The invention belongs to the fields of natural medicines and
cosmetics, and discloses applications of Chinese
torreya essential oil in preparing medicines for treating
inflammation-related diseases, and applications of Chinese
torreya essential oil as the functional component in the
cosmetics, so that the
anaphylactic reaction of the
cosmetics is reduced, and the anti-inflammatory repairing capacity of the
skin is improved. The animal
inflammation experiment proves that no matter after Chinese
torreya essential oil is taken orally or externally applied, the mouse acute
inflammation caused by
egg white can be obviously inhibited, and in addition, the mouse acute inflammation caused by carrageenin also can be obviously inhibited. Chinese torreya essential oil is prepared from Chinese torreya
aril through a
distillation method, a cold pressing method, a
solvent extraction method or a CO2 supercritical extraction method. The requirements for the quality of the Chinese torreya essential oil are as follows: the colourless or chartreuse liquid adopted has the characteristic
aroma of Chinese torreya fruits, and has the
relative density (at 20 DEG C / 20 DEG C) being 0.850-0.860, and the sum of the contents of the characteristic components alpha-
pinene and
limonene is greater than or equal to 30%. The invention discloses the novel applications of Chinese torreya essential oil in preparing the anti-inflammatory medicines or cosmetics. In addition, by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different
extraction methods of Chinese torreya essential oil, the invention provides a preferable preparation method of Chinese torreya essential oil.