What diseases can agarwood cure?

Agarwood is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. After being collected, agarwood needs to be processed before it can be used. Agarwood is a substance that we don’t see often in our lives, but its medicinal effects are very powerful. It can treat some disease symptoms, but the use of agarwood in traditional Chinese medicine depends on the changes in the disease. Therefore, we should understand the pharmacological properties of agarwood in detail. What diseases can agarwood cure?

What diseases can agarwood treat?

Regulates Qi and relieves pain

Agarwood is spicy and warm, warm without being dry, and can move without leaking, and it has a good effect in moving qi and relieving pain. Improper diet, external cold evil, worry, anger, liver damage and stomach upset, etc., the warmth of agarwood can promote qi, digest food, relieve stagnation, and heal the bloating and pain. As for injuries from falls, blocked meridians and blood stagnation, pain will occur due to blockage. Using agarwood in combination with blood-activating medicines can enter the blood and eliminate blood stasis and relieve stagnation, with ideal results.

Lowering the adverse pressure and regulating the middle

The wood of agarwood is heavy and sinks, while its fragrance rises and disperses. It harmonizes the stomach qi, raises the spleen qi, is warm but not dry, and is good at moving without leaking. It is very effective for vomiting due to stomach cold, constipation due to yang deficiency and the treatment of cholera.

Traffic Heart and Kidney

The wood of agarwood is heavy but can descend, while its spicy fragrance can ascend. It can both ascend and descend, connecting the heart and kidneys, and balancing water and fire. It has a very good effect on insomnia, dizziness, tinnitus, hot flashes, night sweats, restlessness, forgetfulness, frequent dreams, soreness of waist and knees, and spermatorrhea caused by the inability of water and fire in the heart and kidney to balance each other.

Warming the kidney and absorbing qi

Agarwood sinks, is warm but not dry, flows without being counterproductive, reaches the kidneys and guides fire back to the origin, has the function of lowering qi without the harm of breaking qi. It is a good medicine for asthma and cough caused by kidney deficiency and long-term illness leading to asthma.

Warming the kidney and essence

Agarwood nourishes essence and strengthens yang, warms the waist and knees, and removes evil spirits. For men with cold semen, or congenital deficiency, long-term illness that damages the kidneys, or bad habits of masturbation that damages the essence, agarwood can warm and strengthen the kidney yang, warm the essence and replenish the fluids, and is a good medicine to strengthen the body and return to the origin.

Strengthens Yang and eliminates numbness

Agarwood is pure yang and rises, heavy and descending, pungent and dispersing, and has a strong and rampant Qi, so it has the power of connecting heaven and earth, absorbing true Qi, warming the internal organs, relaxing muscles and tendons, strengthening yang and removing numbness

Other effects

Agarwood alcohol extract has a certain promoting effect on the antihistamine effect of isolated guinea pig trachea. The decoction has a certain antihypertensive effect when injected intravenously into anesthetized cats.

Treating neuralgic headaches

100g floating wheat, 10 jujubes, 25g turmeric, 15g Chuanlianzi, 20g Semen Cassiae, 6g fennel, 5g Chuanfuzi, 5g agarwood, 20g licorice, 30g tortoise shell, 10g dried ginger, 3g calamus, decocted in water and taken orally.

Treat kidney stones and gallstones

Amber 40g, agarwood 20g, lithotripsy 20g, fish brain stone 40g, chuanpo stone 20g, moneywort 30g, sea gold sand 40g, roasted chicken gizzard 40g, sodium sulfate 20g, grind into powder, take 3g each time, orally 3 times a day.

Treat prostate enlargement

Take 30g of raw Astragalus, 20g of Liujinu, 15g of Rehmannia, 20g of Yam, 10g of Cornus, 10g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 10g of Paeonia suffruticosa, 10g of Zedoariae rhizome, 5g of Cinnamon (added later), 3g of Agarwood (added later), 2.5g of Amber, and 10g of Vaccaria segetalis. Boil in water and take orally.

Treat intestinal obstruction in the elderly

Add 6g of agarwood to 300ml of water, boil it and concentrate it to 200ml and drink it first. Then use 120g honey and 150g lard, heat to boiling, stir evenly and drink warm.

Treat abdominal distension, shortness of breath, and restlessness

Stir-fry 50 grams of radish seeds with 25 grams each of agarwood, costus root and bitter orange. Take 25 grams of ginger and boil it in water with three slices.

Treating chronic heartache

50g each of agarwood (filed) and chicken tongue incense, 25g of fumigated incense (ground), and 1 fen of musk (grind to remove the fascia). Grind the above four ingredients into fine powder, take 15 grams each time, add one medium cup of water, boil until seven parts are left, remove the residue, and take warm after meals.

Treats stagnation of the triple energizer, water retention, fullness under the hypochondrium, and stabbing pain in the abdomen

1.5g each of agarwood and dried tangerine peel, 1.5g of betel nut, 15g of amomum villosum, 30g each of green tangerine peel, costus root, white cardamom, and trillium, and 60g of pinellia. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, make into pills the size of tung nuts, take 30 pills each time, with tangerine peel soup. In the formula, agarwood can relieve nausea, soothe asthma, promote qi circulation and relieve pain, and is the assistant medicine.

Treats abdominal distension and coldness in the limbs

30g each of agarwood, betel nut, green tangerine peel, and aconite, 15g each of fennel and evodia rutaecarpa, grind them into powder, take 3g each time, mix with hot wine before meals. In the formula, agarwood warms the middle and dispels cold, promotes qi and relieves pain, and is the main medicine.