250g, Bai Shu Guo, Cypress Fruit, Tcm Herbal

Pinyin: Bǎi Shù Guǒ

Aliases: Cypress, Cedar Tree

Source from "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine History"

The source of the medicinal material: the fruit of the Cupressaceae plant Cypress.

Latin name of plant, animal and mineral: Cupressus funebris Endl.

Harvesting and storage: From August to October, harvest when the fruit grows up without cracking. Dry and set aside.

The original tree is 35m tall and has a bust of 2m. The bark is light brown; the large branches are open; the branchlets are slender, drooping, and the scaly branchlets are flat, arranged in a plane, green, and about 1mm wide; the older branchlets are cylindrical, dark brown purple, and slightly shiny. Leaf type 2; scale leaves are 1-1.5mm long, apex is sharp, the back of the central leaf has striped glands, and the back of both sides of the leaf has ridges. Male cones are elliptical or ovoid, 2.5-3mm long; female cones are 3-6mm long, subglobose, and about 3.5mm in diameter. The cones are round, diameter 8-12mm, dark brown when ripe; 4 pairs of seed scales, apex is irregular pentagonal or square, 5-7mm wide, with pointed or absent center, breeding scales with 5-6 seeds; The seeds are broad obovate rhombus or nearly round, flat, about 2.5mm long, light brown, shiny, and narrow winged edges. Flowering from March to May, cones mature from May to June the following year.

Ecological environment of habitat division: It is a special tree species in my country.

Resource distribution: Distributed in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and other places. Sichuan, western Hubei and Guizhou have the most plants, and southern Jiangsu also has cultivation.

Cultivation:
1. Biological characteristics Cypress is a sub-therm plant and likes warm and humid climate. The annual average temperature is 13-19℃, the average temperature in January is 3-8℃, the average temperature in July is 20-30℃, and the area with annual rainfall above 1000mm is suitable for growth. The soil requirements are not strict and can tolerate barren drought. It is slightly resistant to water and humidity, and can grow in neutral, slightly acidic, and calcareous soil.

2. Cultivation technology Propagation with seeds. After the seeds are harvested, they can be sown in autumn, winter, spring, and three seasons, but autumn is better. Drilling, row spacing 20-25cm, sowing width 5cm, sowing 90-120kg per 1hm, cover the soil to the degree of invisible seeds, cover grass after sowing, seedlings unearthed about 1 month, remove the cover grass. Before and after Lidong, when the seedlings show more than three rounds of true leaves, plant ash can be topdressed to keep warm and resist cold. From April to August of the following year, topdressing fertilizers such as human excrement and ammonium sulfate will promote the growth of seedlings. The seedlings can be transplanted for three years after sowing, and transplanted from the beginning of spring to the equinox. Dig holes with a diameter of 50cm and a depth of 40cm, and transplant 3000-3600 seedlings per 1hm.

3. Field management: Weeding and loosening the soil should be done twice during the rainy season of the transplanting year and the following year, and once a year thereafter. Pruning should not be too early, generally only the lower dry branches should be pruned.

4. Disease and pest control For red blight, spray Baume 0.5-1.0 degree lime sulphur mixture in the early stage of onset combined with seedling management. Pests are mainly cypress caterpillars, which can be used to catch the larvae in the early spring by hitting the tree and shaking. Use lights to trap and kill adult insects. Cut off branches with cocoons and eggs and burn them. It can also be sprayed with 90% trichlorfon or 50% trichlorfon 1500 times liquid to kill the larvae.

Character identification: The mature and dry cones are spherical, 8-12mm in diameter, dark brown; 4 pairs of seed scales, irregular pentagonal or square at the top, and 5-6 seeds of fertile scales. The seeds are broadly obovate diamond-shaped or nearly round, slightly flattened, light brown, shiny, about 2.5mm long, with narrow wings on the edge. Smell and astringent.

Chemical composition: Seed oil contains linoleic acid and oleic acid.

Nature and flavor: bitter; sweet; flat

Return meridian: Heart; Lung meridian

Functions and indications: dispel wind; harmonize; calm the nerves; stop bleeding. Main cold and fever; stomach pain and vomiting; irritability; insomnia;

Dosage: Oral: Decoction, 9-15g. Or research at the end.

Compound:
① Treat rheumatism, cold, headache, stomachache: two to three cypress fruits. Smash and swallow the wine. (《Journal of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine》)
② Treatment of hematemesis: cypress fruit powder and sweet wine service. (《Journal of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine》)

Various discussions:
1. "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine History": treat colds, stomachaches and weak vomiting blood.

2. "Chongqing Herbal Medicine": Relieve wind evil, soothe the nerves, stop bleeding, treat blood heat and irritability, children with cold and heat, high fever, vomiting blood.

3. "Classification of herbal properties": soothe the nerves and eliminate troubles.

Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica"

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