What is pine pollen?

Pine pollen is a variety of pollen used for both medicine and food in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. as a traditional Chinese medicine, it has a history of using both medicine and food for more than thousands of years. From the Classic of Shennong Materia Medica 2,400 years ago to today's Chinese Pharmacopoeia and other medical books, it is even more regarded as "fairy medicine" in the folk because of its magical effect. let's take a look at what pine pollen is.

What is pine pollen?

Pine pollen is the dry pollen of Pinus massoniana, Pinus tabulaeformis or several species of the same genus, which is actually the sperm cell of pine stamens. Yangchun March is the mature season of pine pollen, when the airbag automatically inflates and drifts with the wind, picking needs to be picked manually within two or three days when the flower ear changes from green to yellow, and the processing technology is extremely complicated. Pine pollen gathers a large number of life elements and is rich in nutrients and active substances.

Medicinal value of Pine Pollen

[taste] sweet taste, warm nature.

Meridian of liver and spleen.

[efficacy] astringent hemostasis, dampness and sores.

[indications] traumatic bleeding, eczema, yellow water sore, skin erosion, pus dripping.

1. Compendium of Materia Medica: moisturize the heart and lungs, benefit qi, remove wind and stop bleeding.

2. "Materia Medica meets the original": pine flowers moisten the heart and lungs, replenish qi and remove rheumatism. This treatment acne wet rotten, take its cool dryness also.

3. "Materia Medica from the new": moistening the heart and lungs and replenishing qi. Stop the bleeding and remove the wind.

Edible method of Pine Pollen

1. Pine pollen can be made into many kinds, which is helpful to beauty. Pine pollen can be made into many beauty foods, such as pine flower powder cake, pine pollen honey, pine pollen tablets, pine pollen sugar crisp, pine pollen crystal, pine pollen chocolate, pine pollen biscuit, pine pollen cola, pine pollen oral liquid and so on. Broken wall pine pollen can be eaten directly, generally taken once a day in the morning and evening, 3 to 10 grams each time, directly with lukewarm water, or with lukewarm water, milk or honey. At the same time, it should be noted that the direct consumption of pollen does not have to break the wall, because whether the wall is broken or not affects the absorption and utilization of pollen nutrition. Studies have shown that pollen grains have a hard shell on the outside, which will affect the absorption of the human body.

2. Pine pollen egg sugar soup: use 1 tablespoon of pine pollen and 1 egg, put appropriate amount of white sugar into the pot, add the right amount of water in the pot, boil the egg, shell and put it into the pot, add sugar and pine pollen after the egg is cooked, stir well and drink. Pine pollen is the yellow pollen of the male inflorescence of Masson pine or other pines. The yellow pollen growing on the pine tree in spring and summer every year is chosen to shake the yellow inflorescence in a paper bag near noon on a sunny day, so that the pollen will fall into the paper bag and dry in the sun, and put it in a bottle for standby. Once a meal before going to bed every night, it can nourish yin and moisturize the mind and calm the mind. Used for impotence with decreased libido.

3. Pine pollen wine: pine pollen 100g, liquor 1000 ml, packed in a silk cloth bag, tightly fastened, soaked in wine, sealed and soaked for 10 days, often shaken, unsealed to remove medicine bag, drinking 10-15ml after each meal, which can nourish blood and remove wind, replenish qi and calm liver. It is suitable for wind dizziness, dizziness, hypertension and other diseases. at the same time, pine pollen can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite, help digestion and regulate gastrointestinal dysfunction. Pine pollen also has a good adjuvant effect on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease, constipation and so on.