Hexiang is like a combination of medicine, the incense formula and the medical prescription are the same origin, and the hexiang incense formula is influenced by the doctor's combination of medicine in terms of concept and preparation.
Ancient physicians often recorded the popular incense recipes in the books when compiling medical books.
The earliest incense recipes were found in medical books, mostly incense recipes with smoking clothes and deodorant effects, and also had the effect of preventing insects and purifying the air.
Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has "Six Flavors of Smoked Clothes And Fragrant Fangs" in his "Elbow Rear Emergency Fang"; in the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Wing Fang" and "Qianjin Moon Order", the incense parties of smoked clothes and incense bodies are recorded.
Tulip incense: cloves one or two, alfalfa incense two two, sweet rosin, thatch incense three two each, herbs, Lingling incense four two, right six flavors, each pound, plus zelan leaves four two, coarse sieve for it, extremely beautiful.
During the Han and Tang dynasties, the incense used by the royal family was a secret recipe that was not passed down, representing the exclusive smell of the royal family. Although the palace explicitly did not allow it to be passed on, the imperial doctor in charge of making incense still introduced the incense in the palace to the people. Wang Jian sometimes wrote:
For the royal incense party to add and reduce the frequency, the water Shenshan musk every time new.
It is not allowed to be passed on inside, and it has been written by the doctor.
Before the Song Dynasty, the incense parties recorded in the medical books were all smoked incense and incense body, and in the Song Dynasty, the incense parties recorded in the medical books were more diverse.
In the official medical books published in the Song Dynasty, the Tenth Volume of the Taiping and Pharmacy Bureau Fangs ,"Zhu Xiang" contains incense sticks such as Fenji incense, Ya incense, descending incense, and Qingyuan incense that are burned in the living room hall.
Ya Xiang: Jia Xiang, Shen Xiang (剉), Zhi Xiang (剉) 6 two each, brain (research), musk (research), each nine two, tooth salt incense research twelve two, sandalwood (剉) two pounds, Lacha stir-fried. The right is the end, into the study of medicine, with honey search and ling even, as usual burned.
Ya xiang, also known as tooth incense, has appeared at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, ya incense was mostly burned in the palace, study, monastery and yamen, and was one of the more popular incense recipes in the literati class of the Song Dynasty.
Su Shi's "Book to Sun Shujing" wrote: "Today, at Shu jing's house, I drank official wine, cooked tuan tea, burned incense, and used Zhuge Pen to return to the north for happy events."
There are many incense parties, and there are fifteen incense parties named Yaxiang in the Song Dynasty 'Chen Xiang Genealogy'. The top product in the incense was mixed with the more expensive rose water (rose perfume) at that time, and the Song People Mao Huan's "Butterfly Loves Flowers" words:
No rain, no sunny autumn smell. Alcohol illness autumn nostalgia, do not do wake up. The first change of jacket surrounds the quilt. Rose hydration is fragrant.
The "New Book of Shouqin Pension" in the Song and Yuan Dynasties takes the health of the elderly as the theme. The book consists of four volumes, the first volume is written by the Song Dynasty Chen Zhi, and the last three volumes are supplemented by the Yuanren Zou Xuan.
Zou Xuan's supplement is quite extensive, in addition to introducing a variety of health, nourishment and curative prescriptions, but also discusses tea, wine, incense, painting, violin and other methods.
In the content added by The Yuanren Zou Xuan, it is recorded that the descending incense, snow plum incense, Jiang Mei incense, hundred flowers incense, Changchun incense, Royal Love Four and Incense, should be the more popular incense recipes of the Yuan Dynasty.
Xuemeixiang, together with Jiangmeixiang, Hundred Flowers and Evergreen Incense, is called "Four Pins of Strange Fragrance". These four incense cubes all describe the composition, dosage, preparation method and odor characteristics of the incense in the form of song recipes. Changchun Xiang Song:
Two or two notes of incense, three or two sandalwood, musk brain a dollar wide.
