kidney enter.

However, if the fragrance is too dry, it will hurt the blood, so it is suitable for those who want to be cold.

If the water is dirty and weak, the fire will flourish, and if it is misused, the water will dry up and the fire will be fierce, and it never rains but it pours.

At present, many people think that Taiping medicine is harmless to people and needs to be used to transform qi, but it does not harm people.

② "Drug Meaning": Aquilaria Resinatum, which rises in pure yang, is heavy in nature, weak in taste and strong in qi, and has the function of treating carbuncle on chest and back limbs and itchy skin.

And incense can warm and nourish viscera, maintain harmony and defend qi.

If cold and dampness stagnate in the lower part, it can be used as a supplement to relax meridians and drive away evil spirits; If it is a fall, you can use this as an auxiliary blood-enriching drug to disperse blood stasis and relieve pain; If all kinds of symptoms are weird, it can be assisted by attacking phlegm, which can reduce qi and soothe the nerves.

In short, dredge the channels and collaterals, the blood moves with the qi, and the phlegm moves with the qi. Anything that hurts and itches will be cured.

3 "New Edition of Materia Medica": agarwood, warming kidney and helping heart. Using coptis chinensis and cinnamon to pass through the kidney will save trouble without agarwood.

However, it is better to use it on heart-to-heart kidney, and it costs a sum of money. Without grinding, slicing is the end. It can also be taken in tonifying the heart and kidney.

chemical composition

The acetone extract of Aquilaria sinensis (40-50%) was saponified and distilled to obtain volatile oil (13%), which contained benzyl acetone and p-methoxybenzyl acetone, and the residue contained 3-phenylpropionic acid and p-methoxy3-phenylpropionic acid. The agarwood infected by mold contains agarworlol, linalool, dihydroagarwood furan, 4- hydroxydihydroagarwood furan, 3,4-dihydroxyagarwood furan and noragarwood furanone; Uninfected sulfur, celery, linalool, etc.

Related selection

① Treatment of chest and diaphragm congestion, abdominal distension, shortness of breath, dysphoria and beriberi: Rhizoma Cyperi (parched and depilated) 420, Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum 18.2, Fructus Amomi 4820 and Radix Glycyrrhizae 1220.

The top is good at the end.

Every time you charge, add a little salt, take the soup and eat it on an empty stomach.

("Fang Ju" Sean Jiang Qi Pill) ② Treatment of kidney-qi failure due to yin deficiency: Grind several parts of Aquilaria Resinatum juice, and use two yuan for Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, San Qian, Poria, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Corni Fructus, and one yuan for Cortex Moutan, Alismatis Rhizoma and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae.

Decoct with water and take with agarwood juice.

(Materia Medica) ③ Treatment of chronic deficiency of spleen and kidney, stagnant water and drink, upper lung meridian, short cough, abdominal distension and dysuria: 1 yuan of Aquilaria Resinatum, 2 liang of San Qian, 2 liang of Poria, 2 liang of Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, 2 liang of Alismatis Rhizoma, 2 liang of Cyperus Rhizoma, and half liang of musk.

The top is fine powder, refined honey, and the pill is as big as five cents.

Take 20 or 30 capsules each time and cook under water.

("Jifeng Puji Formula" Sean Pill) 4 Treat seven emotions, take a breath, and prevent boredom. Food: Ginseng, Areca catechu, Aquilaria Resinatum and Tiantai Linderae, put them in coarse grinding, mix them with water for seven minutes, fry them for three or five times, and take them warmly.

Or it is better to raise Zheng Dan.

("Fang Jisheng" Simo Decoction) ⑤ Treatment of phlegm-heat chest obstruction, excessive phlegm-fire and blood deficiency: Pinellia ternata Qubaliang (made of a small cup of ginger juice and a large cup of bamboo juice), Coptis chinensis Liangliang (fried with ginger juice), woody and agarwood Liangliang.

For the fine powder, licorice soup is pan-pill.

Hollow ginger soup is two yuan.

(Sean Huatan Pill by Zhang Shiyitong) ⑥ Treatment of vomiting due to cold and excess: one or two pieces of Aquilaria Resinatum (filed), half piece of green tangerine peel, half piece of dried tangerine peel (blanched in water and baked), half piece of pepper, half piece of coriander (fried), half piece of neem (filed and fried) and half piece of litsea cubeba (fried).

