Introducing The Eastern Philosophy’s Five Element medical incense set! ☯️ The herbal recipe of each is formulated according to key traditional Chinese medicine and philosophical principles. / Each incense can be burned according to its properties and function, by time of day, or by its scent. Unlike most incense on the market, ours is made from pure herbs and contain no synthetic fragrances, additives, sawdust, or bamboo/charcoal core. / During the Han dynasty (200 BCE-200 CE), exploration and conquest westward led to the establishment of the Silk Road, through which several new aromatics were introduced to China, including dammar resin (龍腦香), pepper, agarwood, cloves, and storax balsam (蘇合香). This period marked the real birth of China’s burgeoning incense culture. At the Mawangdui excavation site which dates to the Han, incense sachets, incense pillows and incense burning pottery were discovered among the aristocratic tombs containing cinnamon, magnolia flower, sweet grass, Sichuan pepper and joe-pye weed. It is speculated that these aromatics were used to prevent disease, calm the spirit, and ward off evil. / Perhaps even more significantly, the late Han story collection Stories of Emperor Han Wudi, contains a description of the Han emperor burning incense to suppress a pandemic that raged throughout his kingdom. In another account of the medical use of incense in Chinese courts, a foreign envoy from Ruoshui presents the emperor with pellets of incense, which, at first glance, fail to impress due to their ordinariness. However, when the entire palace falls seriously ill for several days, the foreign envoy pleads for the incense to be burned: it successfully expelled the disease, curing everyone in the palace within the same day, and its aroma was so far-reaching that everyone inside the city could smell it for three months. . . .
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