Steinmetz:Cupressus
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Cupressus sempervirens (and other species)
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Coniferae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- South-Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries (especially Italy)
- Persia
- Syria
- Creta
- Part(s) Used
- Folia Cupressi
- Fructus Cupressi
- Lignum Cupressi, Oleum Cupressi (obtained from the leaves and the young twigs)
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- Constituent(s)
- fruit: tannin
- essential oil; leaf: essential oil
- Action
- fruit: vasoconstricting
- astringent
- sudorific
- diuretic
- styptic
- disinfectant
- balsamic
- aromatic; oil : astringent
- expectorant
- pectoral
- sudorific
- diuretic
- used in whooping cough
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