This product is derived from the resin-containing wood of the evergreen tree Aquilaria (Aquilaria agallocha Roxb.) and White Aucklandia Root (A. sinensis (Lour.) Gilg) of the Thymelaeaceae family. White Aucklandia Root is primarily produced in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Taiwan, while Aquilaria is mainly found in Southeast Asia and India. The resin-containing wood can be harvested year-round, with the non-resin parts removed and dried in the shade. It is then ground into powder and used in its raw form.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Acrid and bitter, warm. Act on spleen, stomach and kidney meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Moving qi to relieve pain, warming middle and arresting vomiting, improving qi reception and relieving dyspnea.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for chest and abdominal distension and fullness pain. This product is pungent, aromatic, and warm in nature, good at dispersing chest and abdominal pudendal coldness, moving qi to relieve pain. It is used to treat congealing cold and qi stagnation causing chest and abdominal distension and fullness pain, often combined with Lindera, Aucklandia Root, Areca Seed, etc., such as in the "Weisheng Jiabao" Aquilaria Four Milled Ingredients Decoction. For treating deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach causing epigastric cold pain, it is often paired with Cassia Bark, Dried Ginger, Aconite Lateral Root, etc., such as in Weisheng Baojian Aquilaria, Cinnamon Bark and Aconite Daughter Root Pill.
2. Used for stomach cold vomiting. This product is pungent and warm to disperse cold, bitter in taste to descend and discharge, good at warming stomach and dissipating cold, downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting. For treating cold evil invading the stomach, vomiting clear water, it can be combined with Dried Tangerine Peel, mountain spicy tree fruit, Pepper Fruit, etc., such as in Shengji Zonglu Aquilaria Pill. For treating long-term hiccups due to stomach cold, it can be combined with Persimmon Calyx, Cardamon Fruit, Perilla Leaf, etc.
3. Used for deficiency-type dyspnea syndrome. This product can both warm the kidney to improve qi reception and downbear counterflow to relieve panting, suitable for treating deficiency-type dyspnea syndrome caused by coldness in the lower origin and failure of the kidney to receive qi, often combined with Cassia Bark, Aconite Lateral Root, Psoralea, etc., such as in Black Tin Pill. For treating phlegm-fluid retention panting due to upper excess and lower deficiency, it is often combined with cultivated purple perilla fruit, Pinellia, Magnolia Bark, etc.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Bielu: "Treats all wind edema, toxic swelling, and removes malign qi."
2. Rihuazi Bencao: "Regulates the middle, tonifies the five zang-organs, benefits essence and tonifies yang, warms the waist and knees, stops spasms, vomiting, diarrhea, and cold qi, breaks up abdominal masses, cold wind paralysis, joint immobility, wind-dampness cutaneous pruritus, and qi dysentery."
3. Bencao Jingshu: "Aquilaria treats cold qi, rebellious qi, and qi stagnation, and is a particularly important medicine."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct 1-3g, to be added later; or grind and take as an infusion, or take as a powder in pills, 0.5-1g each time.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains volatile oil, which includes benzylacetone and p-methoxybenzylacetone. Additionally, it contains hydrogenated cassia bark acid and p-methoxy hydrogenated cassia bark acid. This product has an inhibitory effect on the movement of isolated small intestine in rabbits. The volatile oil it contains promotes the secretion of digestive juices and bile.