What are the effects and functions of cypress seeds?

There are many varieties of Chinese medicinal materials, so only after knowing the effects of each medicinal material can we accurately prescribe treatment prescriptions for patients, so we need to understand the effects of some medicines. Baiziren is a kind of Chinese medicinal material. Maybe everyone is very unfamiliar with this kind of Chinese medicinal material, so you need to know more about it. So what are the effects and functions of Baiziren?

1. Baiziren is used to treat constipation in the elderly: Baiziren, hemp seeds, and pine nuts, equal parts. Grind together and melt the white wax into balls the size of tung nuts. Take Shaohuangdan Decoction for 20 to 39 minutes before meals. (《Compendium of Materia Medica》)

2. Baiziren is used to treat overwork, heart blood deficiency, mental confusion, strange dreams at night, palpitations, forgetfulness and incontinence. Regular consumption can calm the mind and nourish the kidney and yin: Baiziren (steamed and dried to remove the shell) 4 liang, wolfberry (washed and dried with wine) 2 liang, Ophiopogon (remove the core), Angelica (soaked in wine), Acorus calamus (remove the hair and wash), Poria (remove the skin and core) 1 liang each, Scrophularia and Rehmannia (steamed with wine) 2 liang each, Licorice (remove the rough skin) 5 qian. First steam the pine nuts and rehmannia seeds, then pound them into a paste in a stone tool. Grind the remaining herbs into powder and mix well. Add refined honey to make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 40 to 50 pills each time, with rush soup or Yuanyan soup in the morning and evening. (Baizi Yangxin Pills from Tiren Huibian)

3. To restrain Yang Qi, stop night sweats, promote appetite, and reduce heat in the meridians: 2 liang each of new cypress seeds (grinded), pinellia tuber, oyster (cooked in a sweet pot over medium heat, quenched seven times with vinegar, and roasted), ginseng (remove the stem), white atractylodes, ephedra root (roasted over low heat, wipe off sweat), 1 liang each of five-flavored herbs, and 0.5 liang of clean bran (fried over low heat). Grind the above eight ingredients into powder and make into pills with jujube meat as big as walnuts. Take 30 to 50 pills of Miqin on an empty stomach, twice a day. It can also be used as a free tune. (Bai Zi Ren Wan from Ben Shi Fang)

4. Baiziren is used to treat blood deficiency and fire, menstrual deficiency and gradual obstruction, weight loss and hot flashes, and excessive thinking in virgins, amenorrhea and tuberculosis: Baiziren (fried; ground separately), Achyranthes bidentata, Selaginella tataricus each 5 qian (one can make 2 liang each), Zedoariae chinensis, Dipsacus asper each 2 liang, Rehmannia root 3 liang. Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 3 pills each time, with rice drink on an empty stomach, and take Zelan soup at the same time. (Bai Zi Ren Wan from "Good Prescriptions for Women")

5. Cypress nut kernel treats hair loss: one pound each of angelica and cypress nut kernel. Grind them into fine powder and make pills with honey. Take two to three grams three times a day after each meal. (Selected Works of the Exhibition: Dermatology)

6. Cypress seeds treat intestinal bleeding: 14 pieces of cypress seeds. Burn it and store it in a gauze bag. Add three cups of good wine and boil it until it is 80% cooked, then drink it. When you take it for the first time, you may feel that the dosage is increasing, but it will stop immediately after taking it again. This disease is not caused by drinking alcohol. Take decoction of mugwort leaves. (The Effective Prescriptions of Worldly Doctors)

Both pine nut seeds and Chinese jujube seeds can nourish the heart and calm the mind, nourish yin and stop sweating. However, pine nut seeds focus on nourishing the heart, while sour jujube seeds focus on nourishing the liver, and their pathogenesis is different; pine nut seeds have strong ability to moisten dryness and can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, while sour jujube seeds have strong ability to retain yin and can produce body fluids and quench thirst, and they have different treatments.

The above is an introduction to the effects and functions of pine nuts. For some patients, knowing the efficacy of some drugs is also very helpful in treating their diseases. This will make them more confident and reduce some wrong methods in use, thus avoiding causing harm to the body.