Cassia seed is the dried and mature seed of Cassia Panicum or Cassia obtusifolia, a leguminous plant. Cassia seed is also called Cassia, Myrica rubra, Yangjiao, Equisetum equisetum, Crocodile bark, Crocodile bean, Pseudo mung bean, Horseshoe seed, Senecio scandens, Crocodile bean, Wild mung bean, Pig bone, Crocodile bean, Crocodile bean with thin leaves, Crocodile bean and Crocodile bean. It tastes bitter, sweet and cool, and has the functions of clearing liver and purging fire, expelling wind and removing dampness, tonifying kidney and improving eyesight. There is a band of the same name in Japan, Cassia seed. In addition, cassia seed is also the name of an online novel.

Medicinal efficacy

Chemical constituents include emodin, chrysophanol, emodin methyl ether, cassia obtusifolia, cassia obtusifolia and its glycosides.

Bitter and slightly cold.

1 classic: salty and plain.

② Don't record: it tastes bitter and sweet, slightly cold and nontoxic.

3 "Materia Medica": slightly bitter and slightly sweet, flat and slightly cool.

④ China Pharmacopoeia 20 10 Edition: sweet, bitter, salty and slightly cold. Liver and large intestine meridians entered.

Efficacy of medicinal materials

Clearing heat and improving eyesight, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Used for red eyes, astringent pain, shame, tears, headache, dizziness, blurred vision and constipation. Liver, kidney and large intestine meridians entered. It has the effect of losing weight. Can be used for treating wind-heat red eye, green blindness, passerine, hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, and habitual constipation.

Suitable symptoms and people of cassia seed herbal tea

1) Cassia seed can be paired with other herbal teas, which has a good detoxification and greasy effect. It can achieve the effects of clearing away heat, calming the liver, lowering blood lipid and blood pressure, moistening the intestines and relaxing bowels, improving eyesight and benefiting eyes. People who are prone to eye fatigue, such as modern "TV people" and "computer people", might as well drink often, but it is best to drink less at night.

Reminder: when frying, the aroma overflows and frying is not allowed.

2) Cassia seed herbal tea: directly brew 15g single-flavor fried cassia seed or crushed cassia seed into tea for drinking until the tea is colorless. Drinking cassia seed tea for the elderly is not only helpful for defecation, but also has health care functions such as improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure and regulating fat. For the elderly with yin deficiency and less blood, 9 grams of Lycium barbarum, 5 grams of Chrysanthemum and 5 grams of Radix Rehmanniae can be added and soaked together; If the elderly are qi-deficient, it is advisable to add 3 grams of sun-dried ginseng by soaking clothes.

Efficacy: clearing liver and purging fire, nourishing yin and improving eyesight, and lowering blood pressure and lipid.

3) Semen Cassiae herbal tea and honey drink: fried Semen Cassiae 10 ~ 15g, honey 20 ~ 30g. Mashing Semen Cassiae, adding 300 ~ 400 ml of water, decocting for 10 min, adding honey and mixing well, and taking it once in the morning and evening. Has the effects of moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, and can be used for treating patients with prostatic hyperplasia and habitual constipation. It is also suitable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and habitual constipation.

Matters needing attention in taking cassia seed

Pregnant women should not take it, and those with weak spleen and stomach and insufficient qi and blood should not take it.

Please keep it indoors in a cool and dry place to prevent children from taking it by themselves.

dosage

The dose was 9 ~ 15g.

Various exhibitions

1. Classic: cure green blindness, red and white eyes, red eyes and pain, tears, long-term service will benefit you.

2. "Do not record": cure lips.

3. "Theory of Medicinal Properties": Benefiting the five internal organs, except liver and family fever.

4. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": help liver qi and benefit water; Apply it at the end, reduce swelling and detoxify, treat temple headache, and stick it to the brain to stop nosebleed; When the pillow is better than black beans, it cures the head wind and improves eyesight.

5. "Herbal Supplement": detoxification of snake venom.

6. "Raw Herbal Prescription": Treating children's five prickly heat and rubbing tinea.

7. Outline of Medical Forest: Purifying Evil Water.

8. "Hunan Pharmacology": improving eyesight and diuresis. Treat dizziness, beriberi, edema, lung abscess and chest pain.

9. Handbook of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Guangzhou troops: clearing liver and improving eyesight, diuresis and relaxing bowels. Treat hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hypertension, infantile malnutrition, night blindness, wind-heat eye pain, and habitual constipation.

10. Textual research of materia medica: it is clear that the taste is salty and blood is removed, and the cold of qi is used to treat heat. Therefore, it is not suitable to treat the green blind skin tear caused by heat. If it is caused by qi cold, it will lead to various eye syndromes.