Santalum, Sandalwood, Tan Xiang 檀香 Chanana (Ayurveda)Tan Xiang (TCM)Tsan Dan Dkar Po ཙན་དན་དཀར་པོ (Tibetan)Sandal Safed (Unani) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Santalum album,Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810 Packaging for imported SandalwoodA Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, Sayre, 1907 Australian Sandalwood available at the Chengdu Medicine Market (2010) Botanical name: Santalum spp.  1. S. album (White)  2. S. citrinum (Yellow)  3. S. spicatum, S. lanceolatum (from Australia) are also used and are available on the Chinese market.“Sandal is a kind of thick wood procured from China. It is of three kinds: (a) yellow (b) red and (c) whitish-yellow” (Avicenna)See also Red Sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus Parts used: Wood“Galen and Ibn e Maswaih [Mesue] consider Red Sandalwood to be most potent but according to some other physicians, the white variety is relatively stronger”. (Avicenna) Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Pungent, slightly Bitter and SweetRegarded as Warm in TCM. Older TCM texts regard White Sandalwood as Warm, and “Purple” (Red) Sandalwood as Cool.“It is Cold from the last phase of the Second degree to the Third degree. It is Dry in the Second degree” (Avicenna) Classifications: 2A APERIENT.  2B ATTENUATERS.  2F. PURIFYING.  2H. CARMINATIVE.  2O. ASTRINGENT.  2P. HEMOSTATICS.  2S. STRENGTHENING. 3B. FEBRIFUGE & ANTIPYRETIC.   3D.…

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