What do we have in common Pine needles? In fact, it is also a good Chinese herbal medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, pine needles of pine trees are considered bitter and mild in taste. What is the main reason? Soothe the nerves, replenish qi and remove rheumatism? The effect is equivalent. As for the practical application of pine needles, it mainly has the following functions.

1, pine needles have the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep.

Pine needles contain a special fragrant and pleasant smell, which can give people a refreshing and refreshing feeling. When pine needles are used as medicine, they can also relax the mind and spleen meridians, and can play a role in calming the nerves and helping sleep.

In some folk places, people directly use fresh pine needles to boil water instead of drinking tea, which can alleviate the problems of poor sleep, panic and neurasthenia caused by lack of heart and impatience.

2, pine needles have the effect of eliminating dampness and evil spirits, stopping arthralgia and relieving pain.

Pine needles are slightly bitter in taste and mild in medicinal properties. When pine needles are used as medicine, they have the effect of warming and drying dampness. The ancients said this thing when they introduced pine needles? Good dry nature, good at expelling wind, removing dampness and stopping arthralgia? .

In some folk places, soaking pine needles in wine after boiling, or directly mashing fresh pine needles to get juice, and then soaking in wine, has good effects of expelling wind, removing dampness and stopping arthralgia.

3, pine needles have the effect of removing tinea, treating sores, removing rashes and relieving itching.

Pine needle medicine not only has the function of expelling wind, but also has the effect of drying dampness, so it also has a good relief effect on some skin itching, rash and tinea caused by wind evil and dampness evil.

For example, some unknown skin ringworm, itchy rash, boiled with pine needles, smoked and washed can be effective. Or put pine needles in a pot and fry them black, then grind them into fine powder together with camphor and calomel, and then mix them with sesame oil and apply them to sores and rashes.

4, pine needles have the effect of dispelling wind and relieving pain.

Some folk places believe that pine needles have a good effect of dispelling wind and relieving headache and toothache. For example, if you have a headache caused by exogenous cold, mash pine needles, soak them in wine, then take them out and apply them to your forehead, and drink pine needle wine to relieve the pain.

There are also some cases of toothache caused by wind evil disturbing the mouth, such as gargling with pine needles and Daqing salt wine decoction, which has the effect of stopping toothache.