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​Han traditional fragrance ingredients

Traditional fragrances commonly used:

The fragrant medicines used in traditional fragrances are not only the agarwood, sandalwood, cypress, etc. we often listen to, but also many other Chinese medicinal materials used as medicines are used in traditional incense prescriptions. They are generally aromatic medicinal materials, so traditional Chinese medicine and traditional incense culture are inseparably related. Many traditional incense prescriptions also have medicinal value, and even burning incense is one of the healing modes of patients. Therefore, it has the same name of fragrance and medicine. The following introduce some commonly used traditional incense incense commonly used drugs.

Agarwood

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, bitter, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, and kidney channels.

Functions and indications: lowering qi, regulating the middle, warming the kidney, relieving pain. Indications: chest and abdomen pain, vomiting, hiccups, shortness of breath.

sandalwood

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians.

Functions and Indications: Appetizing appetite and relieving pain during the temperature. It is used for cold coagulation qi stagnation, uncomfortable chest and diaphragm, chest pain, pain in the stomach, abdominal pain, vomiting and less food.

Cedar

Nature and flavor and return to classics: Gan, Ping. Enter the heart, liver, spleen, kidney and bladder meridians.

Functions and indications: It has the functions of health care, beauty and skin beautification.

mastic

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent taste; bitter; lukewarm. Heart; Liver; Spleen Channel.

Functions and indications: Promoting blood circulation and promoting qi; promoting menstruation and relieving pain; reducing swelling and promoting muscle growth. Main heart and abdomen pain; rheumatic arthralgia; amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea; bruises and bruises; carbuncle swollen toxin; intestinal carbuncle;

Myrrh

Nature and flavor and return to classics: bitter; flat. Liver; Spleen; Heart; Kidney Channel.

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and relieving pain; reducing swelling and promoting muscle. Main chest and abdomen with stasis and pain; dysmenorrhea; amenorrhea; lumps; bruises; carbuncle swelling and sore; intestinal carbuncle; red eyes, swelling and pain.

cinnamon

Nature and flavor and return to classics: pungent, sweet, hot. Return to the kidney, spleen, heart, and liver channels.

Functions and indications: Replenishing fire and assisting yang, guiding fire to its source, dispelling cold and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and promoting menstruation. It is used for impotence, cold uterus, cold pain of waist and knees, kidney deficiency and asthma, dizziness due to yang deficiency, red eyes and sore throat, cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea due to cold, cold hernia, dolphin, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.

Xin Yi

Nature and flavor return to classics: pungent, warm. Return to the lung and stomach meridian.

Functions and indications: dispel wind and cold, clear nose orifices. Used for wind-cold headache, nasal congestion, rhinoplasty, runny nose and turbid nose.

Borneol

Nature, flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, bitter, slightly cold. Guixin, Spleen, Lung Channel.

Functions and Indications: Invigorate the body and refresh the mind, clear away heat and relieve pain. It is used for fever, fainting, convulsions, stroke, phlegm, qi depression, coma, nausea, chest pain, red eyes, mouth sores, throat swelling and pain, ear drainage.

clove

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney channels.

Functions and Indications: To reduce the adverse effects of temperature, invigorate the kidney and assist yang. Used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, hiccups, vomiting, vomiting and diarrhea after eating less food, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, and impotence of kidney deficiency.

Huoxiang

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, lukewarm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridian.

Functions and indications: Aromatize turbidity, stop vomiting, release heat relief. It is used for damp turbidity, vomiting, swelling and vomiting, heat and dampness syndrome, early onset of dampness and temperature, fever, fatigue, chest tightness, cold and dampness, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, rhinorrhea headache.

Woody

Nature and flavor return to menstruation: pungent, bitter, warm. Enter the liver, spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridian.

Functions and indications: Invigorate qi to relieve pain, warm and neutralize the stomach. Cure the cold and qi stagnation, chest and abdomen pain, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, dysentery, dysentery, pain, worms, abdominal pain. To relieve pain by promoting qi for health; for simmering to relieve diarrhea.

Calamus

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, bitter, warm. Guixin, stomach meridian.

Functions and Indications: Resuscitating and eliminating phlegm, soothing mind and improving intelligence, reducing dampness and appetizing. It is used for dizziness, epilepsy, forgetfulness, insomnia, tinnitus and deafness, diarrhea and diarrhea.

Shanxi

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, warm. Owned by the stomach meridian.

Functions and Indications: In the middle of the temperature, digestion and pain relief. It is used for fullness of the chest and diaphragm, cold and pain in the stomach and abdomen, and incessant diet.

Gan Song

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, sweet, warm. Return to the spleen and stomach meridian.

Functions and Indications: Regulating Qi and relieving pain, opening depression and awakening the spleen; Used for abdominal distension, loss of appetite, and vomiting; external use to treat toothache, beriberi and poison.

Turmeric

Nature and flavor and return to menstruation: pungent, bitter, cold. Return to the liver, heart, and lung meridians.

Functions and Indications: Promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, promoting qi and relieving depression, clearing the heart and cooling blood, promoting gallbladder and relieving jaundice. It is used for chest pain, chest pain, chest pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, breast tenderness, fever and dizziness, epilepsy, fever, bloody vomiting, jaundice and red urine.

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