Talk:Agarwood

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I need help with my essential oil wikiproject please. Wikipedia:WikiProject Essential Oils Ilikeguys21 (talk) 13:06, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

History section source
For the sentence Agarwood’s use as a medicinal product was also recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, which date back to approximately the ninth century, and in the Ayurvedic medicinal text the Susruta Samhita (dtd. 2nd - 6th century CE). the current (19 May 2018) text cites ; however, this is just a list of publications that does not mention the hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, nor the Susruta Samhita. A number of epigraphic references indicate the use of Agaru or aloe wood in ancient India in the middle of the first millennium CE. However, one of the publications cited on that webpage was a pamphelet where the following sentences occur on page 7 under "Use as medicine": ''Agarwood has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years, and continues to be used in Ayurvedic, Tibetan and traditional East Asian medicine, for example (Chakrabarty et al., 1994; Fratkin, 1994). The Sahih Muslim, which dates back to approximately the eighth century, refers to the use of agarwood for the treatment of pleurisy and its use is referenced in the Ayurvedic medicinal text the Susruta Samhita.'' so I have replaced the incorrect citation, and removed reference to the unmentioned Sahih al-Bukhari and changed 9th to 8th century. --Bejnar (talk) 23:15, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Added a few refs and links
I added the common name eaglewood (same as Aquilaria but in English, and found in many reference texts in English). I added references to the mention of aloes in the perfume recipe in Psalms 45. I took a moment to make a link to distinguish aloeswood from Aloes ferox, known in America as "bitter aloes," with which many Americans confuse it. Then i deleted a redundant sentence because the data about the costliness of agarwood oil was already given and did not need to be stated as the costliness of oud oil, since they are the same thing. cat yronwode, not logged in 75.101.104.17 (talk) 02:28, 9 January 2020 (UTC)