In 2012 Dr. Ginn Lee and his son Tiger Lee distilled the first drops of Hong Kuai essential oil from wood chips. It’s only 11 seconds long.
This took place on his partner farm and distillery in Taitung, Taiwan. I hope you will consider visiting his Taiwan farm and distillery.
This is Dr. Cole Woolley. Send your Chinese speaking friends my next videos of Dr. Ginn S. Lee. Let’s keep exploring!
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Here’s another uncut video that I took of Dr. Ginn S. Lee describing the path that Hong Kuai logs take from the Taiwan mountains down to the wide rivers and ocean during monsoon storms.
Share this with you Chinese-speaking friends around the globe.
This is Dr. Cole Woolley. I’d like to show you the “landslide scars on the steep mountains” in Taiwan. Hong Kuai is truly a Gift from the Clouds.
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This video will give you all you need to become an expert on Hong Kuaiessential oil. Watch it several times. Memorize some of the phrases I use in my narration.
I love the “confidence, energy, respiration, decisiveness, eagerness, and being grounded” with the help of Hong Kuai essential oil. That is why I call it “Liquid Confidence”. This is Dr. Cole Woolley. Next I’ll share a video with Dr. Ginn S. Lee, PhD from Taiwan. Come join me in exploring essential oils.
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This is a short video documenting Hong Kuai essential oil when it was first introduced. I refer to it as “Liquid Confidence”. I inhale Hong Kuai fumes prior to giving presentations. I place a drop of Hong Kuai essential oil on my journal, scriptures, and special novels.
This is Dr. Cole Woolley. I’m loving Hong Kuai essential oil. I have a longer video to share. I also have some videos of Dr. Ginn S. Lee explaining Hong Kuai essential oil in Mandarin Chinese. So if you have some friends who speak Chinese, invite them to view these videos.
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Hong Kuai essential oil is truly a Gift from the Clouds. Humans are not allowed to harvest Hong Kuai trees. Only Mother Nature. So the Taiwanese proclaim, “Hong Kuai is a gift from the clouds”.
The enormous Hong Kuai trees grow high in the mountains in subtropical rain forests. These steep mountainsides are blanketed by clouds in the morning and evening. The cold nighttime air temperatures at 8000-9000 feet are chilly enough to cause the cloud mist to heavily condense into water droplets on the cold evergreen leaves of the Hong Kuai tree.
During the morning these condensed water droplet “rain down” on the ground below. This is how Hong Kuai trees receive regular watering. Yet during the “Plum Rain” season in May-July and the “Typhoon” season between August-October the skies release considerable quantities of rainfall. In the XiangYang Shan and Yushan mountains where Hong Kuai flourishes the annual rainfall is 108-144 inches (9-12 feet of rain each year)!
The heavy rains from May-October soak and saturate the relatively thin layer of topsoil that caps the towering rocky mountains. When the topsoil is saturated is starts to “creep” down the mountainside. Eventually the “creep” converts into a fast moving landslide that carries soil, trees, and plants down into crevices, streams, canyons, and rivers. This is how Mother Nature harvests large Hong Kuai trees.
The massive Hong Kuai logs may remain for 50-100 years in the mountains buried in soil, caught in log jams in narrow valleys, or soaking in a mountain stream. During this extremely wet season the high flowing streams and rivers transport Hong Kuai logs down to the widest rivers and into the ocean.
The Taiwan government and the Taiwan Native Tribes are the only groups permitted to collect Hong Kuai logs. These logs are in turn sold to private sawmills for production of lumber. These high priced 2-inch thick lumber slabs are used for building temples, monuments, and public buildings in each village, town and city.
In the milling process there are many small scraps of Hong Kuai wood. Dr. Lee and Tiger Lee purchase the Hong Kuai lumber scraps at a reasonable price. Then the Hong Kuai scraps are chipped to expose the seasoned essential oil that has been locked up in the growth rings for 1000-3000 years. The chips are then steam distilled to release the aged Hong Kuai essential oil.
Each bottle of Hong Kuai essential oil contains drops of essential oil that pre-date the founding of the United States of America, Columbus’ voyages, Michelangelo’s sculptures, the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, Aztec and Incan empires, and even Jesus Christ. This is why the Taiwanese call Hong Kuai a gift from the clouds.
By comparison, most essential oils are only 3-5 months old before they are harvested and distilled. Oils like lavender, peppermint, orange, lemon, rosemary, tea tree, and oregano are only 3-5 months old when they are distilled. This seasoned Hong Kuai essential oil is a treasure to the Taiwanese.
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I would like to introduce my good friends Dr. Ginn S. Lee, PhD and his son Tiger Lee. These are the men who bring you Hong Kuai, Xiang Mao, and Jade Lemon essential oils.
