Pine needles were first recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Finely cut, drunk with water and noodles, or mashed pills, can break the grain and cure evil diseases (Hongjing)". In the "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine", the main functions of pine needles: "dispelling wind and invigorating blood, brightening the eyes, calming the nerves, detoxifying, and relieving itching"; Pine needles contain flavonoids, volatile oils, shikimic acid, fatty acids and phosphorus, calcium, iron, selenium and other essential inorganic elements of the human body, as well as various amino acids.
What are the benefits of pine needles
Assist in regulating blood lipids and lowering blood pressure
Cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cerebral hemorrhage, and stroke have become the "first killers" of human health.
Anti-aging function
Chen Changwu et al. studied the anti-aging effect of pine needles, and found that pine needle dry powder extract can inhibit lipid peroxidation promoted by free radicals, and experimentally proved that pine needles can significantly increase the activity of SOD and reduce serum lipid peroxide (LPO) content in rats, indicating that pine needle extract can reduce lipid peroxide to tissue damage, and these effects are related to anti-aging.
Improves sleep function
Zhao Guizhi et al. studied the effects of pine on sedation, hypnosis and brain neurotransmitters, and the experimental results showed that the n-butanol extract and ethyl acetate extract of pine needles could prolong the sleep time and increase the number of sleep in the sodium IP model mice, and the peak area of γ-aminobutyric acid and glutamate in the hippocampus of the brain was detected by HPLC, and the experiment proved that the pine needle extract could also increase the content of γ-aminobutyric acid in the hippocampus, which had obvious sedative and hypnotic effects.
Boosts immune function
Pine needle extract plays a protective role in immune organs, can inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and increase the body's immunity.
Traditional pine needle therapy for common folk ailments
【Diabetic】When you are thirsty, put the red pine needles in a mortar and grind them, and drink their juice. Or mix with 4 parts of pine needles and 6 parts of young cypress leaves, and take it by decoction. Avoid meat when serving.
【High blood pressure】Wash 50 pine needles, cut them into about 1 cm in length, put them in a jar and add water to decoction, drink instead of tea, 3~4 times a day. Or use 50 pine needles in a mortar, add two small cups of water, grind into juice, divide into 3 parts, and drink on an empty stomach in the morning, noon and evening.
【Gout】After the pine needles are decocted, remove the leaves and soak the gout-affected area in a soup at about 40 degrees Celsius.
【Prevention of Plague】Finely cut the pine needles, take 1 spoon each, and send it down with wine, 3 times a day. Or drink pine needle tea.
【Acute gastritis】Take 10 grams of dried pine needles, add 300 ml of water, decoction to half of the water, 3 times in the morning, noon and evening, and take it on an empty stomach.
【Cerebral hemorrhage stroke】Take 20 grams of female pine needles, palms, and soybeans, and take them after decoction, so that the forehead sweats better. If swallowing is not flexible, you can cut the leaves of the female pine finely and add wine to decoction and drink, it is recommended to use wine above 30 degrees. Appropriate amount each time. To prevent stroke, you can chew pine needles every day. Arteriosclerosis takes 50 pine needles a day, washes them with water, puts them in the mouth and chews them or takes the pine needles to decoction and drink thick soup. Drink 1~2 small glasses of pine needle wine before and after each meal.
【Allergic rhinitis】Use 20 grams of dried pine needles or fresh pine needles to decoction.
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[Periarthritis of the shoulder, cervical spondylosis] decoction of pine needles, instead of tea.
【Swollen and sore gums】Use 50 grams of pine needles, 5 grams of refined salt, 100 ml of wine, and 500 ml of water to decoction and cough.
【Joint soreness】Use tender pine needles and pine nodules in equal parts, pound the juice, take 250 grams and add 500 ml of wine to soak for 7 days, 3 times a day, 1 cup (about 10 grams) each time;
【Neuralgia】Pound the juice of fresh pine leaves as tea, or take 100-200 grams of fresh pine needles, add an appropriate amount of wormwood and willow leaves, put it in a cloth bag and boil water for a bath.
【Myocardial infarction】Take 50 tender pine needles and put them in a mortar, add water and grind them into a puree, and then filter out the pine juice with gauze and divide it into 3 parts, and drink it on an empty stomach in the morning, noon and evening.
【Anti-itching and anti-rash】Cut the pine needles and boil the water for about 20 minutes, then rub the itchy area, it will be good in a few days, even if there are small pimples, it can be eliminated. As long as the skin is itchy, it is useful. Pimples all over the body caused by asphalt, etc., can also be wiped with pine needle water.
The simplest and most effective way to do cardiac insufficiency is to chew tender pine needles at any time.
Pound 500 grams of young pine leaves into juice, soak them in 1000 ml of wine for two days, then put them next to the fire and warm them for 8~12 hours, take 5 ml at first, and gradually 10 ml per meal.
【Prevention of cerebral infarction】Pine needles, palms, and soybeans are boiled together, or pine needles are chewed. Drinking some pine needle juice every day can purify the blood and prevent cerebral infarction, and drinking pine needle wine has the same effect.
