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	Agarwood Oil
		Agarwood is the most rare and precious wood on the planet, prized for its rich, wonderful and healing fragrance.
		Agarwood has also been used in nearly every religious tradition around the world and revered for thousands of years by many cultures as the most treasured incense ingredient.
		Agarwoods ability to invoke a deep sense of relaxation makes it extremely useful in any aromatherapy session, but is especially effective where anxiety and depression are present.
	www.kacha-stones.com /agarwood_oil.htm (953 words)

	Agarwood, Incense, Aromatherapy : Scented Mountain - Cultivated agarwood products
		Agarwood, also called aloeswood (in religious texts), gaharu (in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea), jin-koh (in Japan), Ch´en Hsiang or Ch´en Xiang (in China), Chim-Hyuang (in Korea) and oud (in the Middle East), is a resin produced inside a tropical rainforest tree called Aquilaria.
		Agarwood was traded from Asia to the Middle East in ancient times and its long history of use is cited in the bible and other early religious texts.
		Many other agarwood incense products offered for sale are fake substitutes containing a blend of other herbaceous materials and do not have the true fragrance of agarwood.
	www.scentedmountain.com (450 words)

	Agarwood - Thai Aromatics Co.,Ltd.
		Agarwood was grown by Agriculturist, not from the forest and
		Agarwood is one of the world’s most interesting herbal plants and is ordered from every part of the world. It has been traded and highly appreciated for thousands of years. Nowadays, it is increasingly smuggled to more and more countries.
		Agarwood is the resinous wood from the Aquilaria tree. Resinous wood is used as incense, for medical purposes and pure resin in distilled form is used as perfume component.
	www.agarwoods.com /index.html (373 words)

	agarwood production in Aquilaria, oud, jinkoh, gaharu, aloeswood, eaglewood, chim-hyang,
		Agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, jinkoh, gaharu are names for the world’s most valuable incense.
		Agarwood is a high value forest product that is easy to store and ship.
		The world's first cultivated agarwood produced using our technology by farmers in Vietnam is now available and can be purchased from distributers and from the internet.
	forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu /agarwood.htm (623 words)

	The world's FIRST cultivated agarwood incense brought to you from Essence of the Ages
		Incense sticks made from agarwood with increased amounts of aromatic resin.
		Sticks made from wood with increased concentrations of resin produces finer incense with greater agarwood fragrance.
		Incense sticks made from select agarwood with the highest concentration of aromatic resin available.
	www.essenceoftheages.com /smtn/sm1.html (710 words)

	agarwood production in Aquilaria, oud, jinkoh, gaharu, aloeswood, eaglewood, chim-hyang,
		Despite these efforts agarwood products from illegally cut trees continues to be sold and unknowing consumers create a demand that helps to destroy the last old growth Aquilaria trees in existence.
		Agarwood is a high value forest product that is easy to store and ship.
		Incense made from cultivated agarwood using our technology is providing a new economy to poor rural farmers.
	forestpathology.coafes.umn.edu /agarwood.htm (623 words)

	Agarwood - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agarwood is a resin inpregnated wood of the Aquilaria tree that grow predominately in Southeast Asia, particularly in the rain forests of Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia.
		Formation of Agarwood is commonly seen in the heartwood and roots of trees that have been infected by a fungus.
		Agarwood is used in Arabic countries (especially in the Persian Gulf) as incense.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Agarwood (380 words)

	Agarwood Facts - Pure Incense and Oil
		Agarwood is a mystical resin which is used for meditation unlocking the subconscious and balancing the life airs or chi.
		The Sufis use Agarwood oil in their esoteric ceremonies and Japanese Shamans use it for its psychoactive properties.It enchances mental clarity and opens the third eye as well as all of the upper charkas.
		Agarwood is the resinous wood from the Aquilaria tree, an archaic tropical evergreen tree native to northern India, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Southern China and Vietnam.
	www.pure-incense.com /Agarwood-incense-facts.html (1218 words)

	Klub Hanoi - Aquilárie a agarwood
		Agarwood pomáhá při léčbě žloutenky a cirhózy jater, žaludečních vředů, snížení žaludku, ale i žaludečních nevolnostech, zvracení, zácpě a škytavce.
		Agarwood vzniká jako reakce na přítomnost patogenního druhu houby uvnitř kmene aquilárie.
		Ohromnou výhodou je možnost pěstovat aquilárie a umělou infekcí zajistit produkci agarwood.
	www.klubhanoi.cz /view.php?cisloclanku=2005070101 (1107 words)

