What are the effects of Platycladus orientalis leaf pillow

Using sidera leaf as a pillow actually has a relatively high health value. Sidera leaf has many functions and effects. It can cool blood and stop bleeding. It also has three toxins and antibacterial and antiviral effects. It can inhibit a variety of viruses and bacteria, play an anti-inflammatory role, and can also relieve asthma and cough, calm and promote sleep. So after understanding its effects, we can use sidera leaf correctly according to our own situation.

1. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding

Platycladus orientalis leaves are bitter and cold in nature, good at clearing blood heat, and have a bitter taste with astringent and hemostatic effects. They can be used to treat various bleeding diseases. The hemostatic effect will be significantly enhanced after being fried into carbonized form, especially for the treatment of various blood heat bleeding.

2. Expectorant and cough relieving

The bitter taste of Platycladus orientalis leaves can reduce diarrhea, the cold nature can clear away heat, and enter the lung meridian, so it has the effect of clearing lung heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Suitable for those with lung heat cough and thick sputum that is difficult to cough up.

3. Hair growth and darkening

The leaves of Platycladus orientalis are cold in nature and can enter the blood to dispel wind. They have the effect of promoting hair growth and blackening hair. They can be used to treat diseases such as premature graying of hair and beard, and hair loss due to blood heat.

4. Dissipate swelling and poison

Platycladus orientalis leaves are bitter and cold. The bitterness can relieve constipation, the lightness can disperse, the coldness can clear away heat, and they enter the liver and spleen meridians, so they can disperse swelling and toxins. Antibacterial and antiviral Platycladus orientalis leaf alcohol extract has a strong inhibitory effect on the life synthesis of leukocytes, and can exert anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the activity of 5-lipoxygenase and the components of cyclooxygenase. In addition, the water decoction of Platycladus orientalis leaves has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, and its alcohol extract has a stronger inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus than the water decoction. It also has inhibitory effects on Catarrhalis, Shigella dysenteriae, and diphtheria. The extract of Platycladus orientalis leaves contains phenolic substances, which have anti-Candida activity.

5. Expectorant and asthma-relieving

The flavonoids in Platycladus orientalis leaves have a significant expectorant effect. The alcohol-precipitated part of the Platycladus orientalis leaf decoction has a relaxant effect on the tracheal smooth muscles of animals and can partially block the effects of acetylcholine, suggesting that it has an anti-asthmatic effect.

6. Calmness

The decoction of Platycladus orientalis leaves can significantly reduce the spontaneous floating of animals and prolong the sleeping time of sedatives, but its sedative effect has no antagonistic effect on the convulsions caused by morphine.