The efficacy and function of pine needles

Pine trees are a common plant among us, but most people don’t know that pine needles actually have many uses and benefits. Pine needle tea can treat diseases such as high blood pressure, and pine needle foot bath can also treat athlete's foot and relieve stroke symptoms. Pine needles can also dispel wind and heat, promote blood circulation and improve eyesight, and treat common diseases such as frostbite. You can keep some pine needles, dry them and store them for emergency use.

1. The efficacy and function of pine needles

1. The properties of pine needles are bitter, astringent and warm. The effects of pine needles include dispelling wind and activating blood circulation, calming the mind, improving eyesight, detoxifying, and relieving itching.

2. Pine needles are often used for influenza, rheumatic joint pain, swelling and pain caused by falls, night blindness, hypertension, and neurasthenia.

3. External use can also treat frostbite. It has special therapeutic effects on sexual dysfunction, diabetes, constipation, frequent colds in young people, acne, allergic rhinitis, obesity, etc.

4. Drinking tea made from pine needles can cure high blood pressure, high blood lipids, dispel wind and promote blood circulation, improve eyesight, calm the nerves, detoxify, and relieve itching. It can also treat rheumatism, joint pain, and bone diseases.

5. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that long-term use of pine needles can cure all kinds of diseases, soothe the five internal organs, grow hair, resist cold and heat, resist wind and rain, make the body light and benefit the qi, and prolong life by keeping the body in harmony and fasting. Pine leaves are mainly used to remove evil spirits. Once the evil spirits are removed, the body will be at peace and diseases will not occur.

2. Nutritional value of pine needles

1. Modern medical research data show that pine needles contain volatile oils, flavonoids, resins, cellulose, lignin, chlorophyll, carotene, vitamins, trace elements and other ingredients. The volatile oils of pine needles have the effects of expectorant, stomachic, wind-relieving, antipyretic, diuretic, analgesic, anthelmintic, antibacterial and antiviral, and can treat chronic upper respiratory tract infections. Pine leaves contain volatile oils, flavonoids, resins, cellulose, lignin, chlorophyll, carotene, vitamins, trace elements and other ingredients. The volatile oils of pine needles have the effects of expectorant, stomachic, wind-relieving, antipyretic, diuretic, analgesic, anthelmintic, antibacterial and antiviral, and can treat chronic upper respiratory tract infections. Pine leaf flavonoids can treat brittle blood vessels and abnormal vascular osmotic pressure. The resin and cellulose contained in pine needles have the effect of lowering blood lipids and blood sugar.

2. Studies have shown that pine needles have no toxic side effects. In the European Union and other countries, pine needles have been extracted and made into food additives for daily use.

3. Pine needles have many functions, effects and nutritional values, but there are also things that require attention. For example, be careful about the hazards of pesticides when picking freshly picked pine needles.

3. Records of pine needles in Compendium of Materia Medica

1. To treat stroke: Take one pound of pine leaves, chop them into small pieces, boil them with one dou of wine until three liters remain, and drink it all at once. You will sweat and recover immediately.

2. Treat pain in bones and joints all over the body: also known as lijiefeng. Mash one liter of pine needle juice and mix it with three liters of wine. After seven days, take one dose three times a day.

3. To treat rheumatism and beriberi: use pine leaf wine, which is suitable for those who have not been cured by long-term treatment. Boil pine needles in juice and soak five dou of rice, then drink the pine soup with rice. Use 60 jin of pine needles and 4 shi of water to boil the juice until 1 shi is left, add rice and make wine in the usual way. Then put it into a jar and seal it for seven days. It will be very effective after everyone is drunk.

4. You can consult an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner about how to convert the ancient dosage into the modern dosage in a prescription.

5. Pine leaves. Commonly used medicines include red pine (five needles in a bundle), Chinese pine (two needles in a bundle), horsetail pine (two needles in a bundle), red pine (three needles in a bundle), etc. Among them, Masson pine has the highest medicinal value.