1. Pine needles are bitter, astringent and warm in nature. The effects of pine needles include dispelling wind and activating blood circulation, tranquilizing the mind, brightening the eyes, detoxifying and relieving itching.

2. Pine needles are often used for influenza, rheumatic joint pain, bruises, night blindness, hypertension, neurasthenia;

3. External use can also be used to treat frostbite. It has special curative effects on hypogonadism, diabetes, constipation, frequent colds in young people, acne, allergic rhinitis, obesity, etc.

4. Pine needles in tea can cure hypertension, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, wind and blood, bright eyes, tranquilize the mind, detoxification, anti-itching. It can also treat wind pain and joint bone disease.

Club "Compendium of Materia Medica" contained, pine needles for long-term use, cure all diseases, and the five viscera, hair, cold and heat resistance, resistance to wind and rain, light body gas, guarding the center and the Valley of prolonged life. Pine leaves to remove the main evil, the evil to go is safe, the disease does not arise.

Nutritional value of pine needles

1. Modern medical research data show that the pine leaves contain volatile oils, flavonoids, resins, cellulose, lignin, chlorophyll, carotene, vitamins, trace elements and other components. Pine leaves volatile oils have expectorant, stomachic, wind, antipyretic, diuretic, analgesic, anthelmintic, antibacterial, antiviral, etc., can cure chronic infections of the upper respiratory tract. Pine leaf flavonoids, can treat brittle blood vessels and vascular osmotic pressure is not normal. Pine leaves contain resin, cellulose, etc. have hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic effect.

2. Studies have shown that pine needles do not have any toxic side effects. In the European Union and other countries, pine needles have been extracted as food additives for daily use.

3. The efficacy and function of pine needles, nutritional value is very much, there are also need to pay attention to the place. Such as pay attention to now picking pine needles to pay attention to the harm of pesticides and so on.

Pine needles of the Materia Medica records

1, the treatment of stroke: pine leaves a catty, fine cut, with a bucket of wine boiled to three liters to serve, sweating immediately.

2, the treatment of full-body bone and joint pain: that is, the festival wind. With the pine leaves pounded juice of a liter, with three liters of wine and well, seven days after each service, three times a day.

3, the treatment of wind paralysis foot: with pine leaves wine, suitable for a long time without effective treatment. Boiled juice with pine leaves impregnated rice five buckets, pine soup drink rice. Sixty pounds of pine leaves, water, four stone cooking juice to a stone, into the rice, according to the normal method of winemaking. And then into the urn to die sealed for seven days, all drunken drink after a great effect.

(1) the formula of the ancient dosage and modern dosage conversion method, you can ask a senior old Chinese medicine practitioner.

(2) pine leaves, commonly used in medicine, there are red pine (five needles a bunch), oil pine (two needles a bunch), horsetail pine (two needles a bunch), red pine three kinds (three needles a bunch), and so on. Among them, the horsetail pine has the highest medicinal value.