What kind of agarwood is ant agarwood, and what is ant agarwood?

Live agarwood. It is a living tree that is cut down manually, and the xylem is eaten by termites after the land is found, and the remaining grease is the part.

There is a saying that ant sinking is a worm leak. Because the agarwood tree is infested by termites before it bears incense, the injured tree will secrete sap, which will mix with the secretion of the white stripe, so that this part of the tree will produce fungal infection and form incense. Because the incense knotted in this way is particularly fragrant, some people speculate that the real agarwood Qinan.

That is, the moth-eaten parts are buried and mellowed in the soil.

Therefore, a large agarwood pit is possible to have a little Qi Nan, while other parts are only incense and there is no Qi Nan. There are also people in the industry who believe that ant sinking belongs to live agarwood, so ant sinking is the best is ant sinking. The so-called ant sinking, in fact, is mostly not caused by ants, generally insects bite trees, even after the trees are cut down, they still have a certain vitality, secreting resin to heal wounds.

What it does:

1. Cure yin deficiency and kidney qi without returning to the original: agarwood grinding juice for a few minutes, with Mai Men Dong and Huai Shudi.

Three coins each, Poria cocos.

Yam and dogwood meat are two coins each, peony skin, Ze Yuan, and Guangchen peel.

One penny each. Fry in water, and serve with agarwood juice.

2. Treat long-term deficiency of the spleen and kidney, stop drinking water, and improve the lung meridian.

Cough and shortness of breath, abdominal distention, and unfavorable urination: one coin of agarwood, three coins of black medicine, half and two of Poria cocos, tangerine peel, Ze Yuan, and fragrant aconite, and musk.

Half a penny. The top is fine, and the refining honey and pills are as big as the sycamore. Per serving.

Twenty or thirty pills, cooked underwater.

Ant Shen, basically friends who play agarwood should know, from the name of the understanding, it is because of the agarwood that is fragrant after being eaten by ants. But in fact, most of the ant sinking is not fragrant after being eaten by ants. To be precise, as long as the agarwood that is eaten by insects and ants causes incense, it is called ant sinking.

There are all kinds of handicrafts and collections of small-leaved red sandalwood, huanghuali and agarwood, and interested friends can go to see it.

Narrow sense: After the agarwood that has formed incense has been cut down artificially or fallen to the ground naturally, termites have eaten the agarwood tree (the part that does not contain oil), and the remaining part containing oil is called "ant sinking", that is to say, before the termite eats, the agarwood tree has already produced incense.

Broadly defined: Ant Shen not only represents the agarwood after being eaten by termites, but also other insects that like to eat agarwood, and the ant sink here is also called "insect eye" and "insect drain", of course, this is also one of the agarwood incense.

Insect drain, a kind of agarwood, refers to the white wood incense tree due to the insect moth, the oil secreted to naturally protect the injured parts, the insect moth-eaten parts are wrapped by the natural secretion of oil of agarwood, so the formation of agarwood is called "insect leakage", in the eyes of many people, all the agarwood formed by insects and ants can be called insect drain, in fact, insect drain is also known as insect carving, and ant hill is completely different.

Let's talk about the conceptual difference between the two.

Insect carving: In the ripening process of the formed agarwood, the wooden part without the incense knot is eaten by insects, and the incense part can be retained because it can repel insects, and the last thing that is formed is the insect leakage.

Anthill: The incense formation caused by the injury of the agarwood tree due to the gnawing of insects, this kind of agarwood is called an anthill.

Yazhou Chronicles" cloud: "Where the branches of fragrant wood are exposed, the wood is dead and the original is alive, and the temperament is warm, so it is the nest of the big ants." ”

The difference between taste: Strictly speaking, the difference between insect drain and ant hill in fragrance is like the difference between cooked fragrance and raw fragrance, but in fact, both in the process of incense, there are insects and ants involved, and under the action of metabolites and secretions produced by them, they have a chemical reaction with balsam, so in general, the incense with the participation of insects and ants has a clear sweet taste in its aroma, and the difference between the taste of cooked fragrance and raw incense is not very obvious.

The difference in shape: The difference between the insect drain and the anthill in appearance is very large.

Worm leak agarwood is usually small in size, although it is rare to see the quality of submersion, but there are also many high-quality qualities, which is the best material for incense.

If you encounter insects and ants digging trees in the agarwood tree to make a nest, and there is already a certain scale, then the agarwood produced in the future will become a spectacle after removing the excess white wood. This kind of natural strange wood may not be as rich as insect leakage, but it has a higher artistic appreciation value and is a good agarwood product worth collecting.

People who are first in contact with agarwood are often confused by a bunch of academic terms, which is better, water sinking, soil sinking, ant sinking, inverted frame, and live sinking? We are not engaged in academic research, and we should not be sloppy with these fancy details, as long as we grasp the fat content and fragrance of it. Suppose some people say that the water sink of the stove is the best, but the water sink material from different countries, the fat content and fragrance will be different, and even on the same piece of water sink spice, because the oil content of the head and tail is different or even the fragrance is different, the value of the head and tail is very different, can you say that the water sink must be better than the soil sinking, ant sinking, inverted frame, and live sinking?

At present, there is no clear product testing standard for agarwood in China (but Taiwan and Japan have this sock), like agarwood Buddha beads are light industry daily products, but the country's technical supervision and inspection agencies still cannot provide identification services. Because agarwood into medicine, can be used as a drug by the Food and Drug Administration (or the provincial pharmaceutical company) identification, the identification of two major items, the first to identify whether the wood molecular structure belongs to agarwood, and secondly, to identify whether its oil is imitation of agarwood resin, how much lipid content, the national pharmacopoeia for the inspection of agarwood stipulates that there is an alcohol-soluble extract shall not be less than 15, for example, China's Hainan agarwood black oil grid has been detected 35-38% of the fat content. From a medical point of view, the medicinal effect of agarwood comes from the oil, and the richer the oil, the higher the medicinal value.

At present, most of the counterfeits use gynostemma to soak synthetic flavors, and the pharmaceutical company can identify them. Of course, if you further ask to identify the fragrance type and origin of agarwood, they can't do it yet. In this way, it is necessary to judge from the experience of the master, who mainly identifies by burning and smelling incense, but occasionally it will slip through the eyes.

For beginners, what kind of agarwood is a good agarwood? The answer is that no matter what kind of agarwood you are, as long as the oil is good, the fragrance is good. If you are a master of the collection level, then you have to study it in depth, and the rare agarwood varieties on the market will have a large value-added space.