The efficacy and function of cypress resin

Cypress resin is a traditional Chinese medicine. It has high medicinal value and has a good health-care effect on some diseases. In our lives, many medicines use cypress as the main raw material, but we still need to pay attention to many taboos when taking cypress.

[Other name] Asphalt (Compendium of Materia Medica)

[Source] It is the resin juice secreted after the trunk or branches of the Cupressaceae plant are burned.

【Nature and flavor】 "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "sweet, neutral."

【Functions and indications】 Treat scabies, leprosy, baldness, impetigo, and erysipelas.

【Usage and Dosage】 For external use: apply on the affected area or boil it into a paste.

[Additional prescription] ① For the treatment of various types of ringworms and carbuncle that has been present for many years: apply a bottle of raw tar oil to the affected area, then fumigate the affected area with old dead mulberry wood. Stop when the affected area is healed. If the affected area is not healed in one treatment, fumigate again. (Supplement to Gangmu)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Bencao Jing Jizhu". "Compendium of Materia Medica": The Shanxi tar, which is black or purple in color, is this oil residue. It has a scent like pine resin, and when you pick it up with bamboo chopsticks, the ones that hang like a thread are real. To kill lice, if your bed, table or wall is infested with lice, drop some oil into the gaps and all the lice will die.

The above is an introduction to cypress resin. Through this introduction we can understand that cypress resin has high medicinal value and can effectively relieve many diseases, but remember not to take it indiscriminately.