Huatang quiet place furnace smoke, clear rhyme Changchun Sai Hui lan.
Judging from the song recipe, the composition of periwinkle incense is mainly incense (agarwood), sandalwood, musk, and dragon brain. Suitable for use in the halls of the home, the aroma is more elegant and distant than real orchids.
The Ming Dynasty Xu Chunfu's "Encyclopedia of Ancient and Modern Medical Unification" is a comprehensive medical work. In volume 98, "General Directions", it is recorded that the dragon hanging incense cake, fan incense, benzoin incense, and hexiang (Nanjing Huihui fang) and other incense parties are recorded.
Dragon hanging incense cake ingredients: sandalwood, agarwood each two pounds, row grass one pound, frankincense, wood incense, cloves, orchid moss each four two, yellow smoke six two, musk eight dollars, charcoal half a pound, ghee oil twelve two, olive oil six pounds, honey six pounds, shanghe faru.
This side is the fragrant cake party. In the Ming Dynasty, the common dragon hanging incense resembled incense, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" mentioned the dragon hanging incense: "The incense of the line, into a line like a line also." Or coiled into a glyph, suspended with iron and copper wire, the name of the dragon hanging incense.'
Dragon hanging incense is divided into two kinds of yellow and black, the price of black dragon hanging incense is relatively high, Tu Long's "Examination Plate Yushi" carries dragon hanging incense "the black one is high, but the inner house is better". In the incense book "New Spectrum of Incense Hunting", it is recorded that there are two incense parties of yellow dragon hanging incense and black dragon hanging incense.
In the Ming Dynasty Wang Dalun's "Infant and Child Class Collection", a piece of incense is also recorded, which is similar to the Hexiang Fang (Nanjing Hui huifang) in the "Ancient and Modern Medical Integration Encyclopedia", which is a more typical Hexiang group in the Ming Dynasty.
Hexiang Fang: one pound of row grass, four pounds of gansong, half a pound of Guangling incense, four two of herbs, one or two of cloves, two or two of wood incense, four two of sandalwood, four two of lychee core (no charcoal can also be used), a little of qingdai, musk how much musk is added at will, grinded for the end, porcelain jar storage.
This incense is the incense party, which is one of the more popular ways of burning incense in the ancients. To burn incense, a hollowed-out mold is used to press the incense powder into a pattern of continuous pen, which requires meditation and slow playing, which is suitable for tuning.
Ancient physicians not only collected incense notes into books, but also created their own incense recipes, and recorded in the "XiangCheng" a song "Yang JiLong Saliva" prepared by Yang Jilao, a famous northern Song Dynasty doctor, who paid more attention to the concoction and kilning of incense medicines.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, burning incense is also a kind of healing method to inhibit mold and exorcise filth.
Due to the different flavors of the raw materials used, the incense produced also has different functions of different qualities, or detoxification and insect repellent, or antiseptic and mildew removal, or spleen analgesia.
In medical books, there are often incense recipes to ward off evil spirits, and the Ming Dynasty Wang Kentang's "Criterion for the Treatment of Juvenile Sciences" contains: "To dispel the incense, one pound of Cangshu, half a pound of rhubarb, right fine twist, set fire to burn it". In the Qing Dynasty's "Ancient Fang Huijing", there is a "plague removal god fang" that can be worn and burned:
Frankincense, Cangshu, Fine Spice, Sichuan Root, Licorice, Descending Fragrance, Sandalwood one or two each, and studied a fine powder. Jujube meat for pills. It's big. Sun-dried pei to ward off the plague, burn the plague to ward off the filth.
The incense book "XiangCheng" also records that there are incense recipes with healing effects such as "Qing Filth Incense" and "Qing Zhen Xiang" to ward off evil and impurities; "Qing Shen Wet Incense" to cure head winds, and "Nan Fan Ambergris" to cure heartache.