Lateral cypress leaves can be distinguished by their traits and odor.
Lateral cypress leaves are more branched with flattened branchlets. Cypress leaves are fine and small scale-like, cross-growing, appressed on the branches, yellowish green or dark green. The nature of the brittle, easy to break. It has an aromatic odor and a bitter, astringent, slightly pungent taste.
Its flavor is bitter, astringent and cold in nature. It belongs to the liver, spleen and lung meridians, and has the efficacy of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and generating hair and black hair. It is used in treating various kinds of blood diseases (non-physiological bleeding disorders), such as hematemesis, epistaxis, coughing and bleeding in stool, coughing with heat in the lungs, coughing with yellowish phlegm, hair loss with heat in the blood, and early whitening of hair.
If medication is needed, please use it under the guidance of a physician and do not use it without authorization. The use of medication should be under the guidance of a professional physician, and should not be taken on its own, in order to avoid delaying the condition.