Sandalwood is a medium sized evergreen tree with almost drooping branches dark rough bark and sweet scented, fragrant mature wood. Sandalwood is very much indigenous to India. 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.