HEALING & CURATIVE PROPERTIES: - 

The eminent unani physician & researcher Hakeem Hashmi, Hashmi says that both the Sandalwood &
 the Sandalwood oil have been used in unani as well as in Ayurveda for many centuries. The wood is
bitter sedative cooling and a cardiac tonic. It is very useful in arresting bleeding and in promoting 
the flow of urine. Sandalwood oil is an akin & mucous membranes.

GENITO-URINARY DISORDERS: - 

Sandalwood power and also oil is considered beneficial in the treatment of gonorrhoea. Power is
 mixed with milk or made into pills to use as a medication. Sandal oil is used in treating painful &
 difficult urination & inflammation of the bladder sandal oil is taken the does of five drops in the
 beginning and gradually increased to 10 to 30 drops. Its efficacy can be infusion of by the addition
 of omamwater (bishop weed's seed water) or infusion of ginger.

DYSENTERY: - 

About 20 GMS of watery emulsion of Sandal wood mixed with sugar, honey & rice water to be
administered in the treatment of dysentery. This same treatment is also beneficial in curing gastric irritability.

PRICKLY HEAT: - 

In India & some other countries in south & southeastern Asia Sandalwood paste is a popular house 
hold remedy for prickly heat. The paste applied prevents excessive sweating and heals inflamed
 skin. Dry Sandalwood power mixed with rose water & applied over parts where there is profuse sweating. 

SKIN DISORDERS: - 

A paste or an emulsion of Sandalwood is very cooling application the inflammatory itchy & eruptive
 skin diseases. Sandal oil is very useful in curing scabies. This oil mixed with twice its quantity of
mustared oil is used for removing pimples. In summer in southern parts of India people apply Sandal 
paste over their body for its refreshing effect. Application of this thin paste especially for children is
 very effective in curing & preventing any skin infections.

PEVER & HEADACHE: - 

Applying Sandalwood paste on the temples relieves headache & brings down the temperature in Pevers. 
Sandalwood is widely used in perfumes, soap, cosmetics etc. Sandalwood power mixed with turmeric p
ower over the face hands of bridegroom is a regular customs in India marriages. Sandalwood is 
considered very auspicious in religious rituals. 
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Red Sandal Wood
It is so called because it has a purple and dark red color. It is extremely heavy and would sink in to the
 bottom of the water. It is most changeful of its texture.
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Sandal Wood
Santalum Album
Family-Santalaceae 
Ayurvedic Name: Sanskrit- Srigandha, Chandanam 
Hindi: Swet chandan. 
Habitat: Indiglenous to Mysore in southern part of India. If grown in other places than its natural habitat,
 it looses quality and quantity of its essential oil. It is a parasitic tree, bury's its roots in surrounding trees 
and takes nutrition. 
History: From past thousands of years sandal wood has been used for medicinal purposes in India Vasnava
 Hindus make sandal wood paste and offer it to God every day after that put it on their fore head as a sectorial marking.
In olden days kings and rich people when died were burned by the sandandal wood as it is known as a sacred
 wood liked by Gods. Now a days when people die and get burned few small pieces of sandalwood are put
 just to make the funeral sacred. Sandal wood is a part of Indian cultural heritage. Statues of Gods, various 
music instruments and spiritual icense have been made from them. It has a wonderful fragrance
 which last for years after years. 
Part used for getting oil: Soft wood which is found under the bark and stem of the tree.
Sources and methods of getting oil: Distillation of the soft and small size raspings or pieces of the stem.
 
Constituents of the oil Alcohol: Santalol and ketones, isovaleric aldehyde, santonone, santalone, esters, 
free acids, furfurol, sesquiterpene.
 
Action: Diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, bitter, cooling, sedative and astringent. Disinfectant to the mucous 
membrane of the genitourinary and broncial tracts. Useful for anxiety and nervous tension. It is antispasmodic and antiseptic.
 
Aroma of the oil: It has a deep smooth, gentle sweet and woody Aroma. It has special kind of tenacity only
 found in sandal wood. Its Aroma creates a meditative atmosphere. It is cooling and calming for the mind and body both.
 
Use in Ayurveda: 
• Useful in the state of anxiety, mental tension, headaches, anger negativity and depression. 
• To start a happy and cheerful day sandal soap has been used in bathing. In the night it refreshes the 
person if used in the bath. 
• It is believed sandal icenses has hypnotic effect on mind. It calms down the mind and relax. Best for 
yogies who want to meditate and get in touch with super self. It helps to achieve spiritual goals. 
• Sandal, Turmeric and Glycerine together makes a beautiful skin ointment which is useful in most of the 
skin diseases of all type of skin – oily, dry, aging skin. Good for urinary track infections, due to too much
 heat or due to too much drinking of alcohol, respiratory disorders, cystitis and gonorrhoea.
It produce freshness in body and mind. Useful in gonorrhoea, cystitis, pimples acne, biliousness, fever 
and thirst. Useful in scorpion sting paste made with rose water should be applied.
•It has been commonly used with sesame, coconut or other base oils to make a scented hair oil for mental
 coolness, as well as for migraine and other kind of headaches.
•It is reputed as an aphrodisiac as it has been widely used by Indian kings in their sweet dishes specially 
evening cold drinks, kulfis (Indian ice cream) etc.  

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