Dr. Ginn S. Lee and his family live in Taitung, Taiwan. Taitung in the southeast corner of Taiwan. From their 3 acre farm it is just a 10 minute drive to the ocean on the east and a 10 minute drive to the towering mountains on the west. They built a partner farm, greenhouse, and distillery in 2012 – the origin of our Hong Kuai essential oil.
Dr. Lee was raised in a small farming valley north of Taitung. While growing up his family spoke both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese in the home. Their major crop was Xiang Mao aromatic grass that they grew and distilled for the Japanese market. Dr. Lee has always loved agriculture and science.
Dr. Lee received his PhD in agriculture in Japan. He began his career in agricultural research for Taiwan in the Taitung region. During his career he spent two years in Saudi Arabia consulting and training farmers on Good Agricultural Practices. He has traveled throughout the world performing projects, consulting, and training. He often speaks to me in Arabic and Spanish.
Dr. Lee discovered anti-cancer properties in a native tree growing on an isolated island off the coast of Taitung. He helped commercialize this pharmaceutical product as part of Taiwan’s pharmaceutical industry.
This is just one example of his expertise that has earned him the honor of national agricultural award for Taiwan (he’s received that honor three times). He keeps these awards in his desk drawer. Dr. Lee retired from his government research job a few years ago just before I met him.
Dr. Ginn S. Lee and his wife have two sons, Goji and Gotai. Goji works closely with his father on independent agricultural projects. Goji runs the large greenhouse on their farm, tea leaf processing operation, and the essential oil steam distillation operation.
Dr. Lee’s second son, Gotai, calls himself Tiger (that’s Gotai with the syllables switched to Taigo or Tiger). Tiger Lee has a BS degree in engineering. Tiger joined his father’s agricultural research about 6 years ago. Because Tiger also speaks English, he became my contact for all essential oils coming out of Taiwan.
They brought you Hong Kuai and Xiang Mao essential oils in 2013 and Jade Lemon essential oil in 2014.
Of all their essential oils Dr. Lee and Tiger are extremely proud of Hong Kuai. Tiger loves Hong Kuai because it helps him with confidence. He calls it his “25 years and Confidence” essential oil.
Source: Dr. Cole Woolley
I would like you to understand why I cherish every drop and whiff of Hong Kuai essential oil. I refer to it as “Liquid Confidence”. I use Hong Kuai for Respiratory Health. Hong Kuai is part of a regimen to provide “Focus for Young Men 25 Years and Older”.
Hong Kuai (HOE-ng ku-EYE) is treasured by the Taiwanese. They refer to it as Hong Kuai, Kuai Mu, and Hong Kuai Mu. The scientific name is Chamaecyparis formosensis – “false cedar from Formosa”. Another common name is Red Hinoki. When you visit Japan you will see many large red “Tori” shrine gateways made from imported Hong Kuai logs. Many ancient Japanese temples and shrines were built with imported Hong Kuai lumber. All temples in Taiwan are built with Hong Kuai logs and lumber.
Hong Kuai is Taiwan’s most unique essential oil. Hong Kuai trees grow in cloud-covered subtropical Rain Forests near the top of the many 9000 foot towering mountains of Taiwan. Hong Kuai trees are massive in size and ancient in age. Other trees in the Rain Forest come and go every 100-400 years. Hong Kuai trees live to be as old as 3000-4000 years old.
Even after Hong Kuai trees die of old age they remain standing as leaf-less sentinels in the otherwise green forest. Hong Kuai trees do not decay from the wet conditions in the forest. Yet Hong Kuai is a SUSTAINABLE essential oil.
By Taiwanese national law no person is allowed to cut down Hong Kuaitrees – only Mother Nature. In Taitung region where Dr. Ginn Lee distillsHong Kuai essential oil they have received 53 inches of rain so far this year (that’s 4 feet 5 inches). That’s nothing! In the XiangYang Shan and Yushan mountains where Hong Kuai flourishes the annual rainfall is 108-144 inches (9-12 feet of rain each year)!
Such heavy rains and steep mountain slopes cause thousands of landslides each year. These mountain landslides carry Hong Kuai trees and logs into ravines, streams, rivers and eventually the ocean. Each year enormous Hong Kuai logs are collected from the rivers and ocean.
The logs are cut into thick lumber at sawmills. The lumber is used to build temples, monuments and expensive buildings. These wooden structures last forever in the heavy rainfalls of Taiwan. The scrap pieces of Hong Kuailumber and sawdust are collected for steam distillation to isolate Hong Kuaiessential oil.
To me Hong Kuai essential oils smells like “rainforest, woody, sesquiterpenes” and makes me feel “peaceful, confident, focused, decisive and engaged to act”.
Source: Dr. Cole Woolley
