Cassia seed is also known as Cassia seed, Cassia horseshoe and fake mung bean. The source is dried and mature seeds of Cassia or Cassia of Millet of Leguminosae. Semen Cassiae is a Chinese herbal medicine, also known as Semen Cassiae, Cortex Phellodendri, Semen Phaseoli, Pseudomung bean, Water chestnut and Senecio scandens. It is a mature seed of cassia obtusifolia, a leguminous herb, and has the functions of clearing liver-fire, expelling wind and removing dampness, tonifying kidney and improving eyesight. In addition to medicinal components, cassia seed also contains many vitamins and rich amino acids, fats, carbohydrates and so on. In recent years, people pay more and more attention to its health care function. The plant morphology is an annual semi-shrub herb with a height of 1 ~ 2m. Pinnate compound leaves alternate; 3 pairs of leaflets, obovate or oblong obovate, 1.5 ~ 6.5 cm long and 0.8 ~ 3 cm wide, with blunt apex, round base, oblique, and sparsely pilose on both sides when young; Stipules conical, caducous. Pairs of axillary flowers; Sepals 5, separate; Petals 5, yellow, clawed; There are 7 fertile stamens, and the lower 3 are more developed; Ovary stipitate and white. The pod is linear. Most seeds are diamond-shaped, light brown and shiny. The flowering period is from July to September, and the fruiting period is 9-165438+1October. It is cultivated in most parts of the country. Location: Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan. Harvest ripe fruits in autumn, dry them and sow them. Trait seeds are prismatic or short cylindrical, with parallel inclined ends, 3 ~ 7 mm long and 2 ~ 4 mm wide. The surface is bluish brown or dark brown, smooth and shiny. One end is flat and the other end is inclined. There are 1 protruding ridge lines on the dorsal and ventral surfaces, and 1 obliquely symmetrical shallow linear concave lines on both sides of the ridge line. Hard and not easy to break. Seed coat is thin, cotyledons 2, yellow. It tastes slightly bitter. Chemical constituents include emodin, chrysophanol, emodin methyl ether, cassia obtusifolia, cassia obtusifolia and its glycosides. The taste is slightly cold, sweet, bitter and salty. Function: clearing away heat and improving eyesight, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Can be used for red eyes, astringent pain, shame, tears, headache, dizziness, blurred vision, and constipation. In addition, this product has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol and blood pressure, and has certain curative effect on preventing and treating arteriosclerosis and hypertension. The dosage of traditional Chinese medicine is 10- 15g. Synonyms include Cassia seed, Yangming (Wupu Materia Medica), Yang Jiao (Guangya), Equisetum equisetum (Tao Hongjing), Huantongzi (True Story of Medicine), Crotalaria (Materia Medica), Pseudomung bean (Herbology of China) and Horseshoe Seed (Herbology of Jiangsu). The compatibility of the medicine is 1, with concha Haliotidis, which can clear away heat, calm the liver and improve eyesight. It is often used for dizziness due to liver heat or hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness, red eyes and headache. 2, with refined grain grass, improve eyesight and retreat, can be used for liver and kidney deficiency, wind and heat ascending, blurred vision, shame and tears. Indications-Cassia seed has the effects of clearing liver, improving eyesight, inducing diuresis and relaxing bowels. Can be used for treating wind-heat red eye, green blindness, passerine, hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, and habitual constipation. 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 essence 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 Addendum: Eliminating snake venom. ⑥ "raw herbs": treating children's five prickly heat and rubbing tinea. ⑦ Compendium of Medical Forest: Purging Evil Water. 8 Hunan pharmacology: improving eyesight and diuresis. Treat dizziness, beriberi, edema, lung abscess and chest pain. Pet-name ruby handbook of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Guangzhou army: 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. "Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica" lists Cassia as the top grade, calling it "treating green blindness, eye obscenity, red skin, white film, red eyes and tears. Take off all your clothes and be a smart man. " "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says that it "helps liver qi and benefits essence qi; Apply clean water at the end, reduce swelling and detoxify, stick to the temple to treat headache, and stick to the brain to stop nasal water; Being a pillow and treating the head wind is definitely better than black beans. " According to the Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines published by Guangjun, Semen Cassiae can "clear liver and improve eyesight, promote diuresis and relieve constipation". Treat hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hypertension, infantile malnutrition, night blindness, wind-heat eye pain, and habitual constipation. Hunan Pharmacology records that it treats dizziness, beriberi, edema, tuberculosis and chest pain. The Chinese Materia Medica compiled by state administration of traditional chinese medicine in recent years describes its extensive application, which points out: "Clearing