[Asthma, allergic asthma] take the female pine needles dried in the shade and decoction 20 grams a day. The sprouts of pine needles can also be roasted and ground and coated on the mouth and throat. For bronchial asthma, you can decoction fresh, dried pine needles as tea drinking.
【Periodontal disease】 Add 30 grams of pine needles to 500ml of water, decoction of half of the left, let it warm, and scrub the affected area with the juice of disinfectant absorbent cotton.
【Canker sores】 Treat the affected area with absorbent cotton dipped in pine needle juice.
【Bad breath】 It is often chewed with several pine needles in the mouth.
【Diarrhoea】Drink pine needle juice.
【Tuberculosis, pleurisy】 Take pine needle sprouts to dry in the shade, decoction and drink. The daily dosage should be about 20 grams. Or take pine resin powder daily, 1/2 tablespoon at a time, 3 times a day.
【Pelvic inflammatory disease】Wash and soak the lower abdomen and waist with pine needle water several times a day.
【Hangover】Serve with red pine needles boiled.
【Constipation】Take 3 old pine needles near the roots of pine branches and chew them 3 times a day.
【Alzheimer's disease】Take pine needles and pine bark (tender skin under the epidermis) and decoction together to replace tea.
【Insomnia】Eat more pine nuts or drink pine needle tea every day.
【Silent aphasia】 When you can't make a sound due to excessive speech, you can chew pine needles in your mouth, or you can take raw pine needles or dried pine needles and decoction them instead of tea. This method can also treat a sore throat.
【Motion sickness】When riding a car or boat, chewing pine needles in your mouth can prevent it.
【Body surface ulcer】 Take fresh pine needles or dried pine needles in the shade and decoction the juice.
【athlete's foot (athlete's foot)】Method 1: 3000 grams of pine needles, add 40 kg of water, boil into 25 kg of leaf juice, and 25 kg of rice to make wine, 7 days later, take pine needle wine, 3 times a day, 20~50 ml each time. Method 2: Take 10 grams of fresh pine needles, cut them and match them with 10 ml of edible vinegar, add 40 ml of water to boil and stir, and take the liquid medicine to rub the affected area.
Remedies related to pine trees and pine needles
【Nausea and vomiting】Boiled wine with turpentine and drink.
【Wind heat toothache】Take a large piece of turpentine such as jujube, chop it, add 7 peppers, soak it in hot wine, add a little white alum after heating, use it to gargle with mouth, and it can be effective after several times. Again: Use 100 grams of turpentine, 50 grams of white bark and 50 grams of ground bone skin, rinse your mouth in decoction, and vomit hot.
【Toothache】Soak the pine resin in boiling water and cough your mouth. Or chew a few pine needles in your mouth, and the pain will be relieved quickly. When you have a toothache, you can put a little pine resin between the tooth cavities.
【Body Weakness】Take the same amount of black sesame seeds and black beans and fry them and grind them into powder, then grind half of the amount of dried pine needles of black beans into powder, mix them, and take one tablespoon a day.
【Liver deficiency and tears】Use 500 grams of refined pine resin, 20 kilograms of rice, and 50 liters of water to make wine. Drink small amounts frequently. Chronic alcoholism Pine needles are used to make tea, and drink several times a day.
Use 100 grams of turpentine, grind finely, add 10 grams of frankincense, stir-fry over slow heat, grind the end, and mix with hot papaya wine. Take 10 grams 3 times daily.
【Bruises】 The treatment is the same as that of tendon spasm emergency.
[Deaf and deaf for a long time] take 150 grams of pine resin, 50 grams of croton, mash them into pills, wrap them in thin cotton, stuff them in the ears, and change them twice a day.
【Scabies and eczema】Grind the rosin and add a little talcum powder. Apply oil to the sores first, then sprinkle with powdered medicine, 2-3 times a day.
【Nameless swelling and poison】400 grams of rosin, 10 grams of copper green, 25 grams of hemp seeds, after mixing, spread the affected area in batches, and change it once every 1-2 days.
1000 grams of pine needles, 250 grams of ephedra (knots), grind finely, add 2000 ml of wine, and soak for 7 days. Take warm 3 times a day, 10 ~ 20 grams each time.
【Scrotal itching】Wash the affected area with pine needles decoction. Or roll it into the paper tube with rosin powder, add 3 peppercorns, soak in sesame oil for 3 days, take out the paper tube to burn the dripping oil, and take the oil to rub the affected area. The affected area should be washed before applying oil.
【Women's white belt】250 grams of rosin, 50 grams of pine needles, 1000 ml of wine, boiled and dried, mashed, and made into sycamore-sized balls. Take 10~15 capsules per serving, 3 times a day.
The most common method of pine needle tea is boiling. First, cut the washed pine needles into three sections, put 600ml of water, boil in a casserole or stainless steel utensil, and boil until 300ml of water (about 10~15 minutes). There is another method: cut the washed pine needles into three sections, put them in a hot water bottle, flush in boiling water, and simmer for half an hour. Generally, pine needles can be boiled several times, and the taste and composition are different each time, so they can be drunk instead of tea. If it is for health purposes, there is no need to fry it too strongly, and the dosage is about the same as that of tea.
Note: The above is for reference only, please adjust under the guidance of a physician.
Source: Maimai Health