Top Quality Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum

Agarwood is a large evergreen tree, up to 15 meters high, there are aroma. Bark gray-brown, young branches pilose. Leaves Alternate; Leaf Blade Leathery, long ovate, obovate or elliptic, apex acuminate, Shiny, base cuneate, entire, underside and Petiole appressed velutinous, later gradually glabrous. Umbel terminal and AXILLARY, total peduncles, small peduncles are gray-white velutinous; flowers yellowish-green, velutinous; perianth campanulate, perianth Tube Apex 5-lobed, lobes Oblong, perianth tube throat 10 scales, densely white velutinous; stamens 10, inserted in throat of perianth Tube, filaments very short or absent; ovary superior, ovate. Capsule Woody, oblate-ovate, pendulous, densely gray hairy, perianth persistent. Seeds 1-seeded, base with angular appendages. FLORESCENCE IS 3 ~ 5 months, FRUIT IS 5 ~ 6 months. Grows in the plain, the hilly Earth Ridge sparse forest acid yellow loam soil or the barren mountain, has the cultivation. Distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Taiwan and other places. Can Be harvested throughout the year, cut resin-containing wood, remove resin-free parts, dry. The characters of medicinal materials are irregular blocks, sheets or helmet-shaped, some of which are small fragments. Uneven surface, there are knife marks, occasionally holes, visible black-brown resin and yellow-white wood with interlaced stripes, holes and pits were rotten wood-like surface. The quality is more solid, the cross-section thorn shape. The smell is sweet and the taste bitter.

Sexual Taste Channel: Taste Pungent, bitter, mild temperature. Kidney Meridian, SPLEEN MERIDIAN, stomach Meridian.

Efficacy and role: Gas Pain Relief, warm stop vomiting, na Qi Pingchuan. Herbs for regulating Qi.

Pharmacological Research: it can relieve the spasm of intestinal smooth muscle, inhibit central nervous system and so on. The decoction could inhibit the spontaneous contraction of isolated Guinea pig ileum and antagonize the spasmodic contraction induced by Histamine and Acetylcholine. The ethanol extract can promote the antihistamine effect of isolated Guinea pig trachea and exert the antiasthmatic effect. In addition, with spasmolysis, sedation, Analgesia, hypotension, antibacterial effect.