liver and tonifying kidney, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels. Indications: red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears, green blindness, passerine, headache and dizziness, blurred vision, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, dysuria and habitual constipation. External treatment of swelling and tinea. "Modern research shows that cassia seed contains not only sugar, protein and fat, but also steroids, chrysophanol and emodin, as well as essential trace elements such as iron, zinc, manganese, copper, nickel, cobalt and molybdenum. Emodin and rhein have antiasthmatic, cholagogic, liver-protecting and antihypertensive effects on human body, and have certain antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Among them, emodin glucoside, emodin anthrone and emodin methyl ether have the effects of lowering serum cholesterol and strengthening heart. Cassia seed has-hydroxyl group, which can synthesize complex with metal elements, which has great influence on the absorption of metal elements. Modern clinical application of cassia seed in the treatment of hyperlipidemia has achieved satisfactory results. Cassia seed can be decocted in water or made into tablets. Cassia seed is often used to fry yellow powder instead of tea in folk, which has the health care function of preventing and treating diseases. Clinical observation 100 cases of lowering serum cholesterol. Before treatment, the serum cholesterol was between 484 and 265438 00 mg%, with an average of 246.95438±0mg%. After treatment, it decreased to 1 10 ~ 208 mg%, with an average decrease of 87.9 mg%. After taking the medicine, most cases decreased to different degrees, of which 85% decreased to normal level within 2 weeks, 96% decreased to normal level within 4 weeks, and the total effective rate was 98%. However, in the long-term observation of 5 cases, serum cholesterol gradually increased after stopping taking the drug for some reason, and still decreased after taking the drug again. It is suggested that the lowering of serum cholesterol by this product is temporary, and it needs long-term maintenance to achieve the therapeutic purpose, and how long it needs to be maintained remains to be seen. After taking the medicine, symptoms such as dizziness, headache and fatigue were improved in 85% cases. Preparation and usage: one soup-cassia seed 1, decocted in water and taken twice. Two kinds of syrup-each 100 ml contains crude drug 1.5, 20 ml each time, three times a day. Three tablets-each tablet contains 6 cents of crude drugs, three times a day, five tablets each time. There is no significant difference in curative effect among the three dosage forms. The dosage of cassia seed is closely related to the curative effect, and a small amount (such as oral decoction and daily 5 yuan) can not achieve the curative effect. Side effects: the incidence rate is 9%, mainly abdominal distension, diarrhea and nausea, which are more common in the early stage of taking medicine, and do not affect the continued taking of medicine, but can disappear on their own. The therapeutic mechanism, long-term curative effect and effect on atherosclerotic plaque formation of this product need to be studied. 1. Used for red eyes, swelling and pain, tears due to shame, and cyanotic cataract. Symptoms such as red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears are caused by liver-fire disorder or wind-heat stagnation. Cassia seed can not only clear liver and gallbladder depression, but also disperse wind and heat, which is an important drug for treating red eyes and swelling and pain. Wind-heat is often equivalent to cicada slough and chrysanthemum; For patients with liver fire, it is often used with Gentiana, Scutellaria baicalensis and Prunella vulgaris. 2. Green blindness cataract is mostly caused by deficiency of liver and kidney. Cassia seed can clear liver and improve eyesight. It is often used with drugs for nourishing liver and kidney, such as Fructus Astragali, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Fructus Lycii and Radix Rehmanniae, to treat green blindness and cataract. 3. The effect of relaxing bowels can treat dry stool. 4. In recent years, patients who are bedridden due to high blood pressure and have symptoms such as hyperactivity of liver yang and dizziness are often equated with Uncaria rhynchophylla and oyster. Other uses: Cassia Pillow: The pillow is made of mixed negative wild plants such as Cassia, and Cassia has round particles to massage the head, which can promote blood circulation in the head and enhance memory. It is cool and comfortable in summer and warm in winter. Usually, the double-sided pillow of cassia seed will be additionally filled with buckwheat skin, vacuum cotton and so on. Toxic and Side Effects With the increase of the proportion of cassia seed in nutritious food, the weight of rats will be reduced. Clinical use of this product orally reduces blood lipid. Abdominal distension, diarrhea and nausea occurred in 9% cases at the initial stage after taking the medicine, but they disappeared by themselves, which did not affect the continued use of the medicine. Objective This product has a slightly strong intestine-sliding effect, which can be slowed down after frying. Crispy, easy to crush, easy to fry out effective ingredients.