Tung seeds are collected in autumn when the fruits are mature. They are piled in a moist place, splashed with water, covered with hay, and dried in the sun for about 10 days before they can be used as medicine. The following is the medicinal value and efficacy of tung seeds that I have collected and compiled. I hope it will be helpful to you.
Medicinal value of tung oil tree
1. Treatment of scrofula: Grind tung oil tree seeds with water and apply them on it, then add one or two tung oil seeds and pork essence and meat to decoct the soup and drink it. Do not use more than once and take it several times. ("Lingnan Medicine Collection")
2. Treatment of scabies: Crush the tung fruit, twist the juice and apply it on it. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
3. Treat burns: Crush the tung fruit and squeeze the juice, mix it with winter honey and apply it to the affected area. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
4. Treat the soles of the feet stabbed by rusty iron nails: mash fresh tung fruit and brown sugar and apply it. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
5. Treat impetigo: cut the tender tung fruit and apply the water flowing out of the fruit to the affected area. ("Henan Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine")
6. Treat erysipelas: roast tung shells, grind into fine flour, and apply sesame oil to the affected area. ("Henan Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual")
7. Treat urinary and fecal obstruction: one tung oil tree seed. Take it with water, about half a grain and one tael with water. ("Guizhou Herbal Medicine") Efficacy of Tung Seed
It can expel wind and phlegm; reduce swelling and poison; facilitate bowel movements. The main symptoms include wind phlegm and throat paralysis; phlegm-fire paralysis and boils; food accumulation and abdominal distension; obstruction of bowel movement and urination; erysipelas; scabies; burns; acute soft tissue inflammation; and common warts. Cure wind phlegm and throat paralysis, scrofula, scabies, burns, impetigo, erysipelas, food accumulation, abdominal distension, and obstruction of urine and feces.
1. "Compendium": For wind-phlegm throat paralysis, grind the seeds into powder and blow into the throat to induce vomiting.
2. "Lingnan Medicine Collection Record": grind water to treat scrofula.
3. "Guizhou Folk Prescription Collection": It has the effects of facilitating defecation, inducing vomiting, and antitussive effects. It can eliminate accumulated food, treat bloating, and treat irregular menstruation in women. External use can cure sores and scabies.
4. "Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": Reduce swelling and detoxification, treat scabies and burns. How to firm up the medicinal materials of Tung Seeds
Character identification: This product is in the shape of a square or irregular block with different sizes. The surface is tan or dark brown, slightly shiny, smooth or cracked. It is brittle, easily broken, has uneven cross-section, is shiny, and has pores. Odorless, astringent, bitter and slightly sweet. The best ones are black with a hint of brown, not burnt or broken, and taste slightly bitter and astringent. Microscopic identification: Take catechu powder and mix it with water. Leave it for a while and observe it under a microscope. A large number of needle-shaped crystals and yellow lumps can be seen.
Chemical identification
(1) Take about 0.1g of this product powder, add 10ml of water to dissolve, filter, add 1-2 drops of ferric chloride test solution to the filtrate, and the solution Dark green in color. (Check tannins)
(2) Take about 0.1g of this product powder, add 25ml of water to dissolve, filter, take 10ml of filtrate, add about 5 drops of saturated bromine water, yellowish white precipitation will occur immediately.
(3) Take one end of the matchstick and put it into the water immersion liquid of this product to make it slightly colored. After drying, immerse it in hydrochloric acid and take it out immediately. Bake it near the flame, and the stick will appear dark red. (Check catechin)
(4) Take about 0.2g of this product, add 50ml of water to dissolve, add 5ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 10ml of formaldehyde test solution, heat on a water bath, if there is a yellow-brown precipitate, let it cool. Filter, add a few drops of ferric chloride test solution and 5g of solid sodium acetate to the filtrate. The lower part should be brown-red, not blue.
(Check for other tannins mixed in)