The aroma of incense heals mental pain, gives a person a sense of peace and security. Frankincense also inhibits the growth of microbes in the air, in water and, most importantly, in the body! What is the secret of this substance?
Benefits of Frankincense
The Bible indicates a recipe for how to prepare fragrant incense and how to use it: “And the Lord said to Moses:“Take for yourself some fragrant substances: stakti, onikha, halvana fragrant and pure Lebanon, all equally. And make them the art of making a smoking composition, worn out, clean, holy."
Pure Lebanon is frankincense, the resin of a very rare Boswellia tree native to Arabia. Stakti is a myrrh made from styrax wood (myrrh).
Fragrant halvan are solidified granules of milky juice from a plant of the umbrella family, which has analgesic, antispasmodic and diuretic properties. Onycha is nothing more than a shell valve of a special type of mollusk that lives in the Red Sea. Powdered, they have been used in medicine since antiquity.
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By bringing these components together, scientists tried to establish the properties of true biblical incense. The result amazed them: incense turned out to be the most powerful immunostimulant!
So it turns out that when the priests fumigated the sick with incense, the smoke, personifying the forces of light, filled the space of the room. In a medical sense, it killed viruses and disease-causing bacteria.
The smallest particles, getting into the body through the lungs, have an incredible healing effect! Frankincense smoke contains substances that fight stress, help cope with nervous exhaustion, panic attacks and insomnia.
Frankincense aroma strengthens memory. In the Middle Ages, the Armenian physician Amirdovlat Amasiatsi wrote: "With its hot and dry nature, incense strengthens the mind and heals forgetfulness." The Taoists recommended incense as a life-prolonging agent.
In Russia, in monasteries to strengthen health, since ancient times they drank water infused with incense. Fumigating incense, they treated the sick, possessed by demons. After all, incense, like 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.