Aquilaria sinensis has always been known as the "first in fragrance" and is a rare medicinal material with antibacterial and immune enhancement effects in nature. When burning, it gives off a faint fragrance, which can promote qi circulation and relieve pain, stop vomiting and relieve asthma. At the same time, it also improves the quality of sleep and relieves symptoms such as insomnia, headache and excessive stress. Therefore, agarwood is not a simple collection, but a combination of aromatherapy and medicine, which can also improve the quality of life of collectors in the process of collection.

According to historical records, China's incense culture began in the Spring and Autumn Period, grew in the Han Dynasty, completed in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. As early as the Han dynasty, agarwood has become a good product in the furnace of princes and nobles. With the prosperity and development of Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and other religions, agarwood is used more frequently. The reason why agarwood is widely used as perfume is that the smell it emits when burning is elegant and clean, which is easy to make people calm and enter a peaceful state. It has the effect of naturally regulating the internal qi of the human body and dredging the internal organs. It is a natural health care product.

The topic of "health preservation" has always been a hot topic, especially in the court, "fragrance" is one of the most commonly used health preservation methods. From China's upper-class royalty, even today's Arabs and Japanese royalty have the habit of making incense with agarwood. As a good product of invigorating qi, agarwood has a remarkable effect on the treatment and conditioning of sleep. "Burning agarwood to relieve summer heat" is a rare product for urbanites with fast pace of modern life and busy anxiety all day. It can nourish the body, nourish the heart and preserve health.

Aquilaria sinensis can be made into powder incense, or its essence can be extracted to make Aquilaria sinensis oil. The unique fragrance of this natural spice has the functions of sleeping, anti-depression, pleasure and aphrodisiac, and can achieve the effect of nourishing the heart. For home life, the fragrance of agarwood also has miraculous effects in mosquito repellent, sterilization, dehumidification and air improvement. The tea made from it is even more rare, with rich aroma and unique flavor. It is sweet after entering the throat, with long fragrance, refreshing and endless charm. Trace elements in tea can be described as a special energy supplement for human body, which has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, eliminating epidemic diseases and lowering blood fat. Experiments in Southeast Asian countries show that drinking agarwood tea for a long time has a good effect on intractable skin diseases. It also has excellent pharmacological effects in digestive system, circulatory system and central nervous system, and is really a good recipe for health preservation.

Daphne:

Daphne odora is wood, spice and traditional Chinese medicine, and it is the dried wood part of Aquilaria sinensis or other trees. When stimulated by trauma or fungal infection, the core of Daphne plants will secrete a lot of resin with strong fragrance. These parts are also called "water agarwood" because of their high density. In many parts of the world, Daphne is a precious spice, which is used to burn incense, extract spices, add them to wine, or directly carve them into decorations. Daphne odora is also called Shenshuixiang. Aquilaria wood is hard, mostly insoluble in water, slightly bitter and slightly sweet. When burning, the smoke gives off a strong aroma and black oil seeps out. Daphne odora is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian and other places in China. The quality of Aquilaria sinensis (Xinzhou Xiang) produced in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore is the highest in East Asia. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Daphne has strong antibacterial effect, fragrant into the spleen, refreshing the brain and regulating qi, nourishing the five internal organs, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, warming the stomach and strengthening the spleen, ventilating and relieving pain, and can be used as medicine. This is the best medicine. There are many kinds of Daphne plants, which can be divided into three types according to the oil content: submerged type (this is the essence or middle part of Aquilaria sinensis, and the dense and solid part of the paste will sink when thrown into the water), "raft type" (semi-floating and semi-sinking) and "yellow ripe and fragrant type" (non-submerged). It takes at least a few years to more than ten years for Aquilaria sinensis to grow after it starts to smell fragrant due to pathological changes, but it takes decades or even hundreds of years for a high-quality Daphne plant to form, so the output is very small and the market is in short supply, so it is very precious and has high collection value. In addition, the wood, tree heads and roots of Aquilaria sinensis can be used to make high-grade incense for sacrifice and incense.

Jin Sinan:

Jin Sinan is a precious wood unique to China. The representative species Nanmu (scientific name: Phoebe zhennan S. Lee): formerly known as "Zhennan". Big tree, more than 30 meters high, with straight trunk. Branchlets are usually thin, angular or nearly cylindrical, and are grayish yellow or grayish brown villous or pubescent. Leaves leathery, oval, 7- 1 1 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide. The upper surface is glossy, hairless or hairy along the lower half of midvein, and the lower surface is densely pubescent. Thymus is very stretched and hairy, and each umbel has 3-6 flowers, which are of medium size and 3-4 mm long. Fruit elliptic, leathery, near, pubescent on both surfaces or puberulent outside. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is 9-65438+1October.

Wild or cultivated; Wild species are mostly found in broad-leaved forests below 1500 meters above sea level. Location: Sichuan, China, western Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and provinces south of the Yangtze River. According to records, among all the forests in Jin Sinan, Jin Sinan in Sichuan is the best. Belonging to the national second-class protected plants,

Wood has fragrance, straight texture, fine structure and is not easy to deform and crack. It is an excellent wood for buildings and high-grade furniture. Historically, nanmu was specially used for the buildings and furniture of royal palaces and a few temples. There are obviously more crystals in Jin Sinan wood than ordinary nanmu, and the surface of the wood shines in the sun, with gold thread emerging and elegant fragrance.

Jin Sinan is the general name of Phoebe bournei (including Phoebe bournei, Phoebe bournei, Phoebe bournei, Phoebe bournei, etc.). ) Some materials have gold thread and satin luster. Jin Sinan in a broad sense refers to Nanmu, which is called Jin Sinan. In ancient times [1] and in modern times, Jin Sinan was another name of purple nanmu.