Hi, I am also interested to know more about agarwood. Over here in Malaysia A. malaccensis is more widely use but there are also many other species.

Aquilaria and Gyrinops are genera that are known to produce agarwood.

The links to some studies below mention medicinal uses of agarwood:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8720378

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8441779

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7320738

This link mentions a number of medicinal uses of agarwood, such as anti-cancer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-depressant activity, you might find the references in this paper useful:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087095/

If you are interested in agarwood produced specifically by A. agallocha aka. A. malaccensis, the second link "probably" used A. malaccensis.

Since agarwood is used as a traditional Chinese medicine, you might be able to find more papers on it in Chinese journals, although you might need to be literate in Mandarin (or have friends who are) as not all papers are translated.

I hope this helps.

Dear Fiona

You are most helpful indeed

Regards

Beng Jin

Dear Fiona,

I really appreciate for this. Really given web links were helped to find more data regarding this.

Thank you very much

Harshan