Male and Tram Huong

Ky Nam and Tram Huong are special products located in the core of Wind trees. In Cambodia, the Wind tree is named Can Krasna (Can, cannada: Tram, Krasna: dark). Perhaps that negative word has a scientific name in Latin.

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   Wind Tree (Photo: gpo.or.th)

   Scientific name: Aquilaria Crassna Pierre
2. Full name: Thymeleaceae
3. Ministry: Thyméales
4. Class: Gemini
5. Industry: Flower display (pumpkin)

Cay Gio is a species of wood that can be 40-50 meters high, gray shell with many fibers that can make paper, white soft wood. Hairless leaves have 15-18 ribbed pairs. The fruit is 4cm long.

The process of forming Tram Huong and Ky nam

Not all wind stems have Tram Huong and Ky nam. Only some wind trees have new diseases that contain Agar at the core of the stem. In this section, if we look carefully at the magnification of the magnifying glass, we see wood cells degenerating, deforming, losing wood, containing an aromatic resin (essential oil), turning into irregular shapes. , convex, with longitudinal grooves, clear, dark; it is the Southern States (Bois d'aloès). Around the period, the wood is also much less metamorphic, it is hair (because the word Cambodia is Tok); When burning Hair radiates a fragrance, often used to make incense so called Frankincense (Bois d'aigle).

Agarwood and Ky nam are all at the core of the wind because they accumulate more or less essential oil, so if not, it is easy to be confused when buying. Want to distinguish these two things we have to look carefully at their properties and taste: Ky Nam wood is heavy and pure, with enough spicy, sour, bitter, sweet and aromatic taste. It contains a lot of essential oils, so when it burns the green tops, the smoke goes up straight and high, hovering in the air for a long time.

Agarwood is lighter, spicy, slightly bitter, gentle aroma. When burning smoky Frankincense into a ring shape, then dissolve quickly in the air.

If you want to distinguish good male and bad, then you will see which types have fine finely, have a lot of essential oils, and any kind of solid and low oil is bad. People often pack Ky nam in banana leaves very tightly and then put them in the sun, bring them to the evening if there is a lot of oil flowing out. If you want to keep Ky nam good and long, you should wrap it in tin foil or put it in a box with a tight lid so that the essential oil will not evaporate or flow away.

Some people often get old Son Son wood (Exoecaria agallocha, Linné, belonging to Euphorbiaceae family) to sell fake Frankincense. In the old and very hard-growing Son La, it is reddish-brown, has black or gray spots, bitter taste, pleasant smell, so some Indian or Chinese people often burn to smell incense in the house for aroma. According to Petelot, it is a mistake because in Agallocha wood contains a toxic plastic that harms the health of humans.

Wind leaves & flowers (Photo: gpo.or.th)

According to the experience of the " rhythm " people (find the bass), when it comes to the trees 30-40 meters high or higher, the leaves are yellow and gradually smaller, the trunk has many tumors like the nests or The root has termite mound, the Wind tree has Ky nam. When they met the Wind tree, they had to lower the tree, dig up the roots to find it, because Ky nam could lie on the tops, in the trunk or in the roots. When encountering young Wind trees, people often use knives to stalk trees into wounds and follow up many years later to get Tram - Ky.

It is said that when injured, the tree will accumulate plastic here to bandage as a possibility of self-resistance to fight disease so Tram - Ky. According to the old people "walking", it is easier to meet Tram in the forest than before, perhaps during the war, the shrapnel was pinned to the tree. . It is also possible that after liberation many people go to the forest to meet Tram and Ky nam.

In 1977, Julaluodin was found in the Hair area of ​​the Wind tree containing a type of Cryptosphaeria mangifera. He experimented by transplanting these mushrooms into the stems of healthy trees. After a period of time, the infected area becomes dark and turns into Hair clearly because the burning smell emits.

Whether being injured or when being infected in a certain area, plastic accumulation plants come to self-bandage or self-resistance so it has created Tram Huong and Ky nam.

Wind trees that grow in dense forests overlap with other types of scallops so it is difficult to find, but once you get a Wind tree, you must have Tram and Ky nam to try many people. "The forest must be threaded from month to month to search. In addition to fresh food, take away the " statue " intestines to bring with them, eat moderately to help with hunger while going to the forest for a long time. There are many times when the food runs out, when straying in the forest, the " go" has to suck on the wormwood (Galanga cyrcuma), a kind of wild, sweet aroma that makes the gut feel good while searching for its way back.

Because the journey is long and full of hard work, people who " eat low " when they return to often emaciated, hirsutistic hair, torn clothes are like a wild man so many people have imagined the scene. Find a long time to turn into a forest man ". It is not to confuse the beasts as some people mistakenly think, because "people who walk" often carry whip or strawberry whips, occasionally whipping the air into the sound of "crying," trot ", it is these sounds that make tiger tigers stay away as well as the whip of the circus animal instructor that makes the tiger be glaring.

