How can agarwood essential oil be assessed for quality, and who should not use it?

How can agarwood essential oil be assessed for quality? Who should not use agarwood essential oil? Want to know? Let's take a look. That way you can buy good agarwood essential oil, and the misuse of agarwood essential oil can also be avoided.

How to assess the quality of agarwood essential oil:

1. When you hold a kind of essential oil, first shake the liquid inside; the faster the foam spreads, the better. If it contains chemical ingredients or is impure essential oil, the foam spreads slowly or even does not disperse for a long time.

2. Pour out a little essential oil and rub it between your fingers. Good essential oil becomes more astringent the more you rub, while poor essential oil becomes more slippery the more you rub, except for low-grade essential oils. (So-called low-grade essential oils are essential oils extracted from the trunk or heartwood of plants; because they contain resin components, they become more slippery the more you rub. For example: sandalwood, frankincense and myrrh all belong to low-grade essential oils.)

3. You can drip one drop onto paper and observe the spreading speed. Good oil spreads slowly, and poor oil spreads quickly.

4. Rotate the bottle back and forth. If grease is left attached, it is poor quality.

5. Check whether there is sediment at the bottom of the bottle. If there is sediment, it is definitely poor quality.

6. You can also take it home and use an aroma lamp. Pour water and essential oil into the aroma burner and burn it dry. If there is oil or a white substance inside the aroma burner, it is poor quality, and the presence of oil is also except for low-grade essential oils. The presence of a white substance is because the essential oil contains chemical ingredients, so it is not pure essential oil. In view of this, when choosing an aroma lamp, you should also be careful and not choose a poor-quality one, otherwise you cannot identify whether the essential oil is good or bad.

Who should not use agarwood essential oil:

1. People with internal heat and dryness and pregnant women: Since agarwood is called "chenxiang", pharmacologically it has a blood pressure-lowering effect, so people whose blood pressure is already relatively low are not suitable for drinking agarwood tea for a long time, and pregnant women should also drink and use it with caution. Also, because agarwood is relatively strong in medicinal action, people with internal heat and dryness will become more prone to heat after taking it, and it will especially worsen the symptoms of people with colds.

2. People with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire: Agarwood is mainly used for people with deficiency-cold patterns. "Ben Cao Cong Xin" mentions: "Those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire should never let it touch their lips." People with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire must never use agarwood.

3. People with qi deficiency and sinking: Agarwood has the effect of warming the kidney and grasping qi. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" mentions: "People with qi deficiency and sinking must not take much." People with qi deficiency and sinking must absolutely not take it.