Source is the needles and leaves of Siberian Red Pine, Black Pine, Oil Pine, Red Pine, Huashan Pine, Yunnan Pine, Simao Pine, and Horsetail Pine in the family Pinaceae.

Taste and flavor attribution bitter, astringent, warm.

Functions and IndicationsExpel wind and activate blood circulation, brighten the eyes, tranquilize the mind, detoxify and relieve itching. Used for influenza, rheumatism, arthralgia, swelling and pain, night blindness, hypertension, neurasthenia; used externally to treat frostbite.

Use and dosage of fresh 1 to 2 taels; external use appropriate amount, decoction wash the affected area.

Pine Needle Tea Quality Characteristics: shape stretch straight like town, color green. Tender fragrance persistent, soup color tender green bright, taste fresh double mellow, leaf bottom tender green fresh, with the unique smell of pine incense.

According to the Chinese Gerontological Society of Geriatrics Committee Standing Committee Professor Jiling, pine needles are the best part of the pine tree medicinal, bitter, non-toxic, mild medicinal properties, its extracts contain phytoenzymes, plant fibers, growth hormones, proteins, fats, and 24 kinds of amino acids, pine needles have the role of lowering blood pressure. In his research, Prof. Ji found that cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and stroke improved to a certain extent after drinking pine needle preparations.

Pine Needle Tea is a needle-shaped special green tea created by the Tea Research Institute of Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1995.

Pine Needle Tea quality characteristics: shape like pine needles, pointed and straight, the appearance of the color and lustre of tender yellow like ivory, pure aroma, tender fragrance obvious, taste and mellow, soup color clear yellowish green, leaf bottom fat and even whole.

Expert tips

1. Don't just collect the pine needles by the roadside, because the pine needles here have been polluted by automobile exhaust for a long time, which is not good for your health after taking them. Do not pick young pine within 5 years and the height of less than 3 meters pine tree pine needles.

2. Boiled pine needle soup as a tea, can also be consumed in the morning and evening on an empty stomach. High blood pressure patients, do not stop taking the original antihypertensive drugs, when the blood pressure returns to normal, can be under the guidance of the doctor gradually reduce the dosage of drugs.

3. Pine needles are oily plants, easily stained with dirt, must be cleaned. Brush with soft bristles or scrub with a soft cloth dipped in detergent wrapped up pine needles. After washing, soak in clean water.

, folk traditional pine therapy for common diseases

High blood pressure 50 pine needles will be cleaned, cut into length of 1 cm or so, loaded into a jar with water decoction, drink tea, 3 to 4 times a day. Or use 50 pine needles in a mortar and pestle, add two small cups of water, grinding into juice, divided into three parts, morning, noon and night on an empty stomach.

Myocardial infarction take 50 young pine needles in a mortar and pestle, add water and grind it into mud, then filter out the pine juice with gauze and divide it into 3 parts, drink it on an empty stomach in the morning, in the middle of the day and in the evening, respectively.

Cardiac insufficiency The simplest and most effective method is to chew on young pine needles at any time.

Cerebral hemorrhage stroke Take 20 grams each of female pine needles, palm and soybeans, decoct them and take them, sweating on the forehead is better. If it is inflexible swallowing, the leaves of the female pine can be finely chopped, add wine decoction and drink, it is recommended to use more than 30 degrees of wine. Take a moderate amount each time. If to prevent stroke, chew pine needles daily. Arteriosclerosis Take 50 pine needles every day, wash them with water, put them into the mouth and chew them or take pine needles and decoct thick soup to drink. You can drink 1 to 2

small cups of pine needle wine before and after each meal.

Preventing Cerebral Infarction Take pine needles, palm and soybeans together in a decoction or chew pine needles. 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 shade-dried female pine needles, daily decoction of 20 grams. Pine needles of the new buds can also be roasted and crushed, coated in the mouth and throat. Bronchial asthma, can be decocted fresh and dried pine needles as tea.

The wind and mouth evil (oblique) will be 500 grams of young leaves of pine pounded into juice, put 1000 milliliters of wine soaked for two days, and then placed next to the fire and warmed up for 8 to 12 hours, the first 5 milliliters, and gradually 10 milliliters per meal.

Wind-heated toothache Take the oil pine knot such as jujube large piece, chopped, plus pepper 7, immersed in hot wine, hot and then add a little baked alum, to mouth mouth rinsing, a few times after the effect can be seen. Also: 100 grams of pine knots, acacia white skin, 50 grams of bone skin, decoction soup gargle, hot cough cold spit.

The cause of hypertension is more complex, such as hypertension patients at the same time and renal arteriosclerosis, kidney disease, drink a few days of pine needle tea after the blood pressure has ups and downs, do not be nervous, insist on drinking, to be the blood pressure down to normal, the Western medicine can be slow to reduce the amount. Cerebral stroke, hemiplegia, Alzheimer's disease, acute bronchial asthma, cardiac insufficiency and other patients, because of the seriousness of the disease, western medicine should also be in the guidance of health care personnel to slowly reduce the amount. Diabetes, eggs since the urine patients should be under the guidance of health care professionals to slowly reduce the amount of Western medicine. Remember: these chronic diseases are slowly accumulated, some patients were sick for decades, the body ministries in a certain state of illness has been accustomed to, even if it is towards the good side of the development, but also to slowly adapt.