Seven flavors on the table, coarse screening.

Take two Bi Yuan at a time, half a glass of water and half a glass of wine, and stir-fry the scallion until half a cup, so that I can take it while it is hot.

("Sheng Ji Zong Lu" Chen Xiang Wan) 7 Treat stomach cold for a long time. Two: Aquilaria sinensis, Perilla frutescens and Cardamom each have money.

To end it.

Five or seven minutes each time, persimmon soup.

("Living Heart in One") 8 Treatment of large intestine qi stagnation and deficiency: grind Aquilaria Resinatum juice into eight parts, take one or two of Angelica sinensis, Fructus Aurantii, almond paste, Cistanche deserticola and Aster, and decoct with water, and take it with Aquilaria Resinatum juice.

(Authentic Prescription for Pulse Diagnosis) 9. If you treat cells that can't turn, or if you tolerate urination too much, the more you treat your qi, the more unprofitable drugs you can pass: two yuan each for Aquilaria Resinatum and Radix Aucklandiae.

To end it.

Take the white soup on an empty stomach, and take communication as the degree.

("Rong Yuan Medical Base")

original shape

(1) agarwood evergreen tree, up to 30 meters. The young branches are covered with silky hair. Leaves alternate, slightly leathery, elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5.5 ~ 9 cm long, apex acuminate, entire, and lower veins are sometimes silky; With short handle, about 3 mm long. Umbellies; Sessile, or with short total pedicels, covered with silky hairs; Flowers white, as long as or shorter than pedicels; Perianth is bell-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 0.7 ~ 1 cm long, and the throat of 10 scale is densely covered with white fluff, with silky hairs outside and fluff inside. Corolla tube is slightly equal to perianth lobes. Stamens 10, inserted on perianth tube, 5 of which are longer; The ovary is superior, rectangular, densely pilose, 2-loculed, with extremely short style, large stigma and oblate. Capsule obovate, woody, flat, 4.6 ~ 5.2 cm long, densely covered with gray-white fluff, with a slightly woody persistent perianth at the base. The seed is usually 1, ovoid, with angular appendages at the base, which is about twice as long as the seed. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruiting period is May-June. Wild or cultivated in tropical areas.

② Aquilaria sinensis (Notes of South Vietnam), also known as Aquilaria Resinatum (Guangxi), Daughter Fragrant (Addendum), Tooth Fragrant Tree, Crown Fragrant Tree and Liu Ma Tree. Evergreen tree Bark grayish brown, branchlets and inflorescences pilose. Leaves alternate, leathery, oblong, obovate or oval, 6 ~ 12 cm long and 2 ~ 4.5 cm wide, with a sharp and blunt apex, a wedge-shaped base, the whole margin, thinning on both sides, and then gradually falling off, smooth and bright; Petiole about 5 mm long, pilose. Umbellies terminal and axillary; The total pedicel is covered with gray-white fluff, and the small pedicels are 0.5 ~ 1.2 cm long and covered with gray-white fluff; Flowers yellow-green, tomentose; Perianth is bell-shaped, 5-lobed, oblong, about 7 mm long and 4 mm wide, with obtuse apex and 10 scale at the throat of perianth tube, densely covered with white fluff, about 5 mm long, and the base is connected into a ring; Stamens 10, filaments stout; Ovary ovoid, densely villous. Capsule obovate, woody, flat, 2.5 ~ 3 cm long, densely covered with gray hairs, with a slightly woody persistent perianth at the base. The seeds are brownish-black, ovoid, about 65438 0 cm long, tapering at the top, with horny appendages at the base of the seeds, reddish brown, 2 cm long, and swollen at the upper part. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruiting period is May-June. Born in sparse forests or flat barren hills, there is a small amount of cultivation.

Reference source

Explain the nature of drugs prepared by Lei Gong, translate the meaning of drugs, and the new edition of materia medica.

In fact, there is still a little bit about the medicinal value of Aquilaria sinensis, which is just the experience that we modern people have explored in constant practice. It is now that agarwood is made into many finished products, such as agarwood beads and agarwood pendants. So that Aquilaria sinensis can always exist around us. Finally, it is concluded that the fragrance of Aquilaria sinensis can give us elegant fragrance, as well as magical effects such as customs clearance, enlightenment and health care. So the medicinal value of agarwood is immeasurable.

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