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Cardio protective Properties of Agrawood (Kynam, from Vietnam)
The cardio-protective properties of Agarwood(particularly Kynam)
had been recorded in chinese medical literature for many centuries,
with written accounts from many historical chinese physicians.
In the traditional Chinese/Han medicine that Japan practices, there
is a fabled 速效救心丹 (cardiac rescue pill) that uses kynam as one of
its key ingredients. Traditional chinese medicine users in Hainan
have also spoken about family heirlooms, kynam pieces that were
passed on for generations and could be used repeatedly to make
therapeutic brews by immersion in hot water, a remedy good for
digestive problems, cardio related chest pains (心绞痛) and many other
ailments.
With prohibitive prices and scarcity of kynam today, apart from the
countless fakes on the MARKET, regular agarwood is often used in
place of kynam in most medications. However, due to differences in
medical effects between kynam and regular agarwood, the medicinal
blend with regular agarwood is not as rapid nor intense, as such,
are usually sold as cardio tonifying pills than a cardiac-rescue
medication, which are still excellent medications.
Modern scientific research has caught up on this just fairly
recently. Just last year, a Thai research group presented
cardio-protective evidences of Aquilaria Crassna extracts, in
preventing actin depolymerizations during ischemia. Aquilaria
Crassna is currently hypothesized to be one of the main species
from which Kynam can be found (albeit with a 1% probability,
personal communication, Prof Dinh Xuan Ba, Secoin). So as not to
bore others with complex biology, its sufficient to know that actin
polymers/fibres is responsible for force generation with myosin and
other proteins, it forms some type of scaffolding as well in
cardiac muscle cells. Upon ischemia, oxygen deprivation causes
cellular energy to plummet, and actin, being an ATP (energy)
dependent polymer will end up depolymerizing, causing the fibres to
fall apart. This is catastrophic as the cell will lose its function
in force generation! The ability of A. Crassna extract to stabilize
actin polymers can be extremely therapeutic.
On this topic, a friend researching on horny goat weed, a
chinese herb that nourishes the kidney and acts as an aphrodisiac,
through genetic sequencing had shown that more than *8 different
species of herbs are sold under the moniker of horny goat weed.
This highlights a potential short coming of the historical Chinese
Compedium of Herbs that many incense hobbyists have been referring
to. I have had met several agarwood shop owners that swore by Li
Shi Zhen (Ming Dynasty)s Chinese Compendium of Herbs (本草纲目 ), using
the descriptions to judge, verify and qualify agarwood. Im in a
certain disagreement with this approach due to speciation and
locality differences that can change a herbs therapeutic
properties. As an example, the compendium simply records sandalwood
as a single entry, ignoring the fact that there are over ten
species of sandalwood, each with different scent profiles. Mysore
sandalwood is light bitter, rich creamy sweet with a strong cooling
touch, Australian and Indonesian Sandalwoods having spicy and sour
notes without any cooling notes at all etc. These obvious
differences were not accounted for in such compendiums.
The issue is more complicated with agarwood, as even at the very
basic level, there can be four to five different taste
classifications based on locality and speciation, age, resination
mechanism etc, not to even go into the hundreds of different scents
that different agarwoods can present.
So food for thought again, if you look at the Japanese, why do they
use Kyara/Kynam for a cardiac medicine? Apart from the volatile
nature and excellent Qi moving (行气), clearing obstruction (通窍)
properties of Kynam, the standard kynam that the Japanese use has a
clear bitter taste in the Rikkoku, and in TCM, Bitter tastes goes
to the heart. If one desires to make a good tonifying medication
for the heart, a careful selection of Bitter type agarwood would be
the right choice, not just any simple agarwood.
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Malaysia |
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FOB Price: |
70 ~ 75 / Box (Negotiable)
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70 per Box |
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1 Box |
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9 box Packaging per bulk order |
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2 week after payment received |
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100 Box per Month |
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Kynam
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