What Is Frankincense Resin?

Frankincense, Chinese medicine name. Resin exuding from the bark of the olive family Boswellia carterii Birdw. And its genus Boswellia bhaurdajiana Birdw. Divided into Somali frankincense and Ethiopian frankincense, each frankincense is also boswelled and frankincense beads.

Chinese scientific name: mastic
nickname: Nipple incense, Tianze incense
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae
Head: Saprophyta
Branch: Olive branch

Genus: Frankincense
Species: Frankincense tree
distribution area: North Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Arabia
Harvest time: Available in spring and summer
Amount: 3 5g
Poisonous: Non-toxic
Storage: Keep in a cool and dry place
Chinese medicine name: mastic

Frankincense physiological characteristics

This product is a long ovoid dripping milk-like, round-like particles or irregular blocks of different sizes. The larger one is 2cm (boswellia) or 5cm (original frankincense). The surface is yellowish white, translucent, with yellowish white powder. Brittle, softened by heat. The broken surface has a glass-like or wax-like luster. With a special aroma, slightly bitter.

Origin of Frankincense

North Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Turkey and other places.

Frankincense application site

Plant resin.

Frankincense Crafting Party

Vinegar frankincense, take the pure frankincense, and follow the vinegar broiling method (the method of adding or selecting a certain amount of rice vinegar after the net selection or cutting of the drug is stir-frying). (For every 100 kg of frankincense, use 5 kg of vinegar.)

Frankincense

Hard, bitter, warm.

Frankincense Meridian

Return to heart, liver, and spleen.

Frankincense effect

Promotes blood circulation, relieves pain, and swells muscles.

Frankincense Indications

It is used for chest pain, epigastric pain, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, rheumatism and pain, tendon and vein contraction, bruises, carbuncle and sore.

Frankincense related compatibility

1, Qi stagnation back pain: Aoki incense, frankincense each two dollars. Wine dipping and steaming on rice are served with wine. ("Sheng Huifang")

2. Diarrhea in children: five dollars of nutmeg, two and a half dollars of frankincense, five slices of ginger. Stir-fry black, remove ginger, grind for cream, spin pill mung beans large. For each size, drink rice. ("Quanyouxinjian")

3. Scabies of Scabies: Forty-two needles, one or two for frankincense, and five alum for the last. Drinking money for two money, sweating for the degree. ("Puji Party")

Frankincense Usage and Dosage

Decoction or into pills and powder, 3 ~ 5g;

Frankincense Taboo

Use with caution in pregnant women and those with weak stomachs.

Frankincense Related Discussion

1. "Famous Doctors' Records": "Treat Feng Shui poisoning and remove bad qi."

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Remove the poisons of gangrene, protect the heart, promote blood circulation and pain, treat women with dystocia, and break wounds." Ask for medicine .... The obstetric prescriptions use it a lot, and they also take their blood for blood. "

3 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Frankincense, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and relieving pain and pain.... And falling down, damaging the bones and bones, and postpartum qi and blood attack, pain in the heart and abdomen, use this constantly, salty to take its spices Scattered, scattered blood and pus, ventilation and stagnation are also special skills. "

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