cassia seed
This product is the mature seed of Cassia obtusifolia, an annual leguminous plant, or Cassia obtusifolia, also known as Cassia obtusifolia.
Sexual taste and meridian tropism are sweet, bitter, salty and slightly cold. Entering the liver, kidney and large intestine.
Efficacy of clearing liver and improving eyesight, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, and removing wind and heat.
"Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica" lists Cassia seed as the top grade, saying that it "governs green blindness, eye obscenity, red skin, white film, red eyes and tears. Take all your clothes off and be intellectual man fit. " "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said that it "helps liver qi and benefits essence; Apply water at the end, reduce swelling and toxicity, stick to the temple to treat headache, and stick to the brain and heart to stop nasal flooding; As a pillow, it will cure the head wind, and it will definitely be better than black beans. " According to the Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines published by Guangzhou Army, Cassia seed can "clear liver, 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 its treatment of dizziness, beriberi, edema, tuberculosis and chest pain. Chinese Materia Medica, compiled by state administration of traditional chinese medicine in recent years, describes its wide application, which states: "Clearing liver and tonifying kidney, improving eyesight, inducing diuresis and relaxing bowels. Indications: red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears, green blindness, passerine, headache and dizziness, dim 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 a- hydroxyl group, which can synthesize complex with metal elements, and has great influence on the absorption of metal elements. Modern clinical use of cassia seed to treat hyperlipidemia has achieved satisfactory results. Cassia seed can be decocted in water or made into tablets. Cassia seed is commonly used in folk to stir-fry yellow powder instead of tea, which has the health care function of preventing and treating diseases.
Clinical application 1: It is used for the symptoms of red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears, and cyanotic cataract. Symptoms such as red eyes, swelling and pain, shame and tears are caused by liver-fire disturbance or wind-heat stagnation. Cassia seed can not only clear away depressed fire in liver and gallbladder, but also disperse wind and heat, so it is an important medicine for treating red eyes and swelling and pain. Wind-heat is often equated with cicada skin and chrysanthemum; For patients with liver fire, it is often combined with Gentiana scabra, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Prunella vulgaris.
2. Green blindness cataract is mostly caused by liver and kidney deficiency. Cassia seed can clear liver and improve eyesight, and it is often used with liver and kidney nourishing drugs such as Shayuan Tribulus terrestris, Ligustrum lucidum, Lycium barbarum and Radix Rehmanniae to treat green blindness and cataract. 3. Runchang laxative effect can treat dry stool. 4. In recent years, patients who have been used in bed for hypertension and present symptoms such as hyperactivity of liver yang and dizziness are often used equally with Uncaria rhynchophylla and raw oysters.
Pharmacological action 1: lowering blood pressure; 2. The role of pathogenic microorganisms; 3. The effect of lowering serum cholesterol and triglyceride; 4. Draining action; 5. It has an oxytocin effect on uterine contraction.
Toxic and Side Effects Adding different proportions of Semen Cassiae to the nutritionally complete food will reduce the weight of rats with the increase of drug proportion. Clinical use of this product orally reduces blood lipid. After taking the medicine, there are 9% cases with abdominal distension, diarrhea and nausea at the initial stage, but it can disappear by itself, which does not affect the continued medication.
Purposes of baking
This product has a slightly stronger intestine-sliding effect, which can be slowed down after frying, and it is crispy and easy to crush and decoct out effective components.
This product is the mature seed of Cassia obtusifolia, an annual leguminous plant, or Cassia obtusifolia, also known as Cassia obtusifolia.