This product is the young branches and leaves of the evergreen tree Platycladus orientalis (Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco) from the cypress family. It is produced throughout the country and can be harvested all year round. It is dried in the shade, cut into sections, and used raw or stir-fried to scorch.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

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

bubble_chart Efficacy

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

bubble_chart Indications

1. It is used for various hemorrhagic syndromes such as hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody stool, menorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematuria, etc., especially suitable for those with blood heat. This product is slightly cold and bitter-astringent in nature, capable of both cooling blood and stopping bleeding, as well as astringing to stop bleeding. For bleeding due to blood heat, it can be combined with Japanese thistle Herb, Small Thistle, lalang grass rhizome, or Unprocessed Rehmannia Root; if it is bleeding due to deficiency-cold, it can be combined with Blast-Fried Ginger, Mugwort, and other meridian-warming hemostatics, as in the formula Arborvitae Leaf Decoction. Modern clinical practice has shown that this product alone is effective in treating gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding.
2. It is used for cough, especially suitable for lung heat cough with phlegm. This product can clear lung heat, resolve phlegm, and relieve cough. It can be used alone or in combination with other formulas. In recent times, it has been used alone to treat chronic bronchitis and whooping cough, with certain therapeutic effects.
3. In addition, this product can be used externally to treat burns and alopecia areata. It can be ground into powder and applied topically or made into a tincture for external use.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Bielu: "Mainly treats hematemesis, epistaxis, dysentery with blood, menorrhagia, red and white discharge... eliminates fixed arthralgia, promotes tissue regeneration."
2. Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan: "Drains lung rebellion, purges heart fire, pacifies liver heat, clears heat in the blood aspect."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct 10-15g; for hemostasis, use after stir-frying to scorch; for resolving phlegm and relieving cough, use raw. Apply an appropriate amount externally.

Traditional Chinese medicine can effectively treat dry eye syndrome, floaters, retinopathy, and various chronic eye diseases

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