What role does camphor tree leaves play in the boiling water for bathing?

Bathing with boiling water on camphor leaves can relieve itching, dispel wind and remove dampness, which is good for bad skin, allergies and mosquito bites.

When I was a child, my skin was not good, so I used camphor leaves to take a bath with boiling water, and the effect was good. It was a personal experience.

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Chinese name

leaf of camphortree

Another name

Zhangye

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source

It is the leaf of Cinnamomum camphora of Lauraceae.

plant morphology

Cinnamomum camphora, evergreen tree, 20-30 meters high. Bark grayish brown or yellowish brown, longitudinally cracked; Branchlets light brown, smooth; The branches and leaves smell of camphor. Leaves alternate, leathery, ovoid or ovoid, 6- 12 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, tapering at the apex, dark or broadly wedge-shaped at the base, entire or wavy, dark green and shiny on the upper surface, grayish green or pink on the lower surface, hairless, red young leaves, veins 3 above the base, and protruding glands in the axils of veins; The petiole is 2-3 cm long. Panicle axillary; Flowers are small, greenish white or yellowish, about 2 mm long; Perianth 6-lobed, elliptic, ca. 2 mm, densely puberulent inside; Fertile stamens 9, anthers 4-loculed; Ovary ovoid, smooth and hairless, short style; Stigma capitate. Drupe is spherical, about 1cm wide, purple-black when mature, and its base is surrounded by persistent enlarged perianth tube. The flowering period is from April to June. Fruit-bearing period: August-165438+1October.

Functional indication

Dispelling wind and removing dampness, relieving pain and killing insects. Treat rheumatic bone pain, traumatic injury and scabies.

(1) Luchuan Materia Medica: killing insects, sterilizing and treating scabies.

② Pharmacology of Nanning: expelling wind, resolving phlegm and killing insects. Treat wind, cold, rheumatism, bone pain and stomachache. External treatment of traumatic injury, detoxification, qi circulation and pain relief.

③ Guangxi TCM records: branches and leaves wash rheumatism.

collect

Before the end of March and after the beginning of May, oil was exploited many times and rarely used or dried.

medicinal material

chemical composition

The leaves contain volatile oil, the main components are camphene (54.54%), 1, 8- cineole (1, 8- cineole) and a small amount of α-terpineol and β-pinene.

pharmacological action

Prepare herbs by frying.

Sexual taste

Xin; Warm.

Meridian tropism

Heart; Spleen; Lung meridian

dosage

Oral administration: decoction, 1 ~ 3 yuan; Or mashed and ground. External use: frying, washing or pounding.

avoid

Nanning pharmacology: pregnant women should not take it.

store

Party selection

① Treatment of yellow face swelling: Cinnamomum camphora leaves and Sargentodoxa. At the end of the study, take it with boiling water for five minutes each time. (Hunan Pharmacology)

② Treatment of hookworm disease: Cinnamomum camphora tender tip is half a catty. Stir-fry until brown, add 2 Jin of water, stir-fry until it is half A Jin, and take it warm on an empty stomach the next morning. (Jiangxi herbs)

③ Treatment of foot sore, which is as big as a small pen tube: camphor leaves, mashed, slightly mixed with Jiedu pills, pasted with camphor leaves, and constantly changed. ("Zhou Yisheng Jiabao Fang")

④ Treatment of vulvar gangrene: Fresh leaves of Cinnamomum camphora combined with cool rice grains were applied externally to the affected area. It can disappear at the initial stage, and if it has suppurated, it can be discharged. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑤ Treatment of Liriodendron: Boil fresh camphor leaves with water and smoke them. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of burns and blisters: appropriate amount of camphor leaves and bark. Dry and burn ash, stir the egg whites. (Jiangxi herbs)

clinical application

Antitumor effect

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