Since ancient times, spices play an important role in the process of dietary seasoning, medicine and health care, lavender makeup, fragrant environment, religious sacrifices, etc., and the taste of clothing, wine, tea, and food are inseparable from fragrance, and fragrant clothes, fragrant wine, fragrant tea, fragrant food, fragrant medicine and other fragrant things have added a lot of flavor to people's daily life and provided a lot of help.

It is reflected in the poems and songs of literati such as Li Yu, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Li Qingzhao, Zhu Xi, etc., and the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as "The Golden Vase of Plums", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Mirror Flowers", closely linked spices with daily life.

Summarizing the customs and traditions of the ancients of burning incense and incense, it is found that its purpose and function are mainly as follows: sacrificing to the gods to nourish feelings, health care and healing to maintain health, incense to the environment to nourish the nose, and incense clothes to recreation to nourish nature. This is because the natural sciences are not developed, so incense is burned to pray to the gods.

For example, "Zhou Lichun Official" contains "Purification and Provocation (Same Smoke) Bath in the Year of the Palm". The second is that the ancients lived on the ground, and burning herbs can remove dampness, drive away insects and filth, and purify the ambient air.

For example, "Poetry in July" contains "the dome suffocates the smoked rat and stuffs it into the household". Third, the aroma is fragrant, which can be pleasant. Fourth, the preference of the upper class to use lavender and dye quilts such as weeds is not only a symbol of status, but also to achieve the benefits of fitness and skin cleansing.

For example, "The Selection of Han Official Ceremony" contains "Shang Shulang...... The two maids cleaned their clothes and burned them with an incense burner." In English, the word "perfume" comes from the Latin word "perfumum", which means "through smoke", indicating that the ancient Western use of spices was also through incense. [1]

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To boil it down, the main functions of incense are as follows.

Landscaping: Good spices are used for incense, which can produce a very fresh and elegant aroma, which has a very obvious effect on removing room odors and beautifying the indoor environment.

Pleasant and pleasant: agarwood, sandalwood, musk, dragon incense and other high-quality incense products for smoking is the first incense of the incense to produce a mellow, elegant, refreshing spleen, not only to beautify the environment, but also to add a bit of life to people.

Meditation practice: The beautiful aroma has the function of calming the nerves and opening the mind, which can assist the practitioner to achieve purification and positive concentration.

Offering to the gods: There are few high-quality incense products specially used for sacrifices, and some incense products made of natural spices to assist cultivation and cultivate feelings can be used as sacrificial incense.

Most of the common "sacrificial incense" is only marked with the sacrificial theme on the packaging and name. For example, some indicate the gods to be worshipped: offering Buddha incense, Guanyin incense, God of Wealth incense, etc.; some indicate the content of the prayer: blessing incense, auspicious peace incense, etc.; some indicate the place of worship: Wutai Mountain, Putuo Mountain, etc. As for the quality of the incense, it is uneven.

Health and disease: The raw materials of incense products are natural spices and Chinese herbal medicines, which can be subdivided into different types according to different efficacy, and each fragrance has a corresponding specific formula and production process.

Health and disease relieving incense products focus on formulas, materials and production processes, and the appearance can be diverse and informal. For example, incense products to prevent plague: most of them are incense sticks or incense sticks, and incense products to improve sleep: incense pillows and sachets filled with special incense medicines, or incense sticks and incense sticks for burning.

Production method: Du Heng, Yuelin incense, Jatamansi, Suhe, Anxi, Tulip, Duo, Heluo, cloves, agarwood, sandalwood, musk, black agarwood, white brain, Angelica dahurica, Duhuo, Jatamansi, Triad, Huoxiang, Rootroot, Galangal, Fennel, Wood Fragrance, Mother Clove, Asarium, Rhubarb, Canaan, Water Rest, Rose Petal, Borneol, Ambergris.

The earliest human use of Du Heng can be traced back to the record in Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs, Mountain Ghosts": Du Heng was taken by Shi Lanxi, and he was left behind.

Sweet rosin: slightly conical, curved, 5~18cm long. The rhizome is short, with stem and leaf residues at the upper end, and is narrow and membranous sheet or fibrous.

The outer layer is dark brown and the inner layer is brown or yellow. The roots are single or several interconnected, branched or juxtaposed, with a diameter of 0.3~1cm. The surface is tan, shrunken, with fine roots and fibrous roots.

The texture is brittle, easy to break, the section is rough, the skin is dark brown, often lobes, and the wood is yellowish-white. The air is peculiar, the taste is bitter and pungent, and there is a refreshing feeling.

Suhexiang: It is a resin secreted by the witch hazel family. Suhexiang is a semi-fluid, thick liquid, yellowish-white to grayish-brown, translucent, viscous, and continuous. weight, sinking when entering the water.

The gas is aromatic, the taste is slightly bitter and spicy and fragrant. It is better to have brown or dark brown, translucent and no impurities. It should be packed in an iron cylinder, soaked in water, and placed in a cool place to prevent the fragrance from being lost.

Benzoin: It is a mass formed by pressing spherical particles, varying in size, reddish-brown to gray-brown on the outside, embedded with yellowish-white and gray-white opaque almond-like particles, and the surface is rough and uneven. The texture is brittle at room temperature, and it softens when heated. The smell is aromatic and slightly pungent.

Its resin can be used instead of benzoin resin to treat stroke, fainting, heart and abdominal pain, and has the effect of opening the body and fixing blood.

Yujin: "Reading of Materia Medica": "Yujin, the smell of bitter cold, is said to be cold and good at descending, bitter and good at discharge."

The blood is accumulated in the clouds, the blood is not good, it is the accumulation, the accumulation is the bad blood, the blood is reversed, from the mouth and nose, it is the blood vomiting blood, the blood goes down, the stool is drowned, the pain is bloody, the painless is the blood in the urine, that is, the stasis of the gold sores does not go, the blood and water are continuous, and the muscles cannot be generated.

Covering the blood is mainly qi, and the one who is also marked with qi will vent his qi with bitter cold, that is, he will break his blood and take other medicines further.

If the water is not adjusted, and those who are closed because of reality may wish to decide on this, and if they are closed because of nothingness, it is their revenge. And the disease starts from depression, that is, the so-called "Neijing" Eryang disease of the heart and spleen, there is a deep purpose, if you mistakenly believe that this medicine is used frequently to relieve depression, ten do not save one.

As for pregnancy, it is most taboo to attack, and this medicine should not touch the lips. That is, in the postpartum period, those who do not stop stasis should not be used lightly. If the external evil is not purified, and the evil spirit is used to attack the inside, the evil spirit will take advantage of the void and sink inside. If the qi and blood are deficient, and the deficiency is repeated, the qi and blood will have no root and fall off. This female science is used to the harm of Yujin. “

Clove: nail-like reddish-brown bud is the raw material of essential oil, the average height of the tree is about 5~6 meters, the main production areas are Sri Lanka, Guava, Madagascar, distillation method, its fragrance is a little fresh moss and woody floral fragrance, is an indispensable fragrance in the perfume manufacturing industry, and is often added to the wine, the color of the essential oil is transparent and colorless.

It has a positive effect on the mood and relieves unhappiness or chest tightness caused by emotional depression. It can be diluted and used for skin wounds such as sores, carbuncles, boils, boils, etc., and has the effect of reducing swelling and anti-inflammation to promote healing.

Agarwood: Domestic agarwood: also known as Hainan agarwood, Hainan agarwood, white wood incense, guan incense, daughter incense, earth agarwood, etc...... It is a wood containing black resin with a white wood fragrance. It is mainly produced on Hainan Island.

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