Aloes
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This product is the resinous wood of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) gilg.
Relative name
Chenxiang, chenshui Xiang, Ganan Xiang, Yaoshen, Jialuo, Mixiang, jiaoshen, Qinan, Yaxiang, Zhanxiang, Jianxiang, Luoshui Shen, Hainan Shen, Hainan Xiang, Qinan Xiang, Penglai Xiang, shengjiexiang, Yishui Xiang
Chenxiang, sandalwood, ambergris and musk are chensandalwood and musk. The ancients called them four famous incense, which are above all kinds of incense, while Chenxiang is above the middle of the top and the most important among the incense.
Aloes is not only a precious spice. Its fragrance is elegant and pleasant. It is the essence of Yin, Yang and five elements. It can not be synthesized artificially, so it is very rare and precious. It is also a pure traditional Chinese medicine, collecting the essence of heaven and earth, and gathering the essence of the sun and moon. Its Qi is a precious medicine.
A thousand sails pass by the side of a sunken boat
After the wood of Chenxiang tree is injured, its tissue changes due to the invasion of fungi. It secretes resin and other substances to repair the injured part, and the substances secreted will combine with air, which starts the slow self healing process of Chenxiang tree.
This process can be as small as decades or as long as hundreds of years, and finally form balsam to condense in the wood. When the wound heals, it is the end of the life of the tree.
After wind and rain, pain and life and death can be said to be the essence of precious aloes, such as people's success must be "painstaking efforts, work their muscles and bones, starve their body and skin.".
Aloe is a dicotyledonous plant, Daphne odora, a tree plant, or a wood containing resin. This resin is a substance which is secreted after being damaged by nature or damaged by human beings and coagulated by fungal infection.
Plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold
Aloe is a kind of solid-state agglomerate mixed with resin and wood. And the wood of this kind of fragrant tree does not produce this special fragrance, that is to say, not all the aloe trees will produce aloe.
There is also the soft wood of aloe, which is easy to absorb the smell of air and water in the surrounding environment, and then generate the original smell in the trunk, so the aloe smell produced in different places will be different.
Chenxiang was first recorded in the distinguished doctor's records and listed as the top grade. It's spicy, bitter and warm. Return the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. It has the effect of warming the kidney and helping Yang. It has a significant effect on relieving pain by Qi. Therefore, it is very effective to treat abdominal distention and pain.
"Medicine" said: "Chenxiang, pure Yang and rise, weight and heavy, the taste of Xin scattered, Qi and male rampant, if the fall and flutter injury, with blood medicine, can disperse stasis and pain It has significant effect on removing blood stasis and promoting new growth of fracture.
"The new edition of Materia Medica" said: "aloe, warm the kidney and open the heart, with Coptis, cinnamon to heart and kidney, not if aloe is more convenient, one medicine and dual-use also." Because of the heavy quality of the aloe, the lid will rise and fall, and the pungent fragrance will rise and fall. It will communicate with the heart and kidney, and help the water and fire, so it is mainly used.
It is the best medicine for doctors to protect the harmony and health. However, if you are alone, you will be weak. When you are compatible with other drugs, you should slow down the effect. In addition, "Puji Fang" recorded that aloe has the effect of promoting blood circulation and beautifying skin, eliminating black spots.
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Generally speaking, the more resin the aloe wood agglomerates, the greater the density of the aloe, the better its quality. Therefore, the ancients often divided the aloe into different grades according to whether the aloe can be immersed or not: the paste and fat are relatively compact and firm, and the person who is immersed in water is called "aloe". It takes decades or even hundreds of years for a piece of high-quality aloe to form.
Therefore, the output of this kind of aloe is very small, but the market demand is very large, so it becomes more precious, so it has a high collection and medicinal value.
Secondly, those who are semi floating and semi sinking are called "stack incense", also known as "paper incense" and "water fragrance".
Thirdly, those floating on the surface of the water are called "yellow ripe fragrance". The pieces of aloes sold in drugstores are mostly of this kind.
