Steps for making incense

The steps of incense making are as follows:

1.Collecting raw materials: choose suitable natural plants, collect flowers, leaves, fruits and other raw materials, remove the impurities and excess parts, and keep the most essential parts.

2.Airing and drying: Airing and drying the collected raw materials for subsequent processing.

3, preparation of spices: according to the desired aroma and use, the various raw materials in a certain proportion together to form a spice formula.

4, making incense sticks: choose suitable wood, such as incense, sandalwood, etc., and make them into slender incense sticks.

5, pressing incense cake: grind the formulated spices into powder, add the binder and mix well, then press the mixture into incense cake.

6, cutting and packaging: the pressed scented cake is cut into certain size and packaged in wrapping paper or box to protect the incense.

Note:

The method of making incense by hand varies from region to region and from tradition to tradition, the above steps are for reference only.

Expanding knowledge:

Incense comes from nature, natural aromatic plants are full of vigor, her aroma along with the breath into the heart, the natural aroma components to produce a sense of pleasure. Aroma and smoke form, so that people relax physically and mentally, breathing y, the body hair pores open, and then produce a pleasant mind, comfort, peace, excitement and many other wonderful feelings.

Thread incense "as early as the Song and Ming Dynasties have appeared. Thread incense burning time is relatively long, so it is also known as "immortal incense" or "longevity incense", ancient times common temple to the length of incense as a unit of measurement of time. Therefore, it is also called "incense inch".

Currently on the market the length of incense size: 10.5cm short incense; 21cm standard length; 32cm above the homework incense; each length of burning time is based on the ingredients and the use of the environment to say, is not fixed, the short incense is generally burning length of 15 minutes or so, the 21cm standard length of burning length of 30 minutes or so; 32cm above the homework incense burning The length of time in about 90 minutes.

Chinese medicine since two thousand years ago, there is a combination of incense burning Zhuyi cure system, to a thousand years ago, there is a separate method of smoked incense, incense burning method, the majority of the incense side of health care.

Special incense incense and a lot of Chinese herbs, smelling line incense is best to use a closed space, which will improve the effect of natural incense, enhance your environmental atmosphere, incense that is a valuable Chinese medicine, so made of health care incense, such incense in the living room, bedroom, study and so on, all the need to purify the air of the place can be selected.