What are the uses of the Japanese pagoda tree? A quick look at the latest analysis

The Japanese pagoda tree has dense branches and leaves, forming a green canopy like a cover; it is suitable as a shade tree, and in northern China it is mostly used as a street tree. It is also very suitable for planting in parks, around buildings, in residential neighborhoods and on lawns. The dragon-claw Japanese pagoda tree is suitable for opposite planting or row planting in front of gates, or as a solitary specimen beside pavilions, terraces and rockeries. It can also be used for greening industrial and mining areas. In summer and autumn its flowers can be enjoyed, and it is an excellent honey-source plant. The wood is highly elastic and resistant to water and moisture. It can be used for construction, ships, railway sleepers, vehicles and carving, etc. The seed kernel contains starch and can be used for brewing wine or as a paste material or feed. The bark, branches and leaves, flower buds, flowers and seeds can all be used as medicine.

Economic uses of the Japanese pagoda tree

The Japanese pagoda tree has high economic value. Its wood is resistant to water and moisture, elastic and of excellent quality. Its flowers can be used as medicine and can also be made into pigment. Its seeds can be pressed for oil to make soap. The Japanese pagoda tree is a symbol of good fortune, happiness and beauty, and it is a tree species that the urban and rural people of Tianshui City have loved to plant since ancient times.

1. An excellent honey-source plant.

2. The seeds are pressed for oil for industrial use.

3. The outer pericarp of the Japanese pagoda tree pod can be used to extract maltose, etc.

4. The wood is used for construction or for making farm tools and furniture.

5. It has strong resistance to toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and chlorine.

Medicinal value of the Japanese pagoda tree

1. Japanese pagoda tree leaves

Japanese pagoda tree leaves taste bitter, are neutral in nature and non-toxic. Main indications: tree bark, root white bark.

① Stiff body after stroke, with inability to turn. Cut the Japanese pagoda tree bark (the yellow-white kind) into fine pieces, add 6 sheng of wine or water, boil down to 2 sheng, and take in divided doses.

② Wind-caused toothache. Take a handful of Japanese pagoda tree white bark, cut it fine, add 1 sheng of fermented milk and boil, remove the residue, add a little salt, and gargle.

③ Earwig-induced malignant sores. Soak Japanese pagoda tree white bark in vinegar for half a day, then wash the affected area. Japanese pagoda tree leaves:

④ Intestinal wind and hemorrhoids. Take 1 jin of Japanese pagoda tree leaves, steam them thoroughly and dry them in the sun, grind into powder, and decoct to drink as a tea substitute. Long-term use can also improve eyesight.

⑤ Nasal congestion. Boil Japanese pagoda tree leaves in water, boil 5 sheng down to 3 sheng, add scallion and fermented soybean to blend, and decoct to drink.

2. Japanese pagoda tree branches

① Wind-heat toothache. Burn Japanese pagoda tree branches and cauterize the painful area.

② Blood flooding and white discharge. Burn Japanese pagoda tree branches to ash, take 1 spoonful per dose, take before meals, swallowed with wine. Take twice a day.

③ Genital sores with damp itching. Decoct Japanese pagoda tree branches in water and wash with the hot liquid.

3. Japanese pagoda tree flowers

① Persistent nosebleed. Take equal parts of Japanese pagoda tree flowers and cuttlefish bone, half raw and half fried, grind into powder, and blow into the nose.

② Persistent vomiting of blood. Burn Japanese pagoda tree flowers until their nature is preserved, add a little musk, grind evenly, and take 3 qian with glutinous rice soup.

③ Coughing blood and spitting blood. Fry Japanese pagoda tree flowers and grind fine; take 3 qian per dose with glutinous rice soup. After taking the medicine, one must lie quietly for 1 to 2 hours.

④ Blood in urine. Take 1 liang each of Japanese pagoda tree flowers (fried) and turmeric root (roasted), grind together into powder. Take 2 qian per dose with light fermented soybean soup. It works immediately.

⑤ Bloody stool. Take equal parts of Japanese pagoda tree flowers and schizonepeta spike, grind into powder, and take 1 spoonful with wine. Another formula: take 3 qian of cypress leaves and 6 qian of Japanese pagoda tree flowers, and decoct in water to drink daily. Another formula: take equal parts of Japanese pagoda tree flowers and bitter orange, fry while preserving their nature, grind into powder, and take 2 qian with water.

⑥ Uterine bleeding in women. Burn Japanese pagoda tree flowers while preserving their nature. Grind into powder. Take 2 to 3 qian per dose before meals, swallowed with warm wine.

⑦ Loss of voice after stroke. Fry Japanese pagoda tree flowers, and after the third watch, lie on the back and chew and swallow them.

⑧ Carbuncles and abscesses on the back (whenever one suffers heat toxin, with blurred vision and dizziness, dry mouth and sweet taste in the mouth, palpitations and heat in the back, numbness of the limbs, and a sense of red swelling on the back). Take a pile of Japanese pagoda tree flowers, fry until brown, soak in a bowl of good wine, drink the wine while hot, and recovery occurs once sweating appears. If it has not subsided, fry another dose. It will surely heal.

⑨ Nail-like sores and swollen toxins. Slightly fry Japanese pagoda tree flowers, add 2 liang of walnut kernels, place in a bowl of wine and boil several times, and take hot. For sores not yet formed, 2 to 3 doses; for sores already formed, 1 to 2 doses, and effects can be seen.

⑩ Persistent white discharge. Take equal parts of Japanese pagoda tree flowers (fried) and oyster shell (calcined), grind into powder. Take 3 qian per dose with wine.

4. Japanese pagoda tree fruit

① Intestinal wind with bloody diarrhea. Take 1 liang of Japanese pagoda tree pods (remove the stems, fry), and one half liang each of garden burnet, angelica (roasted with wine), saposhnikovia, skullcap and bitter orange (bran-fried), grind together into powder, add wine and paste to make pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take 50 pills per dose with rice soup. This formula is called “Japanese pagoda tree pod pill”.

② Rectal prolapse of the large intestine. Take equal parts of Japanese pagoda tree fruit and Japanese pagoda tree flowers, fry into powder, dip in sheep blood and roast thoroughly to eat (pig kidney peeled and dipped in the powder and roasted thoroughly to eat is also acceptable), and swallow with wine.

③ Internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids. Take half of Japanese pagoda tree pods, pound into juice, pound into juice, sun-dry, concentrate, take ground beetle as powder, and decoct together into pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take 10 pills per dose with water. When making the pills, they can also be made into suppository sticks and inserted into the anus. Ground beetle powder can be replaced with sophora root powder.

④ Heat in the eyes with dim vision. Take 2 liang each of Japanese pagoda tree pods and coptis, grind together into powder, add honey to make pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take 20 pills per dose with rice washing water. Twice a day.

⑤ Great heat with chest tightness. Burn Japanese pagoda tree pods into powder, and take 1 spoonful with wine.