Chinese Eaglewood chen xiang wood

LATIN NAME: AQUILARIA SINENSIS

COMMON NAME: Chen Xiang

The chen xiang resins the tall, evergreen tree with the smooth, grey bark and the leathery, oblong, dark-green leaves, the small, white flowers forming in the umbels along the branches, the woody, pear-shaped capsules following, the tree resins the heartwood where the trunk is wounded. It grows steadily into the upright, open crown, and it stands the warm, humid climate well. It likes the sun or the light shade, and the deep, moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The fragrant resinous heartwood of the chen xiang gives it a recognised place in the research on the resin-forming trees of the agarwood family, and the sinensis species appears in the studies of the wound-response wood and the fragrant-wood tropical plants. The work looks at the way the dark resin forms in the wounded trunk, the lowland forest habit, and the seed biology. The foresters value the precious agarwood, and the growers of the aromatic and rare-wood plantations keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm forest, the chen xiang resins the workshop with the dark, scented wood. The fragrant timber serves the incense and the carving for the ages, the small fruits feed the wildlife, and the tree makes the fine shade and the plantation tree. It thrives in the deep, moist, well-drained ground. Dark-hearted, resinous and precious.

To grow the Chen Xiang from seed, sow the small seeds fresh in a rich, moist seedbed under light shade.

Sow the small seeds fresh in a rich, moist seedbed under light shade, and give the young trees the warm, sheltered spot. The resin heartwood comes within the years. , keeping them humid, keep the seedbed gently watered, and the young trees come on gently. The resin heartwood will darken within the years.

this wood is Precious herbs.

The herb is pungent and bitter in flavour, and warm in nature. It acts on the spleen, stomach and kidney channels. Being pungent for dispersing, warm for clearing, sinking and flowing downward, it is good at promoting Qi circulation, dispersing cold, alleviating pain, lowering the adverse flow of Qi in the lung and stomach, eliminating hiccup relieving asthma. The herb is suitable for treatment of cold accumulation, Qi stagnation and distending pain in the chest and abdomen, adverse flow of Qi in the lung and stomach, asthma, cough, vomiting, hiccup and other syndromes.

Effects: Promoting Qi circulation, alleviating pain, lowering adverse flow of Qi, arresting vomiting, helping inspiration and relieving asthma.