Essence of wind oil is a proprietary Chinese medicine, composed of menthol, eucalyptus oil, eugenol, methyl salicylate, camphor, five ingredients, cooling pain, wind and itching effect, applicable to mosquito bites and cold and flu caused by headache and dizziness, as well as motion sickness discomfort. The plum leaf holly is a kind of deciduous shrub that can be used as medicine, this medicine is not wind oil essence.
Plum leaf holly, also known as the weighing tree, its dried roots and stems of the Chinese medicine Gangmei. Gangmei is cool in nature, slightly sweet and bitter in taste, and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, generating fluids and quenching thirst, inducing swelling, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. This product is used in decoction or pounded and applied externally for cold and fever, lung-heat cough, fluid injury and thirst, bruises and pain. It should be used with caution for people with cold spleen and stomach and pregnant women.
Side effects are not clear. This medicine should not be applied to skin lesions and should not be used by pregnant women and children under 3 years old. Although not the same kind of drug, but not to be used indiscriminately, the use of a professional doctor must be guided.