Word: hemp seed

Note: má?zǐ?

Interpretation:

①A crop, resembling sesame seeds, with branches more than 1 meter high. Cultivated in two ways: for dense planting, it grows high, with fewer forks, and is cut in the fall during the ripening season, dried in the sun, and then made to separate its seeds from the stalks by human power. The culms are soaked in water for a few days, and then the skin is peeled off, i.e., it becomes hemp. For thinning, it is more forked and is mostly used for seed collection.

②The seeds of the crop hemp, edible (high food, monkeys especially like), oil, dumplings, medicinal use, as a feed for birds such as parrots. And honey at the same time will cause eye disease, pregnant women can not eat hemp seeds. Example of high hemp seeds (can not say eat hemp seeds).

Su Zi Alias

Purple Su Zi, Black Su Zi, Blue Su Zi

Source

This product is the dried ripe fruit of Perillafrutescens (L.) Britt. of the family Labiatae. The fruits are harvested in the fall when ripe, impurities removed and dried in the sun.

Su Zi - Traditional Chinese Medicine

Preparation

Su Zi: remove impurities, wash and dry. Stir-fry Su Zi: take clean Su Zi, according to the clear stir-fry method (Appendix II D) stir-fry until there is a popping sound.

Traits

The product is ovoid or spherical, about 1.5mm in diameter, the surface is gray-brown or gray-brown, with slightly elevated dark purple reticulation, the base is slightly pointed, there are gray-white dotted pedicel marks. The pericarp is thin and brittle, easily crushed. Seeds yellowish white, testa membranous, cotyledons 2, whitish, oily. Crushed with soursop plant form - perilla (7 pictures) aroma, taste slightly pungent.

Taste and flavor attribution: pungent, warm. Attributed to the lung meridian.

Functions and Indications

Subdues qi and eliminates phlegm, calms asthma and moistens the intestines. Used for phlegm congestion, cough and asthma, intestinal dryness and constipation.

Dosage: 3-9 grams.

Storage: in a ventilated dry place, moth-proof.