It was highly priced during ancient times and fetched much wealth. Sandalwood yields an essential oil. This oil is used to produce soaps, perfumes incense stick cosmetics, beauty aids, medicines. The wood is bitter sedative cooling and a cardiac tonic. It is very useful in arresting bleeding and in promoting the flow of urine.
Power is mixed with milk or made into pills to use as a medication.
This same treatment is also beneficial in curing gastric irritability. The paste applied prevents excessive sweating and heals inflamed skin. 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.