This product is the young branches and leaves of Platyclatus orientalis (L.) Franco, an evergreen tree of the Cupressaceae family. Produced all over the country. Can be harvested all year round. Dry in the shade and cut into sections. Used raw or stir-frying to scorch.

[Property]

bitter and astrigent, slightly cold. act on lung, liver and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

[Indications]

1. It is used for various hemorrhagic syndromes, such as hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematuria, etc., especially for those with blood heat. This product is slightly cold and bitter in nature. It can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also astringe and stop bleeding. To treat blood heat and bleeding, it can be used with Japanese thistle Herb, Small Thistle, lalang grass rhizome or Unprocessed Rehmannia Root can be used together; if it is bleeding caused by deficiency and cold, it can be used together with meridian-warming hemostatic such as Blast-Fried Ginger and Mugwort. Such as Arborvitae Leaf Decoction. In modern clinical practice, this product alone is effective in treating gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding.
2. It is used for cough, especially for those with lung heat cough and phlegm. This product can clear lung heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It can be used alone or mixed into compound recipes. In modern times, this product alone has been used to treat chronic bronchitis and whooping cough, and it has certain effects.
3. In addition, this product can be used externally to treat burns and alopecia areata. Grind it into powder and apply it or make it into a tincture and apply it externally.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "Hematemesis, epistaxis, dysentery, metrorrhagia red and white...remove fixed arthralgia, muscle growth."
2. Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan : "Relieves lung irritation, purges heart fire, calms liver heat, and clears blood aspect heat."

[Usage and Dosage]

Take it as a decoction, 10-15g; it is mostly used for stir-frying to scorch to stop bleeding, and it is used raw for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product combines volatile oils, flavonoids, Daimyo Oak Bark glycosides, tannins, vitamin C, isopimaric acid, etc. It can significantly shorten the coagulation time; it has antitussive, dispelling phlegm, and antiasthmatic effects; it has antibacterial and anti-subcutaneous node effects; it has certain sedative and grade I antihypertensive effects.