As soon as they call an eagle tree. In India, it is called agar, which means incense smoking. In Greece, it is a tree that tastes like aloe - bitter and astringent. This does not prevent the use of an eagle tree to change the taste of water. How does this happen? A piece of eagle tree can make sweet water out of bitter water. Not all types of aloe wood can produce incense. Only one that has been exposed to certain insects is suitable.
Description
The wood extracted from the very core of the eagle tree is heavy. Insects make holes in it. The tree secretes tar to heal the wound. Only in this way the birth of a real eagle tree takes place. Scarlet tree is considered truly valuable if it has holes. It is hunted by real hunters who go searching in the depths of the jungle.
From the very beginning, crafts and souvenirs were made from wood. Much later learned how to get incense.
The eagle tree grows in Bengal, Burma and Cambodia. It begins to fragrance only freshly cut. Fragrance fills the space around you. There are two types of wood: black and yellow. The leaves are variegated, bicolor, green and white. It blooms and exudes a wonderful aroma. The best option is ebony. It should sink in water, and when burned it emits odorous smoke. The best tree is an old one that has many growths. It is they who will exude incense.
An eagle tree should look like this: the color is dark blue (sometimes with yellowness), the hardness is stone, outwardly looks like a goat's horns.
How to get incense from an eagle tree?
Scarlet tree is often used for fumigation. There are several ways to get incense material. Initially, trees are cut down, stacked in piles and stored for many years. The trees rot, only the core remains untouched. Such wood is used to fumigate clothes and eliminate odors.
Rites and tree
There are legends telling about the origin and production of aloe tree. Trees grow in thickets over a mountain by the sea. Finding the right tree, they bury it, so that everything decays to the core.
The Muslim world used aloe in a wedding ceremony. The whole East used aloe for a pleasant aroma. In India, for example, the groom was wrapped in clothes that had previously been fumigated with the smoke of an eagle tree. In China, figures and boxes were made, which were covered with aloe powder. They exuded a pleasant aroma, and beetles that feed on wood did not start in such products.
Application
Many are talking about an eagle tree. Where does it grow? No one really knows. There is an assumption that it grows in the mountains of paradise. Trees break from the wind, fall and fall into the rivers into India. In some countries, incense derived from aloe tree had their days of the week. In Kuwait, in the houses of merchants, after the coffee they had drunk, a ritual of incense was followed. In Japan, special incense burners were made from fragrant wood. The interior was made of metal. When hot metal touched a tree, a pleasant aroma could be felt.
Use in Europe
In Europe, used aloe tree with completely different purposes. Locked rooms were fumigated for infectious diseases. Aloe was mixed with butter, lit and inhaled smoke in asthma. It was believed that this contributes to the healing of ulcers and wounds. The bandages used to bandage the wounds were fumigated with aloe smoke. Eagle tree has many useful properties: it makes the smell in the mouth pleasant, drives away fear, eliminates vomiting, has a positive effect on the teeth, brain and nerves. The aroma of aloe is stronger than other incense. Chinese medicine used aloe powder in the treatment of liver, lung, stomach and skin diseases. So we can say that this tree was used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Eagle tree. Where does it grow and how does it burn?
An interesting process of burning pieces of an eagle tree. They are set on fire, and the resin bubbles on the surface, a strong aroma arises, which makes clear vision and bright consciousness.
A large selection of scarlet wood is available at stores in Bombay. There are more than fifteen species. Aloe harvest is under state supervision. Where does the tree grow? It is known that not far from the Indian state of Gauhata there is a temple. Along with it, for more than two hundred years, there is a scarlet tree. It is under the protection of armed people.
Growing
They have already started selling eagle tree in the form of seedlings . How to grow it, many are interested. This process is lengthy - only children and grandchildren can use wood.
Scarlet tree has many other names: agar, eagle or paradise tree, pun.
It acquires its value as follows. For decades, creating protection against wood fungi, the tree in its roots and core produces aromatic resin. Then it gets dark, heavy and drowns in water. Such wood does not deteriorate, does not decompose. Aloe resin is more expensive than gold, it is also called "liquid gold".
The threat of extinction looms over the populations of the scarlet tree.
Facts
Interesting facts related to the aloe tree can be attributed to the following: the use of its aromatic resin in the eighth century AD in Japan at the court of the emperor. Then spent fumigation smoke samurai armor before the battle.
Aloe is a very expensive medicinal material. In the East, it is not just used as a smoking substance, it is widely used in religious rituals. The creators of beads, jewelry and furniture makers are happy to find the use of aromatic resin in their production. Avicenna used crushed aloe tree in the form of powder for the body. Such a powder prevented the appearance of lice on clothing. In one of the halls of the Hermitage dedicated to the art of China, there is a figurine representing the old spirit, dated to the seventeenth century. It still emits a pleasant aroma, as it is carved from aloe wood.
There is a version that the biblical paradise is the groves in which aloe trees grow. So, it turns out that the eagle trees were planted by the Lord himself.