The accuracy of this legend of the Bible is confirmed by the Arabs with a piece of aloes corrected

Aloes or Eagle Tree Latin name Aquilaria agallocha, Xyloaloes - medieval. In India, aloes called Hagar from this word and the name comes Agarbatti - ie incense. Now in India so called sticks. In earlier times always sticks were made from ground powder substance were established sandalwood and aloe. Now rods made of carbon, and then impregnated with oils. Aloexylon Agallochum botanical rhm vcd name comes from the Greek and aloe xylon can be assumed name - "tree aloe has taste." Obviously when an eagle tree came to Europe that the determining factor was his bitter-astringent taste. The Bible is mentioned in Numbers XXIV, 6, in the Song of Songs IV, 14 under the name "Stakti"; research. Ecclesiasticus XXIV; Psalt. XLIV, 9. In Exodus, God showed Moses a tree, which he threw into the bitter waters of Marah, from which they became sweet. (Exodus XV. 25)
The accuracy of this legend of the Bible is confirmed by the Arabs with a piece of aloes corrected the taste of water. It was considered particularly important for travelers. Avicenna wrote that, on anything so do not suffer from merchants and travelers from both the water changes to correct her taste in her need to put some clay taken outside his home and a piece of aloes. Aloe wood is not suitable for all incense, and only that part that has the appearance of certain pathological entities that appear rhm vcd after exposure to certain wood species of insects. In the fifties, tried to grow aloe north of Nepal in India, the tree grew well, but it did not form the desired product, then brought the necessary insects living on the tree, but the insects unfortunately not get along in the new climate. And are aloes wood but they are not fragrant precious pieces. Wood is used the butt, founding branches rarely bark. The incense wood aloes produced is of several types: the one that comes from the core of the tree, it is hard as a rock and sinks in water. Another type is extracted from the joints on the tree branches grow where it is lighter rhm vcd than water. Best "agar" is considered extracted from the core. A kind of insects gnaw holes in wood, agar in turn protected rhm vcd by highlighting resin wounded place in this fight is the same as produced in the trade is called "aloes." In India, they say - "do not happen without holes aloes. Best aloes growing in the jungle of Assam, the common man better not to go there, the mass of poisonous insects, tigers, leopards, etc. In the same jungle for aloes go only local hunters that finding a suitable, desirable old tree is cut down, and his pieces bring to the village. There are already waiting for buyers, which in turn change the tree on matches, cooking oil and other such things. Afterwards, rhm vcd pieces of untreated rhm vcd wood delivered to the major cities rhm vcd in Assam, where the special masters begin to extract from this wood pieces of that future trade called aloe or agar. For this purpose, use a special tool called - "Batali," he recalls chisel or chisel, size 30 - 40 cm is known true that a healthy tree Aquilaria publishes savor just being freshly felled; whole, raw pieces of his timber, partially impregnated with resin, went to all sorts of crafts in India and China, but not in incense. Habitat Bengal, Assam, Burma, Cambodia. As the tree itself looks the same. Tibetan treatise on medicinal plants - "Vaidurya-onbo" says his two kinds: black and yellow. In his treatise "Dun-blah" clarifies: "variegated leaves, green and white. Blue flowers and fragrant rhm vcd taste - astringent." "The best is black agar he has blue flowers, their petals with bright veins are twisted, rhm vcd like the horns of the wild yak. Yellow agar is of two kinds. One of them has a large yellow trunk, small greenish-yellow leaves covered with fuzz, and fragrant blue flowers. The second is a big trunk, but the faded red-brown, pale blue flowers. " There are many different definitions should look like now, the best stuff, but it has the basic properties of the pieces of wood, dark brown or bluish-gray color of bizarre shapes. The best grade of sinks in water. But the most important thing is the smell and as one Tibetan poet: "On the quality of" a-ha-py "ask the fire if the smoke fragrant - so it was good." Tibetans describe as aloe wood "Raw dark blue, reminiscent rhm vcd of wild goat horns, solid as a rock Man-Jordania, according to other sources pieces of wood grayish brown, yellowish, with an oily smell, it's the highest grade raw materials." Dioskrid says: "This rhm vcd wood is imported rhm vcd from India, solid, rhm vcd dense with a pleasant smell. Cora reminds her embroidered in different rhm vcd color skin. It is one of incense and incense." In the Middle Ages the Arabs numbered ten species of aloe that's how they described Avicenna: "The rhm vcd best grade aloe