	Agarwood- Gem of Truth by Trygve Harris
		Here is a fairly undeniable truth: Agarwood, both the oil and the wood, come from 2 or 3 species of Aquilaria tree which grows, or grew, from the states of Eastern India through Burma, down through Bangladesh, Thailand, Indochina and along the Malay peninsula to Papua New Guinea and even Borneo.
		It is also a fact that the agarwood business involves vast amounts of money and involves a rare, beautiful and highly labor-intensive commodity that costs more than gold, and is infinitely more precious.
		The agarwood distiller pays taxes to harvest from a certain area of forest—the gatherers bring the wood to him where it is examined, and, if of suitable quality, bought.
	www.naha.org /articles/agarwood_article.htm (2105 words)

	Enfleurage - Agarwood: Is it endangered?
		Agarwood trees grow abundantly in Laos; they are found all over southeast Asia, with the highest quality of wood from the former countries of Indochina: Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
		Agarwood resin can riddle a tree throughout its heartwood, and when there is a lot of resin, the pieces are individually cleaned and sold as chips, in various grades.
		Appreciation of agarwood, and its use throughout the world, is a positive thing, as it's probably one of the only natural substances to really enjoy universal respect.
	www.enfleurage.com /ac-agarwood-2.html (2695 words)

	Agarwood CO2 Extract, Oud, Wholesale Agarwood Oil - Eden Botanicals
		Agarwood oil, also known as Oud, Aloeswood, Eagleswood Ud, Kiara, etc., is an extremely rare and precious oil that originates in North Eastern India, Bhutan and parts of South East Asia, especially Vietnam and Cambodia.
		By purchasing agarwood oil from cultivated trees, we are not doing damage to the last remaining wild agarwood trees, nor to the forests in which the precious agarwood trees grow.
		Agarwood trees must be infected by a fungi, prior to producing an oleoresin which saturates the wood.
	www.edenbotanicals.com /about_agarwood.html (652 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Both agarwood and its resin distillate/extracts are known as Oud in Arabic (literally wood) and used to describe agarwood in nations and areas of Islamic faith.
		Agarwood is used in Arab countries (especially in the Persian Gulf) as incense.
		A natural perfume oil obtained by CO extraction from agarwood retains the odour of "true" agarwood: a cepes (mushroom) and carrot seed accord, which can be roughly approximated by combining ambergris, jasmine, earth and wood notes.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=agarwood (888 words)

	What is Agarwood? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many cultures prize agarwood, which isn't wood at all, as incense and perfume oil to use during religious ceremonies at temples and mosques.
		Unfortunately, the trees aren't valued for their prolific lumber, but rather the anomalous substance of agarwood that seems to arise as a result of an infection or genetic mutation.
		Agarwood, mostly from Vietnam, exported to other countries might find itself being burned as a medicinal smoke, wrapped with prayer shawls to scent them, or pressed to extract the potent oil.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-agarwood.htm (350 words)

	Organic Essential Oils, Absolutes, CO2 Extracts, Attars, Incense (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The agarwood pieces which are graded according to the saturation of the resin in the wood are works of art in themselves.
		The finest agarwood is very dense and fl, almost a solid mass but such type of oleoresin is not now to be found.
		After this illuminating visit to the distillery for the oleoresin of cultivated agarwood trees, we moved further into the countryside to the distillery for the oleoresin of wild harvested trees.
	www.whitelotusaromatics.com /newsletters/agarwood3.html (5334 words)

	CAAM \| Education \| "The Pharmacy of Flowers" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agarwood is an excellent example of an endangered tree that has tremendous potential for creating economically sustainable tropical agro-forests.
		These projects have found that agarwood plantations can be successfully developed as an agro-forestry enterprise, and that agar trees can be induced to produce resin nearly ten times faster than in nature.
		Development of agarwood plantations is an ideal way of generating income and employment for low-income families living in and around project areas, as there is a long-term market for a wide range of agarwood products with rising demand and a rapidly diminishing supply.
	www.ayurveda-caam.org /education/crow_flowers7.html (316 words)

	WildAid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agarwood, an aromatic resinous wood heavily poached in all of its range states, received strong support today for its future protection through the listing of all Aquilaria and Gyrinops species under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), as proposed by Indonesia.
		These illegal agarwood collectors use their time in the forest to lay traps and snares that indiscriminately kill all varieties of wildlife.
		Although domestic laws in many countries protect agarwood stocks from their own nations, agarwood is broken down into chips and oil when it is sold.
	www.wildaid.org /index.asp?CID=73&PID=106&SUBID=&TERID=72 (355 words)

	White Lotus Aromatics Newsletters
		Maheshwari did his Phd on agarwood in the late 1960's and was the first person to properly identify several unique aromatic molecules found in agarwood.
		At that time true agarwood from Assam and the Northeast section of India was available in good quantity and since he was doing research at the highest level, he had no problem in procuring the finest resin available.
		Trees c 80 year old are known to be riches in their content of agarwood, varying from 6.9 kg to 9.0 kg per tree.
	members.aol.com /wlaromatics/29agarwood.html (981 words)