Nowadays, we generally divide the aloe into six kinds according to the different formation conditions: because of the age and natural factors, the remaining immortal wood after lodging and wind and rain is called "inverted frame";
The remaining part of the wood, which is decomposed and decayed by microorganisms, is called "soil sinking";
After falling down and buried in the swamp, it is called "water sinking" if it is biodegraded and then fished from the swamp area;
The remaining part is "ant sink", which means that the living trees are cut down artificially and eaten by termites after being placed on the land;
If the living tree is cut down to obtain the aloe, it is called "living sinking";
If the tree is less than 10 years old and has a slight fragrance, it is called "white wood".
The purpose of node formation is to drill holes, cut grooves and inoculate the trunk of daphneceae with mature fragrance glands to cause artificial injury. After five to eight years, the wood with balm will be dug out to form the Sedum wood.
This kind of instant aloe, due to the lack of natural mellow, low content of balsam, impetuous fragrance, into the water does not sink, does not burn when there is basically no fragrance, our drugstore selling aloe pieces are mostly from this source.
The mature knot is to remove the wood and leave the agar wrapped but not rotten part is the real sense of aloe.
It is characterized by a large amount of balsam and basic submergence, especially in rainy days. The medicinal value is very good. Once the artwork made of it is played, it will quickly produce an attractive paste.
See the table below for the identification points of imported and domestic aloes.
The imported aloe is noble and incomparable. The market is full of fakes, and the means of counterfeiting are increasingly sophisticated. The most scientific identification method of authentic products is to use a microscope to observe. The real aloe oil lines and tree textures are arranged in order, and the oil lines are obviously higher than the tree textures. After high pressure, the oil line of pseudoagaricus oil sinks obviously. The field of vision of the permutation of oil soaked pseudo aloes is confused.
Tropism of sexual flavour
Bitterness, bitterness and warmth. Return the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.
Performance characteristics
This product is fragrant and pungent powder. It can warm, clear away cold, taste bitter and heavy, and sink down. Enter the spleen and stomach meridian, be good at Qi relieving pain and reducing adverse effects; enter the kidney meridian, be good at warming the kidney and absorbing Qi. It is a good medicine for regulating qi because it integrates regulating qi, reducing adverse reactions and absorbing Qi in one body, and it is warm but not dry, and does not discharge when it is in operation without damaging Qi.
Effect
Exercise Qi to relieve pain, warm middle to stop vomiting, warm kidney to absorb Qi
Indications of disease
(1) The chest and abdomen of cold congealing and qi stagnation are distended and painful.
(2) Stomach cold and vomiting.
(3) The deficiency of cold in the lower Yuan Dynasty, the deficiency of asthma in the kidney, and the deficiency of phlegm and cough belong to the deficiency of upper and lower.
Usage and dosage
Internal administration: decoct soup, 1-5g, then lower; grind the end, 0.5g-1.5g each time; also take it in pill powder or ground juice.
Use note
This product is warm and helpful to heat, so it should be taken with caution if Yin deficiency and fire are strong and Qi deficiency is depressed.
Story
An old rich man was very worried that his Wanguan family property would bring harm to his spoiled son after a hundred years, so he called his son and told his son the story of starting a business from scratch.
His son was so moved that he decided to go out to find wealth and vowed not to go home without finding treasure. His son built a large ship to go across the ocean, and later found a kind of fragrant tree in the tropical rainforest. So the son took the trees back to his hometown and sold them in the market.
But no one appreciates it, and what annoys people is that a peddler selling charcoal nearby always has a thriving business. The next day, my son burned the fragrant wood into charcoal, and soon sold it out after he picked it up in the market.
In fact, the fragrant wood that my son burned into charcoal is the precious and incomparable "aloe" in the world. As long as you cut a small piece of it and grind it into powder, it's worth more than a cart of charcoal.
Because I don't know the value of "Chenxiang", I sold the precious "Chenxiang" as ordinary charcoal, which is a kind of sadness.
Just like we all have a precious and unique ability like "Chenxiang", but it is often ignored. When we meet something, we always like to deal with it by imitating others, and naturally we will not get the ideal effect.
Everyone has his own advantages and characteristics. As long as we give full play to them, the chances of success will increase. "Chenxiang" has always been on us. It's unnecessary to pursue others' "Chenxiang" painstakingly, so that the Chenxiang in life is always there.
Source: Chinese drugstore