Morphological characteristics of cassia seed
1. cassia is an annual semi-shrubby herb with a height of 0.5-2m. There are many branches in the upper part. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound; The petiole is 2-5cm long; There are 3 pairs of leaflets, the leaves are obovate or obovate-oblong, 2-6cm long and 1.5-3.5cm wide, the apex is round, the base is wedge-shaped, slightly oblique, the lower surface and edge are pilose, and there are 1 strip glands between the lowest 1 pair of leaflets, or there are one gland between the lower 2 pairs of leaflets. Flowers are axillary in pairs, and the uppermost part is aggregated; Total pedicels are extremely short; Pedicel is about 1-2cm long; Sepals 5, obovate; Corolla yellow, petals 5, obovate, long 12- 15mm, with claws at the base; Stamens 10, with 7 stamens, and the apex of 3 larger anthers is narrowed into a bottleneck; The ovary is slender and the style is curved. The pod is slender, nearly quadrangular, with a length of 15-20cm, a width of 3-4mm and a fruit stalk of 2-4cm. Most seeds are rhombic or rhombic, slightly flat, light brown and bright, with 1 linear oblique concave lines on both sides. The flowering period is June-August, and the fruiting period is August 8- 10/October.
2. Cassia obtusifolia is an annual semi-shrubby herb with a height of l-2m. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound; Petiole has no gland, and there are rod-shaped glands 1 leaf between two leaflets on leaf axis; Leaflets 3 pairs, membranous; Petiole length 1.5-2mm; Stipules linear, pilose, caducous; Leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong, 2-6cm long and 1.5-2.5cm wide, with blunt apex and small tip, tapering and oblique base, sparsely pilose above and pilose below. Flowers usually 2 in leaf axils; The total pedicel length is 6- 10mm; Pedicel length l- 1.5cm; Sepals 5, slightly unequal, ovate or ovoid-oblong, membranous, pilose outside, ca. 8mm long; The flower is yellow, with 5 petals, and the lower 2 petals are slightly longer, with a length of 12- 15mm and a width of 5-7mm; Stamens 10, fertile stamens 7; Ovary linear, sessile, covered with white fine hairs, style inflected. The fruit is slender, nearly flat, arched, 15-24cm long, 4-6mm in diameter, and is puberulent. Seeds are numerous, rhombic, grayish green and shiny. The flowering period is June-August, and the fruiting period is September 9- 10/October.
Usage and dosage of cassia seed
Oral administration: decoction, 9- 15g.
Matters needing attention of cassia seed
Use with caution for people with diarrhea and low blood pressure.
① Notes on Materia Medica Classics: Kuai actually makes it. Evil hemp seed.
Efficacy and function of cassia seed
Dispelling wind and clearing heat, detoxifying and promoting diuresis. Main wind-heat cold, influenza, acute conjunctivitis, damp-heat jaundice, acute and chronic nephritis, leukorrhagia, scrofula, boils and furuncles, mastitis. Used for red eyes, astringent pain, shame, tears, headache, dizziness, blurred vision and constipation.
① Classic: Treating green blindness, eyes with red and white skin, eyes with red pain, tears, and long-term service will benefit you.
2 "Don't record": treat lip and mouth.
③ Theory of Medicinal Properties: Benefiting the five internal organs, except the liver and family heat.
4 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": help liver qi and benefit essence 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 Addendum to Materia Medica: Eliminating snake venom.
⑥ "Raw Herbal Medicine": Treat children's five miliaria and rub tinea.
⑦ Compendium of Medical Forest: purging pathogenic 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.
Supplementary prescription of cassia seed
(1) to cure blindness, there is nothing wrong with the eyes and nothing to see, such as seeing in the silk: the horseshoe is two liters, smashed and screened, and served with a porridge. Avoid fish, garlic, pork and spicy food. ("Shen Shen Ji Fang" Jue Ming San)
② Treatment of swelling and pain of red eyes: stir-fry cassia seed, adjust tea, apply to two temples, and dry it easily. It also treats head wind-heat pain. ("Picking Yuan Fang")
③ Treatment of finches: two or two cassia seeds and one or two Kochia scoparia. Apply the medicine, and smash it into powder. Every time after eating, drink porridge to adjust the next money. ("Shenghuifang")
④ Treating eyes and nourishing liver, removing darkness and improving eyesight: one liter of cassia seed and one liter of Vitex negundo (five liters of good wine, boiled wine and exposed to dry). Apply the medicine, and smash it into powder. For each service, adjust 2 yuan with warm water, and take it after eating and lying in bed. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Cassia powder)
⑤ Treatment of acute conjunctivitis: Semen Cassiae and Flos Chrysanthemi each have San Qian, Fructus Viticis and Equisetum equisetum each have two yuan, and they are decocted with water. (Handbook of Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine)
⑥ Treatment of hypertension: cassia seed is five dollars, fried yellow, and decocted in water instead of tea. (Jiangxi Herbs)
⑦ Treatment of infantile malnutrition: Semen Cassiae San Qian, ground into powder, a chicken liver, mashed, a little white wine, blended into cakes and steamed. (Jiangxi Herbs)
⑧ Treatment of tinea: Cassia seed should not be taken as the end, and less water and silver powder should be taken as the powder. Rub the tinea with something first, and then spread it on it. (Su Shen Liang Fang)
Pet-name ruby years of blindness. Grind two liters of cassia seed into powder, take one spoonful each time, take it after meals, and send the porridge.
Attending green blindness, passerine (press: green blindness is normal appearance, but nothing is seen, passerine is night blindness). Use Cassia, Fructus Kochiae, and grind it into powder, and add rice soup to make meatballs, as big as Wuzi. Take 20 or 30 pills each time, and the rice soup will be delivered.
⑾ Eyes are red and swollen. Parch semen Cassiae, grinding, adde tea, mixing, and applying to temples. that medicine will be chan as soon as it is dry, and the swelling will disappear overnight.
⑿ Head wind-heat pain. The treatment is the same as above.
[13] nosebleeds. At the end of the third industrial zone of Cassia seed, add water to mix and apply it to the chest.
[14] tinea and sore spread. Use cassia seed for one, two and three industrial zones. Add a little mercury and calomel, grind it to a fine size, and no mercury star can be seen. Apply medicine after rubbing tinea sore.
⒂ Back sores begin. Use one liter of cassia seed (mashed), one or two raw licorice roots, add three liters of water, boil into one liter, and take it twice.