The efficacy and function of cypress branches

Cypress branches are a kind of medicinal material obtained from cypress trees. In traditional Chinese medicine, cypress branches are particularly widely used. Their main functions are cooling blood and stopping bleeding, eliminating rheumatism, lowering blood pressure, and treating burns. In addition, cypress branches have good therapeutic effects on diseases such as baldness, whooping cough, tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, etc. The following is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of cypress branches.

1. Functions and indications

Cool blood, stop bleeding, eliminate rheumatism, and disperse swelling and toxins. It is used to treat vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody dysentery, intestinal wind, metrorrhagia, rheumatic pain, bacterial dysentery, hypertension, cough, erysipelas, mumps, and burns.

2. Treatment of baldness

Soak fresh Platycladus orientalis leaves in 60% alcohol. After 7 days, filter out the liquid and apply it to the areas where hair has fallen out, 3 times a day. 13 cases were observed (all with hair loss from the forehead, top of the head to the back of the head, excluding alopecia areata), and all of them showed hair growth after treatment. If continuous application can be maintained and the drug concentration can be increased as appropriate, the hair can grow denser and is not easy to fall off.

3. Treat whooping cough

Use 1 liang of fresh Platycladus orientalis leaves (including young branches), add water and boil it into 100 ml, then add 20 ml of honey. If using dry product, boil it into 150 ml for every liang, and add 30 ml of honey. Dosage: 10-15 ml each time for children under 1 year old, 15-30 ml for children 1-3 years old, 30-50 ml for children over 4 years old, 3 times a day. Take it for 1 to 3 weeks as needed. The earlier the treatment, the higher the efficacy and the shorter the treatment course. When preparing this medicine, you may add preservatives as needed, otherwise it will turn sour or produce white foam after more than 4 days. Fresh arborvitae has better effect.

4. Treatment of tuberculosis

1. Intravenous drip: add 20-30 ml of 100% Platycladus orientalis leaf injection to 150 ml of 10% glucose solution and drip it in about 1 hour;

2. Intravenous injection: Add 20-30 ml of 100% Platycladus orientalis leaf injection into 30 ml of 10% glucose solution and complete the injection in about 15 minutes. Among the 64 patients who were treated for more than one month, 9 were clinically cured, 6 were significantly improved, 32 were improved, 12 were unchanged, and 5 were worsened. The course of treatment is generally 2 months. It is more effective for fresh tuberculosis lesions and infiltration stages, but less effective for old tuberculosis and thick-walled fibrocavitary types. No toxic reaction was observed during the application.

5. Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take 3700 grams of Platycladus orientalis leaves, decoct them in water and concentrate them into a 1:2 thick paste; grind another 300 grams of Platycladus orientalis leaves into fine powder, mix them into the thick paste, dry them, and press them into tablets, each weighing 0.5 grams. Take 4 tablets 3 times a day after meals. One course of treatment is 10 days. Or use 1.5 liang of Platycladus orientalis leaves and Artemisia argyi (i.e. Artemisia selengensis), make them into tablets, take them three times a day after meals, and take them for 10 days as a course of treatment. Side effects include upper abdominal discomfort, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, dry throat, dizziness, etc. These reactions do not require treatment and will disappear on their own within a short period of time. A small number of patients have experienced itchy rashes or edema of the eyelids, face, and lower limbs, which may be allergic reactions to the drugs and disappear on their own after stopping the medication.

6. Treatment of acute and chronic bacillary dysentery

Dry or roast the Platycladus orientalis leaves and grind them into coarse powder. Add 18% alcohol until the medicinal powder is fully absorbed. Soak for 4 days and nights and filter out the extract. Take 50 ml each time (reduce the dosage for children), 3 times a day, 7 to 10 days as a course of treatment. A total of 114 cases were treated, 100 of which were cured, with a cure rate of 87.7%. Experiments have shown that the infusion has good antibacterial or bactericidal effects. If it is boiled, sterilized under high pressure, or preservatives are added, the efficacy will be affected.