Shen Xiang has the effect of warming the stomach and stopping vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold), moving the qi and relieving pain (by regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), and reducing asthma (astringing the qi to alleviate coughing and wheezing).
Incense belongs to the qi medicine, incense family genus, for the Ruixiang family plant white wood incense containing resin wood. Incense is also known as honey incense. Shenxiang into the stomach meridian, spleen meridian, kidney meridian. The flavor of incense is pungent, bitter and warm. It can be used both internally and externally.
Shenxiang has the effect of warming and stopping vomiting, moving qi and relieving pain, and calming qi and asthma, etc. It is used in the treatment of cold stomach, vomiting and eructation (hiccups), chest and abdominal distension and pain, and renal deficiency with qi reversal and asthma.
The adverse effects of Shen Xiang are not clear. Shenxiang warms kidney yang, and should not be used by people with yin deficiency and fire exuberance, or those with qi deficiency and subsidence. Shen Xiang is contraindicated for those with a history of allergy to Shen Xiang.
If medication is required, please use under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.