Cassia seed is the dried and mature seed of Cassia panicum miliaceum or Cassia obtusifolia in Leguminosae. Cassia seed is also called Cassia obtusifolia, Myrica rubra, Claw Horn, Cassia equisetifolia, Huanpupi, Crocodile Bean, Pseudomung Bean, Horseshoe Seed, Senecio Senecio, Crocodile Bean, Wild Green Bean, Pig Bone Ming, Crocodile Bean, Crocodile Bean with Fine Leaves, Crocodile Bean and Crocodile Bean. It tastes bitter, sweet and cool, and has the functions of clearing liver fire, expelling wind and dampness, tonifying kidney and improving eyesight. Japan has a band of the same name, Cassia seed. In addition, Cassia seed is also the name of an online novel.

Medicinal efficacy

The chemical constituents include emodin, chrysophanol, physcion, obtusin, obtusifolin and their glycosides.

Sexual taste is bitter and slightly cold.

① Classic: salty and flat.

② Bielu: Bitter and sweet, slightly cold and nontoxic.

3 "Materia Medica": slightly bitter and slightly sweet, flat in nature 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. Treat wind-heat red eye, green blindness, passerine, hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis and habitual constipation.

Suitable symptoms and population of cassia seed herb tea

1) Cassia seed can be matched with other herb tea, which has a good detoxification and greasy effect. It can achieve the effects of clearing away heat, calming the liver, lowering blood fat and lowering blood pressure, relaxing bowels, improving eyesight and benefiting eyes. Modern "TV family", "computer family" and other people who are prone to eye fatigue may wish to drink often, but it is best to drink less at night. 　

Reminder: when frying, the aroma overflows, and it is not allowed to be fried. 　

2) herb tea of Semen Cassiae: Stir-fried Semen Cassiae or crushed Semen Cassiae15g, and make tea directly 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 morifolium and 5 grams of Radix Rehmanniae can be added and soaked together; If the elderly have qi deficiency, it is advisable to add 3 grams of sun-dried ginseng with soaking clothes.

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

3) Cassia herb tea with honey drink: fried cassia seed10 ~15g, honey 20 ~ 30g. Mash cassia seed, add 300 ~ 400 ml of water, decoct for 10 minute, pour honey and mix well, and take it twice 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 deficiency of spleen and stomach and deficiency of 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 dosage is 9 ~15g.

Various expositions

1."Classic": Treating green blindness, eyes are red and white, eyes are red and painful, tears come out, and long-term service will benefit you.

2. "Don't record": treat lip and mouth.

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

4. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": help liver qi and benefit water; Apply it at the end, reduce swelling and toxic substances, treat headache at the temple, and stick it to the brain and heart to stop epistaxis; Being a pillow is better than black beans, treating head wind and improving eyesight.

5. "Supplement to Materia Medica": detoxification of snake venom.

6. "Raw Herbs and Herbs": Treat children's five miliaria and rub tinea.

7. Compendium of Medical Forest: purging evil water.

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

9. Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines of Guangzhou Army: Clearing liver and improving eyesight, promoting 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 on Materia Medica: It is clear that the taste is salty to remove blood, and the gas is cold to treat heat. Therefore, it is not appropriate to treat the skin tears of green blindness caused by heat, if it is caused by gas and wind-cold.