1 Can you eat cypress seed

Cypress seed is a traditional Chinese medicine, there are certain contraindications to the use of the general can not be eaten directly. If you want to use it, you need to use it under the guidance of a medical professional with corresponding symptoms.

Cypress seeds are usually dried to remove impurities and seed coat, leaving cypress seed kernels, which have the effect of nourishing the heart and tranquillizing the mind, laxative effect is suitable for yin and blood deficiencies, palpitations and insomnia, spermatorrhea, yin deficiency and night sweating, intestinal dryness and constipation of the crowd.

2 How to use cypress seeds 1. decoction

Take 6-15 grams of cypress seeds decoction.

2. Cream

Take the sorted cypress kernels, crushed, wrapped in oil-absorbent paper, heated slightly kang, pressed to remove the oil, and then finely ground.

3. Pillow stuffing

Dry the cypress seeds in the sun, sew a pillowcase of about 10cm * 20cm with coarse cloth, fill the cypress seeds into the pillowcase, seal. When using, you need to prepare a relatively thin cotton pillow, the cedar seed pillow pad in the cotton pillow underneath, so as not to pinch.

3 cypress seed contraindications

1. Cypress seed texture moist, which is rich in oil content, constipated people can play a laxative effect, but if you have loose stools and diarrhea, avoid using cypress seeds, will aggravate the symptoms of diarrhea.

2. Cypress seeds are sweet and moist, have the effect of nourishing Yin fluid, but also can produce phlegm, so phlegmatic people avoid eating cypress seeds.

3. Cypress seeds are natural plant seeds, but also one of the allergens, allergic to cypress seeds, allergy group of people with caution.

4 When to pick cypress seeds

Collection of cypress seeds for medicinal purposes or to make pillows, can be picked in August-October each year, when the cypress fruit has grown, but not yet cracked, very time to collect.

But if the collection of cypress seeds need to choose the tree naturally ripe fruit, in the ball fruit scales from greenish green to yellowish green, fruit scales slightly cracked when picking, the quality of the seed is only high, about the second half of October is more appropriate.