How to wash your hair with Platycladus orientalis leaves
1 First, make sure that you are using real arborvitae leaves. If possible, it is best to use wild ones. Artificial cultivation in the park has little effect.
2. It is best to keep your hair short in this way.
3. Try to remove the branches of Platycladus orientalis leaves and use only leaves.
4. You can boil the water first, and then soak the leaves of Platycladus orientalis in hot water. Don't boil the leaves of Platycladus orientalis in water, and then wash your hair when the water is clear.
Effect of Platycladus orientalis leaves on alopecia
Platycladus orientalis leaves have a certain therapeutic effect on alopecia, especially alopecia areata caused by blood heat and wind heat. People with hot constitution can't nourish their hair by consuming yin and blood, and at the same time lead to chain reactions including other visceral dysfunction and emotional disorders, which are easy to form alopecia areata and alopecia. Platycladus orientalis leaves are cold and enter the liver, lungs and intestines. Has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling, relieving fever, and tranquilizing. Therefore, it is suitable for people with warm constitution to prevent hair loss.
A friend once asked: Shampooing with Platycladus orientalis leaves to treat alopecia found that the effect was not obvious or had no effect. Yes, it is certain that the shampoo of Platycladus orientalis leaves can prevent hair loss in people with heat constitution, but to treat hair loss, it is necessary to form a scientific formula with other Chinese herbal medicines. Traditional Chinese medicine prescription is composed of a variety of Chinese herbal medicines in a scientific proportion. Often a Chinese herbal medicine can prevent some diseases, but in order to treat them, many or even more Chinese herbal medicines are needed to build the relationship between monarch and minister.
The reason of premature graying of hair in people with heat constitution is blood heat, "the essence of liver, blood and kidney dissipates, and qi and blood are weak". Nutrients cannot be transported to hair follicle tissue smoothly through blood, and blood does not raise hair, resulting in graying of hair. Washing your hair with fresh Platycladus orientalis leaves two or three times a month can prevent this kind of white hair, that is, using Platycladus orientalis leaves to blacken hair, cool blood and stop bleeding, clear away heat and detoxify, and improve the characteristics of liver blood.
The treatment of white hair and alopecia by washing hair with Platycladus orientalis leaves is the same, and the treatment effect cannot be achieved by using it alone. The prevention and treatment of alopecia and gray hair need to start from many aspects in order to achieve the purpose of hair growth and blackening. Treating white hair and alopecia with a single Chinese herbal medicine will not only fail to achieve the effect, but also aggravate the condition.
Application of Platycladus orientalis leaves
1, blood-heat bleeding syndrome
Platycladus orientalis leaves are bitter and cold, good at clearing blood heat, and can converge and stop bleeding. It is an important drug for treating various hemorrhagic diseases, especially blood-heat diseases. For hematemesis and epistaxis due to blood heat, it is often combined with Lotus Leaf, Radix Rehmanniae and Folium Artemisiae Argyi. They are all taken with fresh juice, such as Sisheng Pill. For hematuria and bloody stranguria, it is combined with Pollen Typhae, Cirsium japonicum and Lalang Grass Rhizome. For intestinal wind, haemorrhoids or bloody dysentery, it is combined with Sophora japonica and Sanguisorba officinalis. For metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia, it is usually used with Paeonia lactiflora. It can also be used for bleeding due to deficiency cold, and is often combined with herbs for warming interior and dispelling cold. If it is combined with dried ginger and wormwood leaves, it can be used to treat qi deficiency and middle cold, such as Bai Ye decoction. For example, it is combined with Radix Dipsaci, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum and Colla Corii Asini. It can be used for deficiency-cold in lower energizer and hematochezia, such as Duan Hong Decoction.
2, lung heat cough
The bitter taste of Platycladus orientalis leaves can stop diarrhea, cold can clear heat, clear lung heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for patients with cough and asthma due to lung heat and difficulty in expectoration. Can be used alone, or combined with Fritillaria and Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparata.
3, hair loss, early gray hair
This product is cold in nature, and it is called "nourishing yin" and "moistening temples" in ancient times, so it has the effect of promoting hair growth and blackening hair, and is suitable for blood-heat alopecia and premature gray hair. For example, as the end of Sun Zhenren's food taboo, this product is coated with sesame oil to cure hair growth; The prescription takes raw cypress leaves and raw aconite as powder, pig fat as pill, and shampoo with soup to treat alopecia.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 10 ~ 15g. Appropriate amount for external use. Hemostasis, charcoal-frying, expectorant and cough-relieving should be used raw.