Wind fruits
(Photo: gpo.or.th)

Not everyone who " goes to the tune " earns Agarwood, some people have people, so the " deep-eating " people often believe in superstition that new honest people are Thien Y Ana (incarnation of Tram tree, Ky nam). see. Therefore, before going to the forest to search, the " go-go " must see the good day to go out, before having to eat vegetarian for 3 days, avoid sharing with women, while going to the forest, there must be no false thoughts. , do not talk to each other, do not fight each other . When it comes to meeting a deep tree, he must starve himself to keep himself pure, go to a nearby stream to cleanse and then worship Thanks to the God of the Forest before lowering the Wind Tree to find the Agarwood core.

Uses of Tram Huong and Ky nam

Aquilaria and Ky nam are very valuable in the international market, especially for China. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan. These are precious aromas in the preparation of fine perfumes like Santal, Nuit d'Orient ., some bath soap and especially incense sticks.

The value of Tram and Ky nam is high because it has a very good curative effect in Oriental medicine:

- Except for blue-green gas paint : People often take a deep breath in the house to eliminate poisonous gas and often bring Ky nam in people to prevent blue-green paint. In some areas, especially in Phu Khanh, people often wrap Ky Nam in a canvas bag to wear in the neck as a "talisman". Children under 1 year of age wear 2 only, 1 to 5 years of age wear 3 only, adults wear 5 only.

- Used as antidote and except for malaria : in Cambodia, according to doctors Menaut and Phana Douk, people often use Ky nam, Tram and ivory grinding with cold water to drink. 2-3 times a day, 3 to 1 drink at a time.

- Abdominal pain medicine : According to Dr. Sallet, the South medicine has a very good prescription for treating colic, including: Frankincense 2 only, excellent color with Nut, areca nut, bark of Magnolia, Sa Nhon, Can khuong . . In 2 and a half cups of water remaining 9 divided into 2 drinks a day will make the abdomen end.

- Urinary tract treatment : People often bring Tram in the phonetic zone to treat urinary tract disease.

- According to Oriental medicine, Ky nam used to treat toxic diseases caused by the earth, causing chronic dyspepsia, fullness, abdominal pain, vomiting, asthma, shortness of breath, lowering air reversal, and closing air Damage caused. Grind 3 to 1 only, depending on the age of small children mix with cold water or put in boiled water and drink.

- Contraindications:

+ Aggravation is a fetus, so pregnant women should not drink or carry inside, can cause miscarriage.

+ People with weakness and anorexia, liver failure . should not use Tram - Ky.

- In the middle of the period, it has a hydrophobic nature, so try not to drink Tram - Ky with the drugs belonging to the nature of the fire according to the yin and yang of the Five Elements.

Geographical distribution of Tram - Ky trees

Agarwood is often found in the Wind trees that grow in the mountains towards the sea breeze, so we often see in the East of Truong Son rather than the West Truong Son.

In Indochina, Tram Ky is abundant in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Particularly in Vietnam, little is found in the Depression above the 17th parallel.

- In Binh Tri Thien often found in Cam Lo area of ​​Quang Tri, A Sao, A Luoi areas, Thanh Son area. Oh oh and Hai Van Pass area of ​​Thua Thien.

- In Binh Dinh from Quy Nhon mountain area.

- In Khanh Hoa. Phu Yen has a lot in Van Gia, Tan Dinh, An Thanh, Binh Khang, Duyen Khanh .

- In Binh Thuan, there is a mountainous area adjacent to Lam Dong.

- In Lam Dong we can find Tram in the mountains bordering Binh Thuan.

- In the islands, there are many Tram - Ky in Phu Quoc.

In 1973, I instructed some students to study Plant 2 certificate of Dalat University, according to Ta In road to Ta Nhien, to Sa Mai, Thac Thieng . to find a forest with many Wind trees. There we were instructed by an Cam "old man" who went to see the forest and was told that samples of Tram Huong and Ky Nam were collected in this area and the mountains went between Di Linh and Phan Thiet. . We see Tram here is as good as Tram Hương in Quảng Trị and Kỳ Nam in this area, which is nearly the same as the Nam Kỳ in Khánh Hoà and Phú Yên.

So Lam Dong in addition to the rich pine forests with large reserves to supply pine, pulp and incense, there is also the prospect of exploiting Tram Ky which is a very valuable export product in the national market. sacrifice.

Want to be large output, right now must have a plan to prevent people from lowering trees Wind indiscriminately, and growing more trees Wind and for infection to form Agarwood and Ky nam by us. to avoid searching and wandering in the jungle like the previous "people".

SAM SAILING