Xi'an News Network News "To explore the characteristic health plants of our Qinling Mountains, inherit and innovate from the production of raw materials and formulas and use of incense, we are developing and excavating the disease prevention and medical effects of aromatherapy." On April 20, Li Quan, the head of Fenghui Xiangpin Culture Co., Ltd. in Chang'an District, Xi'an, said.
The art of making incense is the intangible cultural heritage of Xi'an
"I have been engaged in the incense industry for more than 20 years, and every time I go abroad or go abroad, I habitually study local spice products, hoping to inherit them through continuous innovation." Li Quan said. The factory's production workshop is full of aroma, and there are more than 30 kinds of Chinese herbal raw materials for the production of various incense, and the processing process and scale are like the processing workshop of a small proprietary Chinese medicine pharmaceutical factory. Li Quan introduced that only the "Qinling Chinese Yew - Floral Fragrance Series" of incense product types have rose flower type, rose flower type, jasmine flower type, deliberate grass type, osmanthus type, orchid type, etc., with rich varieties, nearly 100 kinds, which have different effects due to the different formulas of plant flowers and Chinese herbal medicines used.
The picture shows Li Quan introducing innovative incense products and incense culture
Xi'an News Network News Shaanxi has a deep historical and cultural heritage, and incense is a very popular activity in ancient times, especially in the life of the aristocratic class and literati inkers, which is extremely widely used, and it is an essential daily necessity for their home health and cultivation of sentiments. Li Quan said that the raw materials of fragrance-like products are natural spices and Chinese herbal medicines, which can be subdivided into different types according to different effects, and each fragrance has a corresponding specific formula and production process. Li Quan introduced that Shaanxi, as the origin of Taoist culture, the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan and the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, Xi'an, has a profound historical and cultural heritage, and incense is a very popular activity in ancient times, especially in the life of the aristocratic class and literati inkers, which is extremely widely used, and is an indispensable daily necessity for their home health and cultivation of sentiments.
Xi'an Chang'an Fenghui Xiangpin Culture Co., Ltd., which Li Quan is responsible for, is a private enterprise established in the late 1990s and has a history of more than 20 years, and its handmade traditional Chang'an incense skills have been included in the intangible cultural heritage of Xi'an.
Combined with traditional Chinese medicine to develop wormwood fragrance
Li Quan took out the newly developed wormwood incense to show the reporter, bitter incense, she said, wormwood insect repellent everyone knows, our incense uses our Qinling wormwood, the effect is very good. The Chinese nation has flourished for 5,000 years, and after countless wars and epidemics, it still stands in the largest population country on the earth. Today, when we explore the culture and etiquette of incense burning when the ancestors offered sacrifices to the gods, we should eliminate the dregs and study and excavate its health and disease removal effects.
The medical effect of spices has been around for a long time, Li Quan introduced, as early as the Han Dynasty, the famous doctor Hua Tuo used cloves, hundreds of drugs to make sachets, hanging in the living room, used to prevent "corpse disease", that is, tuberculosis. Some spices are important medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, and there are records of spices in many medical books. The Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records the use of "incense" into medicine. The book says: "There are many ways for people to combine incense today, but incense can be used in sores." Its material is not equal to the addition and subtraction, mostly using baizhi, duhuo, gansong and the like, for the end, with elm skin noodles as a paste and agent. Li Shizhen used incense to "smoke all the sores", the method is to light the lamp in the bucket, burn the incense and swallow it with nasal smoking. In addition, it can also be "taken internally to detoxify, and the sores are dry". There is also the "Tibetan Incense Fang" specially made by Cao Fu attached to the famous Qing Dynasty physician Zhao Xuemin's "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is made of more than 20 fragrant Chinese medicines such as agarwood, sandalwood and wood incense, and then mixed with elm noodles, fire salt, and old alcohol wine to make incense cakes. Zhao said that Tibetan incense has the effect of health care such as switching tips, acne rash, curing malaria, promoting production, and curing qi constipation, and its words are true. Because the raw materials used to make Tibetan incense are themselves some aromatic plant Traditional Chinese medicine, the smell produced after its combustion is used to remove filth and sterilize, dispel diseases and maintain health.
"And the health and disease-free fragrances we are developing focus on the formula, materials and production process, as for the appearance can be diverse, according to the current environmental protection, especially the air quality index requirements for experiments and research and development, and consider the current market consumption concept for design appearance, decoration." Li Quan said. In the next step, the company will cooperate with traditional Chinese medicine research and development institutions to introduce clinical trials and statistical analysis of data to develop more new products for medical fragrances. (Text/Tuxian Newspaper All-Media Reporter Zhang Xiao Intern Liu Hazel)
