Agarwood
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Other Names : Aquilaria agallocha / Aquilaria malaccensis,Oud, Oudh, oodh, agar, aloeswood, Agalocha, lign-aloes, Chann crassna, Agar, agor/agoro gach (আগর গাছ), chénxiāng (沉香), Cham Heong, jinkō (沈香), ཨ་ག་རུ་, sasi, sashi, gaharu, ghara, Mai Krishna (ไม้กฤษณา), Akil (அகில்), Mai Ketsana (ໄມ້ເກດສະໜາ),Thit Mhwae, Walla Patta(වල්ල පට්ට).
Agarwood is a dark resinous heartwood that forms in Aquilaria and Gyrinops trees (large evergreens native to southeast Asia) when they become infected with a type of mould. Prior to infection, the heartwood is odourless, relatively light and pale coloured; however, as the infection progresses, the tree produces a dark aromatic resin in response to the attack, which results in a very dense, dark, resin embedded heartwood.
Special Precautions of Agarwood
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should always consult a doctor before using any essential oils including agarwood.
- Agarwood essential oil is considered safe to apply topically but it is always best practice to dilute essential oils with a carrier oil and do a patch test first.
- See precautions Aromatherapy.
Health Benefits and uses of Agarwood
- Calms the body, removes destructive and negative energies, provides enhanced awareness, reduces fear, invokes a feeling of vigour and harmony, and enhances mental functionality
- Eases neurotic and obsessive behavior and helps create harmony and balance in your home
- Highly psychoactive
- For meditation, enlightenment
- bringing deep tranquility and relaxation.
- suggested by proficient masters for giving inspiration and the imperative affection for meditation.
- to bring connection with the transcendent, stimulating the psyche, human body and consciousness.
- It is said that prayers rise with the scented smoke of agarwood incense and carry the prayer to the Creator. The angels are attracted to the scent and Oud smoke. That is why Muslims love to burn Oud wood and fumigate their houses on Thursday nights, the holiest of the weeknights to them.
- Buddhists deploy agarwood for transmutation of ignorance.
- Tibetan monks utilize it to convey energy to wind down the mind and spirit.
- The Sufis and Japanese shamans use agarwood oil in their esoteric rites. helps to improve mental clarity, opens the third eye and all of the upper chakras while calming the whole entire spiritual system.
- Medically, agarwood is a tonic, aphrodisiac, diuretic, relieves epilepsy, antimicrobial, carminative, anti-asthmatic.
- Used in nervous disorders, digestive, bronchial complaints, smallpox, rheumatism, illness during and after childbirth, spasms in the digestive and respiratory systems, fevers, abdominal pain, asthma, cancer, colic, diarrhea, nausea, regurgitation, weakness in the elderly, shortness of breath, chills, general pains and cirrhosis of the liver. It also acts as a director or focuser for other medicines.
- Cancer : An Agarwood compound showed potential as a cell killing agent for gastric cancer cells. It has been used as a treatment for lung and stomach tumors.
- Diuretic function : Agarwood essential oil has diuretic properties meaning that it promotes more frequent urination as well as increasing the quantity of urine produced. This means that agarwood essential oil can be used to help detoxify the body and clean out any excess salt and uric acid that can lead to a number of complaints.
- Digestive function : Agarwood essential oil has been used throughout the centuries to treat a number of digestive issues. Agarwood has carminative and stomachic properties that can help relieve embarrassing and painful gas build up in the stomach while also preventing any build-up of gas for those who are prone.
- When massaged into the tummy, Agarwood essential oil is also said to support the secretion of digestive acids and gastric juices and relieve indigestion and bloating.
- Japanese research has shown that the leaves of Agarwood can be used in a tea to act as a natural laxative.
- Skin : Agarwood essential oil is also used as a general skin tonic and can help nourish the skin and treat a number of skin conditions. Agarwood essential oil helps to repair damaged skin cells and fight the damage caused by the free radicals that we face every day. Many of the signs of aging such as wrinkles and age marks can be treated with agarwood essential oil. Add a drop of agarwood oil to your normal face cleanser to improve the tone and complexion of your facial skin.
