What is Agarwood Oil / Aloeswood Oil / Dehnul Oudh?

Agarwood chips

Agarwood Oil / Dehn Al Oudh is very popular amongst Arabs people especially Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar. It is also popular amongst Chinese, Indian, Taiwanese and Japanese. For western, it is something new to explore. 

Arabs use agarwood oil as a perfume and mix with other perfume oil to make an attar smell stronger. For Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese use agarwood oil for meditation, medication and aromatherapy.


Agarwood oil is known for bringing relaxation of the mind, warm the heart and calm the mind, it is a truly uplifting experience and open an avenue of peace and contentment.

　

The oil extracted from resinous heartwood that forms in Aquilaria trees (large evergreens native to Southeast Asia) when they become infected with a type of mold. The tree is attacked by fungus. Prior to infection, the heartwood is relatively light and pale coloured, however as the infection progresses, the tree produces a dark aromatic resin in response to the attack, which results in a very dense, dark, resin embedded heartwood. The resin embedded wood is commonly called gaharu, jinko, aloeswood, agarwood, or oud and is valued in many cultures for its distinctive fragrance, and thus is used for incense and perfumes.
　 It is recommended by experienced practitioners for providing motivation and devotion to meditation. It is supposed to facilitate communication with the transcendent, refreshes the mind and body, drives away evil spirits, takes away exhaustion, removes impurities, expels negative energies, brings alertness, calms the nervous system, relieves anxiety, invokes a sense of strength and peace, creating natural order in your sacred living areas, enhances cerebral functioning, remedies nervous disorders such as neurosis, obsessive behaviour and it is a companion in solitude. Chinese, Tibetan, Ayurvedic and Unanai physicians have all used Agarwood in their practice to treat various diseases as well as mental illness.

What is dehnul oudh / agarwood oil?

Practitioners Around the World

Aloeswood Medicinal UsesStimulant, tonic, nausea, nerves, regurgitation, weakness in the elderly, aphrodisiac, diuretic, relieves epilepsy, antimicrobial, carminative (gas), smallpox, rheumatism, illness during and after childbirth, relieves spasms in digestive and respiratory systems, shortness of breath, chills, general pains, lowers fever, asthma, cancer, colic, digestive and bronchial complaints, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, cirrhosis of the liver and as a director or focuser for other medicines. It has also been used as a treatment for lung and stomach tumours.