Thuja leaves cool blood and stop bleeding.

Thuja leaves are also called thuja leaves, the scientific name is thuja. Thuja tree gives us two medicinal herbs: thuja leaves and ba tu nhan. According to Oriental medicine, thuja leaves are bitter and astringent, slightly cold in nature; they enter the heart, liver and large intestine meridians. They have the effect of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, detoxifying, and also treating phlegm and dampness. They are often used in the form of burnt leaves in blood remedies. Dosage: 6 - 12g. Used raw, they have the effect of cooling blood, burnt leaves have the effect of stopping bleeding.

Thuja is used as medicine in the following cases:

Blood circulation, hemostasis:

Thuja powder: 60g Thuja leaves processed with vinegar, ground into powder. Take 8-12g each time, 2-3 times a day, with warm boiled water. Use when blood heat is strong causing nosebleeds, uterine bleeding, and blood in urine.

Or: 20g of Thuja orientalis charcoal, 16g of Pseudoryx acutangula charcoal, 63g of roasted white peony soaked in wine. Grind together into a fine powder. Take 8g each time, 3 times a day, with warm boiled water. Treats heat-induced metrorrhagia.

Four-fruit pill: 20g raw rehmannia root, 12g raw thuja leaf, 12g raw mugwort leaf, 12g raw mint leaf. Crush into pills or boil in water to drink. Treats people with heat and nosebleeds.

Decoction of Atractylodes Rhizome: 12g of Atractylodes Rhizome, 6g of dried ginger, 6g of old mugwort leaves. Boil and drink. Treats long-term vomiting of blood that does not go away.

Or: Thuja orientalis 12g, Atractylodes macrocephala 20g, Rehmannia glutinosa 16g, Sophora japonica flower 16g, Scrophularia ningpoensis 12g, Rehmannia glutinosa root bark 12g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day. Treats bleeding due to allergic constitution causing vascular disorders.

Treatment of heat-dampness and leucorrhea: 12g thuja leaves, 12g yu root bark, 12g atractylodes macrocephala, 12g white peony, 12g angelica, 8g cyperus, 4g coptis, 8g phellodendron. Grind together into powder, use in rice porridge to make pills or boil in water to drink.

Cure acute nephritis, pyelonephritis: 63g Thuja orientalis, 125g Sea cucumber, 4g licorice, 4 jujubes. Put all ingredients in a pot, add 1500 ml of water, boil down to 500 ml, divide into 3 doses per day.

Cure acute cystitis: Thuja orientalis 16g, Phellodendron amurense 16g, Euryale lancea 16g, Euryale 16g, Atractylodes macrocephala 16g, Scutellaria baicalensis 12g, Forsythia lappa 12g, Sophora japonica flower 12g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.

Contraindications: People with cold constitution should be careful when using.

According to Health and Life