Latin name： Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco

Family： Cupressaceae

Part Used： Kernels, shoots and leaves

Properties： Kernels: taste sweet, neutral in nature; Shoots and leaves: taste bitter, harsh, cold in nature

Actions：Kernels: nourishing the heart to calming mental state, moistening the intestines, checking sweating; Shoots and leaves: blood-cooling and haemostatic, dissipating phlegm and suppressing cough, regenerating and darkening hair.

Usage：Kernels: insufficient yin and blood deficient restlessness and insomnia, palpitation and morbid forgetfulness, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine night sweating with yin asthenia; Shoots and Leaves: hematemesis and non-traumatic hemorrhage, empsyxis, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxia, alopecia due to blood heat, early graying of beard and hair