Can wild agarwood be used as incense?

The wild trees of Aquilaria sinensis once flourished for hundreds of miles, but "often one tenth" can make incense. Most of the trees of Aquilaria sinensis can grow into towering trees, but it is no longer news not to make incense. In order to make agarwood grow from agarwood, it is necessary to withstand lightning, wind bending, insect erosion and various man-made injuries, or under the guidance of professional technology, use artificial incense to make it fragrant quickly after being injured.

In natural agarwood trees, only a few people will produce agarwood resin, and the usual view is injury; For example, after rats eat insects, germs erode, typhoons break and artificial logging, agarwood will secrete special resin to protect itself due to its own healing mechanism. Through accidental factors such as injury, some external substances participated in the metabolism of Aquilaria sinensis, which led to the abnormal enzyme transformation of Aquilaria sinensis core and the production of Aquilaria sinensis resin. At present, the technology of artificial induction is basically based on the above mechanism or theory. The probability that wild Aquilaria sinensis can make incense naturally is very low, probably less than 1%. Even if trees have naturally become fragrant for decades, they are locally distributed and the output is limited. Therefore, with the intervention of appropriate artificial perfuming techniques and methods, large-scale perfuming can be achieved. For example, the prevailing perfuming bacteria liquid is used for whole body incense. Generally, it can be dyed in a week after infusion, and it will be fragrant after one month, and it will be fragrant for half a year. You can harvest agarwood products in one year, and the natural quality is close to two years. The quality of agarwood can be submerged or semi-submerged for 3-5 years. The economic benefit is 10 times or even dozens of times higher than that of simply selling trees. Teacher Tang, Research Office of Aquilaria Resinatum and Fragrant Fragrance, Teaching Practice Base of Forestry College of Guangxi University. At present, the trees that can bear agarwood are mainly several agarwood of Daphne family. In addition to the well-known Aquilaria sinensis, there are generally the following kinds: Wanxiang tree.

Guanxiangshu is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Guizhou and Yunnan. In the Song Dynasty, Vientiane tree was widely planted in Dongguan and became a local specialty. Therefore, Aquilaria sinensis, also known as "Wanxiang", is the only tree named after Dongguan in China. The agarwood produced by Guanxiang Tree is smokeless and fragrant when burned. It can be used as a reward or as a sacrifice to the gods. It has the function of eliminating dampness and avoiding filth, and has been welcomed by the public for hundreds of years.