Changzhou boxwood comb

Huangyang wood comb: Huangyang wood: since ancient times is the first choice for comb. According to the "compendium of materia medica" (wood 36 volumes): "the world heavy boxwood, to its fire", "the wood is tight and greasy, for comb, gouge, print the most good", "clearing heat, diuresis, detoxification". Modern medicine has found that it contains boxelin (CH18H21N03), which can inhibit the growth of fungi, so it has a better effect of stopping itching and removing dandruff after combing. (See Medical Herald 93-2).

The boxwood is a tropical, temperate more common evergreen plants, China's southeast coast, southwest, Taiwan are widely distributed. There are more than 100 species in 4 genera in the boxwood family. For evergreen shrubs or small trees (which is currently called the authentic boxwood), yellowish wood, tough texture, fine texture, moderate hardness, no brown eyes, long growth period, no big material, boxwood grows very slowly, winter flowering, spring to the knot, generally have to grow for four or five decades to grow to 3-5 meters high, less than 15 centimeters in diameter, so there are Therefore, it is said that "it is difficult to grow boxwood for thousands of years" and "it is difficult to make a beat for boxwood for thousands of years" (a kind of beat in musical instruments). Legend has it that the boxwood not only does not grow in leap years, but also shortens. Song Su Shi: " said, poplar a year long one inch, when the leap back three inches " so there is " thousand years short " said, with the age of the long, the wood color will be from light to dark, tend to date red. It is suitable for fine carving, simple and beautiful. Since ancient times, boxwood is the first choice for making combs. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica" (wood 36 volumes): "the world heavy boxwood, to its fire", "its wood tight and greasy, for comb, plucking, print the most good", "clearing heat, diuresis, detoxification". Modern medicine found that it contains boxelin (CH18H21N03), can inhibit the growth of fungi, so into the comb after the anti-itching dandruff effect is better. Poplar wood is also a medicinal wood, often combing will have a good health effect! Authentic boxwood comb from open material to the finished product, a comb needs to go through 28 procedures. One of the most elaborate carving, tracing, ironing, carving, grinding and other processes need to be completed by the traditional craft production methods. A whole material processed into the boxwood comb, the price from a dozen dollars (9 cm) to a few hundred dollars (20 cm) ranging from the development of the price is in accordance with the length of the comb as well as the processing of the required technology as a standard, and the number is also limited!