Efficacy and effects of sandalwood and contraindications

April 3, 2023

The medicinal part of sandalwood is the dried heartwood of the trunk of sandalwood, family Sandalwoodaceae. It is mainly produced in India, Australia, Indonesia, etc., and in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan, etc. Sandalwood is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians. It can move the air and warm the middle, open the stomach and relieve pain.

Promoting warmth and circulation

Sandalwood is pungent, warm and aromatic, good at regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach, can benefit the diaphragm and broaden the chest, and can be used to treat painful chest paralysis caused by cold stagnation in the chest and diaphragm.

Relieving pain and appetite

Sandalwood aroma is pungent to move Qi and warm to disperse cold, so it can warm the middle, move Qi and relieve pain, and can be used to treat cold pain in the stomach and epigastrium, less food and vomiting and other spleen and stomach discomfort.

Beauty and spot reduction

Sandalwood oil can promote skin metabolism, accelerate skin cell renewal and growth, and accelerate the repair and healing of wounds and scars, help repair damaged skin cells, can eliminate facial pigmentation, and also has a good antibacterial effect, can improve skin inflammation, itching and other discomforts.

Calming and Tranquilizing

The relaxing effect of sandalwood can calm nervous tension and anxiety, and has a calming effect more than an uplifting one, giving people a sense of peace and calm.

Sandalwood's pharmacological effects

1, sandalwood contains α-sandalol, β-sandalol has similar neuropharmacological activity with chlorpromazine, and has a sedative effect on the central nervous system of mice. 2, sandalwood volatile oil has an inhibitory effect on intestinal motility hyperactivity in mice; sandalwood oil has a diuretic effect; it has an inhibitory effect on dysentery bacillus and tuberculosis bacillus.

Contraindications to the use of sandalwood

Sandalwood is pungent and strong, such as Yin deficiency and fire is prohibited, so as not to dry too much to consume Yin and aggravate the symptoms of Yin deficiency. The "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "prohibited fire baking, carbuncles and gangrene ulcerated pus more prohibited."

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