The main aroma characteristics of agarwood are “clear, elegant, mellow, and rich”. Its fragrance is volatile and becomes more intense when heated.
Hainan agarwood: Its aroma is sweet, fresh, and elegant. Hainan agarwood was once praised as “the best under heaven”, with a clear and translucent fragrance, featuring unique floral, fruity notes and a honey-like charm.
The aroma of Qi Nan is particularly special: it has a strong fragrance at room temperature, and when heated, it unfolds with rich layers (such as cool fragrance, milky fragrance, and fruity fragrance in sequence). It also has a long-lasting scent, making it the most precious category of agarwood.
In traditional Chinese medicine, agarwood is an important medicinal material, recorded in classics such as Compendium of Materia Medica and Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica. Its nature, flavor, meridians entered, and efficacy are as follows:
Nature, flavor, and meridians entered: It is warm in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, and enters the kidney, spleen, and stomach meridians.
Core efficacy:
- Promoting qi circulation to relieve pain: Alleviates abdominal distension and pain, as well as chest and hypochondriac qi stagnation. It is often used to treat stomach pain caused by stomach cold and chest tightness due to liver qi stagnation.
- Warming the middle energizer to stop vomiting: Has a significant effect on vomiting and hiccups caused by stomach cold, and can be combined with ginger, clove, etc. to enhance the effect.
- Assisting qi reception to relieve asthma: Targets deficiency asthma caused by “kidney failure in receiving qi” (such as chronic asthma, emphysema), relieving symptoms such as shortness of breath and more exhalation than inhalation. It is often combined with perilla fruit and psoralea.
Modern research: Agarwood contains volatile oils (such as agarospirol, baimuxinic acid, etc.), which have sedative, anti-inflammatory, and gastrointestinal function-regulating effects. Its extracts are also used in cosmetics and the perfume industry.
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