	Dispatches: Agarwood: Threatened multi-cultural resource?
		Agarwood is used in a variety of ways, including in traditional medicine systems such as Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Traditional East Asian medicine.
		Agarwood is traded in several raw forms including chips (the most common form of raw agarwood in trade), powder, timber pieces, and very occasionally, roots.
		The price of agarwood depends on a complex set of factors including country of origin and fragrance strength, but not the species that the agarwood is from.
	www.traffic.org /dispatches/archives/february2000/agarwood.html (824 words)

	Wood Used in Perfume And Incense Threatened
		Washington, DC - Agarwood, the fragrant heartwood produced by species of the Asian Aquilaria tree genus, may be over-exploited to commercial extinction due to over-harvesting and illegal trade.
		Agarwood is similar to mucus produced by humans in that both are natural byproducts of the healing process that begins when a foreign agent invades the organism," Robbins explained.
		"Agarwood is thought to produce a resin as a means to fight fungal infection or a response to wounding.
	www.ecoworld.com /Home/articles2.cfm?TID=135 (766 words)

	Induction of Sesquiterpenoid Production by Methyl Jasmonate in Aquilaria sinensis Cell Suspension Culture Journal of ...
		A large amount of agarwood is also consumed by distillation to obtain a fragrant oil, which is traditionally popular in the Middle East for blending with balm and perfume oil (1).
		Phytochemical studies of agarwood were mainly performed during the 1980s and 1990s and many compounds, including many sesquiterpene derivatives, were isolated and their structures were elucidated; however, agarwood contains numerous compounds and the composition of the wood varies so much that quite a few compounds remain unidentified (3-27).
		Sesquiterpenoids and phenylethyl chromone derivatives are the principal compounds in the oleoresin of agarwood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4091/is_200503/ai_n13505322 (679 words)

	Perfumery Raw Materials: Agarwood - learn where it comes from and how it is used (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agarwood is a resinous substance found in the heartwood and roots of fungus infected trees of certain species of the Aquilaria genus, a native of Southeast Asia.
		Governments currently attempt to control excessive harvesting of agarwood but, as it is generally produced in some of the world's poorest countries, there are tremendous incentives at all levels of harvesting and marketing to bypass these national and international controls or adulterate the product.
		Must agarwood is distilled under primitive conditions but due to its high value, distillation is in fact highly "quality controlled" to prevent economic loss.
	www.perfumeprojects.com /projects/agarwood.php (751 words)

	Non-Wood News 11
		Agarwood is a resinous substance occurring in trees of the genus Aquilaria (a member of the Thymelaeceae family), a fast-growing forest tree which can be found growing from the foothills of the Himalayas to the rain forests of Papua New Guinea.
		Agarwood has also been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years, and continues to be used in Ayurvedic, Tibetan and traditional East Asian medicine.
		Agarwood incense is burned to produce a pleasant scent, its use ranging from a general perfume to an element of important religious occasions.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/006/y5360e/y5360e02.htm (13420 words)

	WWF - Last frontier of agarwood under threat in Papua New Guinea
		Agarwood essences are used to fragrance soaps and shampoos, and the popularity of highly priced essential oils reinforces the value of agarwood derivatives.
		Agarwood is found naturally in only a small percentage of trees in the Thymeleaceae family - with the highest-grade "product" usually harvested from certain species in the Genus Aquilaria.
		External signs of agarwood are not obvious, which often leads to indiscriminate felling of trees in the search for darker wood inside.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=2405 (684 words)

	Radio Australia - Asia Pacific - Programs - PNG: Rare agarwood found in lowland forests (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agarwood - a substance formed in the centre of certain trees, used in traditional medicines, religious ceremonies, and valued for its unique perfume has been found in the lowland forests of PNG.
		Agarwood is described in ancient arabic texts - and in the old testament, King Solomon warned men to avoid beds containing its perfume - such a temptation could lead to illicit loves.
		One theory is that agarwood is formed as a resin to combat wounds or fungal infections in certain species of the Aquilaria tree.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/asiapac/programs/s378367.htm (779 words)

	Agarwood - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Agarwood is a type of wood found mostly in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia.
		Agarwood is a phenomenon seen in the heartwood and roots of the tree Aquilaria.
		It is known as Oud in Arabic which also refers to the oil distilled from Agarwood.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1393046 (152 words)

	Non-Wood Nwes No 9
		Agarwood incense is used in religious ceremonies by Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims, while a revival of the Koh doh incense ceremony in Japan has rekindled interest in agarwood in that country.
		Although research into the origins of agarwood is ongoing, it appears that the fragrant resin that permeates the heartwood of some Aquilaria trees is produced as a response to wounding and/or a fungal infection.
		It is this resinous wood, or "agarwood", that is sought, the non-impregnated wood being considered too soft to be useful for construction.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/Y3660e/y3660e04.htm (6483 words)

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