The functions and effects of tung oil

Many people don't know much about tung oil. It is not only a quick-drying oil among the world's vegetable oils, but also has certain medicinal effects. It can be used to treat many diseases and is a kind of Chinese medicinal material. Tung oil can be used to moisturize the skin and regenerate muscles. It can also be used to clear away heat and detoxify. It also has a certain therapeutic effect on burns and frostbite. If you encounter a patient who is unconscious due to phlegm stuck in his throat, you only need to dip a chicken feather in a little tung oil and sweep it into his throat to induce spitting out the phlegm and save his life.

1. Tung oil efficacy and indications

It has the effects of inducing vomiting phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying, absorbing moisture and killing insects, moisturizing the skin and promoting tissue regeneration.

Indications

Throat congestion, carbuncle, scabies, ecthyma, burns, frostbite, chapped skin.

Related Combinations

1. To treat lockjaw, syncope and unconsciousness caused by stroke, dip a chicken feather into tung oil, sweep it into the throat, and spit out the phlegm to cure the disease. (Restoration of All Diseases)

2. To treat all kinds of sores and boils, put one pound of tung oil in a pot and boil it briefly. Before the white foam disappears, add five ounces of fried yellow ochre, sieve it carefully and wait until it turns black. It will become a paste. Apply to (affected area). (Danyou ointment from "Yan Yi Da Quan")

3. To treat chronic ulcers, use appropriate amounts of tung oil and fresh mulberry bark. Mash it and apply it to the wound, change it after it dries, until it heals. (Collection of Simple and Proven Prescriptions of Herbal Medicine)

Dosage

For external use: apply appropriate amount, rub, apply or induce vomiting.

Usage Notes

For external use only in clinical practice, prevent accidental ingestion and poisoning.

2. Introduction to toxicity of tung oil

[Toxicity] Tung oil is highly toxic and is only used externally in clinical practice. It is contraindicated for oral administration. The poisoning was caused by accidental ingestion (using tung oil as regular cooking oil in cooking dishes). According to observations of 289 cases, poisoning symptoms mostly appeared within 2 hours after accidental ingestion, with the earliest being 40 minutes and a few around 4 hours. The main symptoms are nausea and frequent vomiting; followed by abdominal pain, headache, dizziness, difficulty breathing, convulsions in the limbs, numbness of the hands and feet, chills, vomiting blood, bloody stools, and fever; in severe cases, coma and laryngeal muscle spasms may occur. Laboratory tests indicate that some cases have mild kidney damage, and can aggravate the clinical symptoms of liver disease and changes in liver function. All of them recovered after timely treatment. In addition, there are people who suffer subacute poisoning due to continuous ingestion of trace amounts of tung oil (tung oil is mixed with cooking oil). According to the report of 52 cases, the clinical manifestations of this disease are different from those of acute poisoning mentioned above in the following aspects: 1. The gastrointestinal symptoms are mild; 2. The systemic symptoms are obvious, and fever, shortness of breath, numbness of hands and feet are much more common than those of acute poisoning, and there are rare signs of acute poisoning such as lower limb edema, decreased sensation, hot flushes, and enlarged heart; 3. The prognosis is more serious, and 5 cases in this group died of heart failure.