Incense sandalwood are traditional Chinese medicine, in the source of medicinal herbs, flavor attributed to the meridian, efficacy, treatment and other aspects are different.
1. Source of medicinal materials: incense for the Ruixiang family incense plant incense and white wood incense containing resin wood; sandalwood for the sandalwood family sandalwood plant sandalwood trunk of dry heart material.
2. Taste and flavor: incense flavor pungent, bitter, slightly warm, to the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian; sandalwood flavor pungent, warm, to the spleen, stomach, heart, lung meridian.
3. Efficacy: incense has the effect of promoting qi and relieving pain (through regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), warming the stomach to stop vomiting (by warming the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold), naturing the qi and calming the wheezing (astringing the qi to alleviate coughing and wheezing); sandalwood has the effect of promoting qi and warming the middle and opening up the stomach and relieving pain.
4. Treatment: incense is mainly used for the treatment of cold stagnation caused by stomach cold vomiting, chest and abdominal distension and pain; sandalwood is mainly used for the treatment of cold stagnation, gastric cold pain, vomiting and eating less, chest and abdominal cold pain, chest paralysis (chest pain) and other evidence of heart pain.
Sandalwood is not recommended to be used in cases of yin deficiency and fire or qi deficiency and subsidence. If you have any related symptoms, it is recommended that you seek medical advice and follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.