Herbal name: castor bean
This product is the dried and mature seed of Ricinus communis L. of Euphorbiaceae. Picking ripe fruits in autumn, drying in the sun, shelling and collecting seeds.
medical information
Properties This product is oval or oval, slightly flat, with a length of 0.9 ~ 1.8 cm and a width of 0.5 ~ 1 cm. The surface is smooth, with grayish white and dark brown or yellowish brown and reddish brown flower stripes. One side is flat, the other side is convex, and the flat side has 1 convex seed ridges; A caruncle with a grayish white or light brown protrusion at one end. The seed coat is thin and brittle. The endosperm is thick, white, oily, thin, odorless and slightly bitter.
Sexual taste, sweet meridian, pungent and flat; Toxic. Into the large intestine and lung meridian.
Indications: detumescence, detoxification, antidiarrheal, and resolving hard mass. Used for carbuncle, sore throat and dry stool.
Usage and dosage: appropriate amount for external use, mashed and applied to the affected area, or made into pills for oral administration.
Castor oil is also medicine.