Cypress seed kernel

Also known as: cypress solid

Taste and attributive meridian: sweet taste, flat; to the heart, kidney, large intestine meridian.

Nourishing the heart and blood to tranquilize the mind

Cedar seed kernel has the effect of nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, astringing sweat and moistening the intestines. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica states that cypress seed kernel is able to "master palpitations, tranquilize the five organs, benefit the qi, and remove dampness and paralysis. Served for a long time people moist, beautiful color, ears and eyes smart, not hungry, not old, light body to prolong life." In ancient times, there is a "longevity Mao female" legend: Xiang Yu stationed in Xianyang, there is a Qin dynasty courtesan fled into the mountains to cypress kernel, cypress leaves to fill hunger, winter does not feel the cold, summer does not feel the heat. Later, in the Han Dynasty, it was found that this woman had black hair all over her body, was as light as flying, and was more than 200 years old. Therefore, the ancients called the cypress tree is the wood of longevity.

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Cypress kernel is mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places. The medicinal part is the mature seed kernel of cypress, cypress belongs to the cypress family of evergreen trees, with full grain, yellowish-white, not oily, no crust and impurities for the best. Generally in the fall, winter seed maturity picking, shelling and drying; or with a small fire fried until oil yellow, aroma, that is, fried cypress kernel; or cypress kernel crushed, wrapped in oil-absorbent paper, heating and slightly baked, pressed to remove the oil, that is, cypress kernel cream. Cedar seed cream is suitable for people with thin stools. Modern research has found that cypress seed kernel contains fatty oil, volatile oil, saponin, vitamin A, protein and so on.

Effects

Effects nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, restraining sweat and generating fluids, moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels.

Attention: 1. For panic attacks and insomnia, especially for panic attacks and insomnia caused by heart yin deficiency and heart-kidney disorders. 2. For intestinal constipation and constipation of the elderly or women in labor. 3.

The authenticity of the identification

The processed long glutinous rice, and the cypress seed kernel similar, but the efficacy of the two are different, must be differentiated from the use. Cedar seed kernel is long ovate or long oval, yellowish white or yellowish brown surface, outsourced with membranous endothelium, apical slightly pointed, base obtuse rounded, soft and oily, yellow-white cross-section, rich in oily, gas slightly fragrant. Long glutinous rice was long oval, impregnated with vegetable oil slightly fried surface yellow to yellow-brown, visible thread-like umbilicus, base obtuse rounded, hard texture, cross-section of white, slightly oily, gas micro.

Precautions

1. When the cypress seed kernel in the storage attention to moth and oil, should be placed in a cool dry place. 2. phlegm, loose stools, diarrhea or vomiting with caution or contraindicated. The person who has thin stool can use cedar seed cream.