Looking for ancient records about agarwood, does anyone know about it?
The records of agarwood in ancient Chinese texts:
Agarwood is a treasure of traditional Chinese medicine and the king of the four kings of incense.
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Treatment of upper heat and lower cold, qi reversal, wheezing, large intestine deficiency, stranguria, and cold semen in men."
2. "Thunder God" "Explanation of the properties of Chinese medicine for moxibustion": "Agarwood is yang and has a heavy nature. It works mostly in the lower parts, and it is the source of life for the kidneys. However, the aromatic agent is dry and may damage the blood, so it is suitable for those with lower burnt and cold conditions."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Agarwood is an important medicine for treating cold air, adverse qi, qi stagnation, and qi knots."
4. "Medicine of Medicines": "Agarwood, pure It is born from yang, has a heavy weight, and has a pungent and loose taste. It has powerful qi, so it can cure carbuncles on the chest, back, limbs, and itchy skin. Its fragrance can warm and nourish the internal organs and protect the qi. 6. "Haiyao Materia Medica": "It tastes bitter, warm and non-toxic. It is mainly used for heart and abdominal pain, cholera, evil spirits and ghosts, and for purifying people and spirits. It should be boiled with wine and taken. For sores and swelling, it is advisable to use the ointment. ”
7. "Properties of Medicine": "It tastes pungent, the qi is slightly warm, and it is Yang, which can rise or fall." Its nature is warm, so it can suppress yin and help yang, and support the fire phase; its qi is pungent, so it can penetrate the sky and the earth, and reach all qi. It can cure cholera, mute mouth and diarrhea, regulate vomiting, gastric upset, dyspnea, relieve distension and pain in the heart and abdomen, break the mass, treat cold phlegm, harmonize the spleen and stomach, expel ghosts, malaria and bad odor, rheumatic joint paralysis, itchy skin and gas. . ”
8. "Medicinal Properties": "Agarwood has a bitter taste, is warm in nature, non-toxic, and enters the kidney and vitality gate meridians." It mainly dispels bad qi, cures cholera, nourishes the five internal organs, replenishes essence and qi, and strengthens yang. In addition to air-conditioning, broken syndrome, itchy skin and rough skin. ”
9. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "And slightly warm." It is used to treat Feng Shui poisonous swelling and remove bad odor. ”
10. "Depei Materia Medica": "Be sure to avoid fire, hardness, and warmth." Enters kidney and vitality gate. It can treat lower cold and upper heat, eliminate wind and edema poison, eliminate ghosts and scabies, disperse stagnation and reduce phlegm. Cure vomiting and diarrhea, dredge meridians, and remove cold and dampness. If you get the fragrance of wood, you can treat cell blockage. Used with Cistanche deserticola, it can cure constipation of the large intestine; used with Rehmannia glutinosa, it can absorb Qi and return it to the kidneys. It is contraindicated for those with Qi deficiency, yin and blood deficiency, water deficiency and fire inflammation. ”
11. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "In people with yang deficiency in the kidneys, the water will overflow and cause phlegm and saliva, and the fire will rise and cause dyspnea." Agarwood is hard, black and heavy, so it can absorb water and fire and return them to the kidneys. Its aroma is warm in nature, so it can warm the kidneys and regulate qi. It can also clear up stranguria during urination and deficiency and obstruction of the large intestine, but it must not be vented. "
12. "Compendium of Materia Medica": " Pungent, bitter, warm. Enter the life gate of the right kidney. Warms essence and supports yang, warms the middle and calms the liver, lowers qi and reduces phlegm and saliva. When it falls, it can rise, so it regulates Qi and regulates the center. Do not use it if you have yin deficiency. ”
13 “Revisiting the Popular Treatise on Febrile Diseases” records: “Agarwood is good for disharmony between the spleen and stomach, overeating raw, cold, greasy, stagnant, full and stuffy chest and diaphragm, pain in the flanks and abdomen, and all kinds of accumulation of qi and phlegm.” .
14. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Agarwood is specialized in transforming qi. It is suitable for all kinds of stagnant qi if they are not stretched out." It is warm but not dry, moves but does not drain, supports the spleen and reaches the kidneys, and absorbs fire and returns it to its source. ”
Prescription and Usage
1. To treat cold air attack, heart attack, abdominal pain, weak spleen and stomach, weak appetite, easy vomiting, cold phlegm, and mental confusion: agarwood, costus, betel nut, and black medicine. Divide eight parts of the medicine into four parts with a cup of water, grind each medicine one by one in a mortar until the water is thick enough, then combine the four parts into one, simmer over slow fire until six parts have been taken and take it orally ("Health Jiabao" Agarwood Four).
2. Treat yin and yang stagnation, qi failure to rise and fall, chest and diaphragm congestion, heart and abdominal distention, shortness of breath, dryness, fullness of cough, tasteless phlegm and saliva, sleepiness, food loss, and stomach obstruction and retention of water. The vinegar smells sour and the knots under the ribs often feel stuffy: 400 taels of Cyperus rotundus (fried to remove the hair), 18 halves of agarwood and 48 taels of amomum villosum, and 120 taels of licorice (fire prison). Take one dose each as a fine powder. Add a little salt to the soup and drink it ("Prescription" Agarwood Jiangqi Decoction)
3. To treat abdominal distension, asthma and restlessness: stir-fry 1 radish seed each of five qian each of agarwood, agarwood and citrus aurantium. two.
Take 5 qian per serving, 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water. ("Chishui Xuanzhu" Agarwood Drink)
4. To cure long-term heartache: one tael each of agarwood (file) and chicken tongue incense, half a tael of incense (grind) and one point of musk (grind to remove fascia). Pound the above four flavors into fine powder. Take three qian daggers with one medium cup of water each time. Fry until seven minutes. Remove the water and take it warm after eating [1]. ("Agarwood Soup" in "Shengji Zonglu")
5. Agarwood should not be exposed to fire and should be used raw for grinding.
6. For those with cold and qi stagnation, chest and abdominal distension, stuffiness, and cold pain, it can be combined with Wu Yao, Koxiang, and Betel nut to relieve the pain in the middle of the body.
7. For those with insufficient kidney yang, weak vitality fire, cold pain in the navel and abdomen, soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, impotence and cold essence, it can be combined with velvet antler, aconite, rehmannia glutinosa, and Morinda officinalis to warm the kidneys and strengthen yang.
8. If the vitality is insufficient, the kidneys are not able to accept the qi, and the symptoms include wheezing and weakness, it can be matched with aconite, rehmannia glutinosa and gecko.