The fragrance of incense treats mental pain, gives a person a sense of calm and security. And incense suppresses the reproduction of microbes in the air, in water and, most importantly, in the body! What is the secret of this substance?
Useful properties of incense
The Bible provides a recipe for how to make incense smoke and how to use it: "And the Lord said to Moses:" Take for yourself fragrant substances: stakti, onih, halvah of fragrant and pure Lebanon, in equal parts. And make from them the art of the make-up of a smoking compound, worn out, clean, holy. "
Pure Lebanon - this is the incense, the resin of the very rare Boswellia tree that grows in Arabia. Stakti is myrrh from a styrax tree (myrrh).
Halvah fragrant is a frozen granule of milky juice from a plant of the umbellate family, which has analgesic, spasmolytic and diuretic properties. Oniha is nothing other than a shell shell of a special kind of mollusk that lives in the Red Sea. Torn to powder, they have been used in medicine since ancient times.
By gathering together these components, the scientists tried to establish the properties of true biblical incense. The result amazed them: incense proved to be the most powerful immunostimulant!
So it turns out that when the clergy fumigated the sick with incense, the smoke, personifying the light forces, filled the space of the room. In the medical sense, it killed viruses and pathogenic bacteria.
The smallest particles, getting through the lungs into the body, have an incredible healing effect! In the smoke of incense contains substances that overcome stress, help cope with nervous exhaustion, panic attacks and insomnia.
The fragrance of incense strengthens memory. In the Middle Ages, Armenian doctor Amirdovlat Amasiatsi wrote: "With its hot and dry nature, incense strengthens the mind and heals forgetfulness." Taoists recommended incense as a means of prolonging life.
In Russia, in monasteries for the strengthening of health since ancient times, they drank water infused on incense. Smelling incense, they treated the sick, possessed by demons. After all, incense, as well as prayer, is more a medicine for the soul than for the body. The resin at high temperatures releases biocatalysts that facilitate the expansion of consciousness.
Very interesting....thanks. I love incense and I am now starting to take incense-making as a hobby.