Semen Cassiae-original Semen Cassiae-medicinal material is dried and mature seed of Cassia obtusifolia or Cassia obtusifolia in Leguminosae. It is cultivated all over the country, mainly in Anhui, Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places. Mature fruits are harvested in autumn, dried in the sun, and seeds are buried to remove impurities. Raw or fried. This medicine tastes sweet, bitter, salty and slightly cold. Liver and large intestine meridians entered. Clearing away heat and improving eyesight, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Application 1. Eyes are red, swollen, tearful and blurred. This product mainly enters the liver meridian, and is good at clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and treating liver heat, red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears. It is often used in combination with Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Equisetum equisetum and Cinnamomum cassia powder (Hai Yin subtle). For example, it is compatible with Chrysanthemum, Semen Celosiae and Fructus Leonuri. It can be used to treat wind-heat headache and red eyes, such as cinnamon pill (standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment); This product is beneficial to liver-yin function. It can be used together with Cornus officinalis and Radix Rehmanniae to treat yin deficiency of liver and kidney, blurred vision and blurred vision, such as Jueming Powder (Hai Yin subtle). 2. Headache and dizziness. Bitter cold entering the liver can clear away liver fire and calm liver yang, so it can be used to treat headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang. Often combined with chrysanthemum, Uncaria rhynchophylla and Prunella vulgaris. 3. Intestinal dryness and constipation. This product is sweet, salty and cold in nature, and can enter the large intestine to clear heat and moisten the intestine to relieve constipation. For internal heat, intestinal dryness and constipation, it can be used equally with Fructus Cannabis and Fructus Trichosanthis. Usage and dosage: decocted,10 ~15g; It is used for relaxing bowels and should not be decocted for a long time. Pay attention to loose stool caused by qi deficiency. Abstract of ancient books 1. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica: "Treating green blindness, red eyes and white eyes, red eyes and pain, tears." 2. "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Cassia seed, in addition to wind and heat dissipation. Ordinary people don't close their eyes and cry, and their eyes are sore. Most of them belong to wind-heat internal prostitution, so that blood can not go up, and treatment will immediately expel them; Accordingly, bitterness can dissipate heat, saltiness can soften hardness, sweetness can replenish blood, and weak gas can float, and common cold can lift it, so it can cure eyes, collect tears and relieve pain. It can also be used as a pillow to treat head wind. " Modern research 1. Chemical composition: This product mainly contains anthraquinones such as rhein, emodin, aloe emodin, cassia seed element, orange seed element, cassia seed element, and other napyrrolidones such as cinnamoside, cinnamone and cinnamlactone. In addition, it also contains sterols, fatty acids, sugars, protein, etc. 2. Pharmacological action: the water extract, alcohol extract and alcohol extract of this product all have the effect of lowering blood pressure; This product can reduce plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride; Its injection can make thymus atrophy in mice and enhance the phagocytic function of phagocytes. The anthraquinone contained in it has a mild laxative effect; After alcohol is removed from the alcohol extract, it can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, Staphylococcus citri, Bacillus diphtheriae, Bacillus megaterium, Salmonella typhi, Bacillus paratyphi, Bacillus paratyphi B and Escherichia coli. Its water extract has inhibitory effect on skin fungi in different degrees. 3. Clinical study: 24 cases of hyperlipidemia, 20-30g of Semen Cassiae, decocted in water (not less than 500ml), with good curative effect (journal of traditional chinese medicine, Liaoning, 199 1, 4: 5); Semen Cassiae 30g, decocted in water, fumigated and washed vulva and vagina, each treating 22 cases of fungal vaginitis, with good curative effect (Jiangsu Medicine, 1975, 6: 45).