What Are the Medical Uses of Cassia Angustifolia?

Cassia seed, Chinese medicine name. It is a dry mature seed of leguminous plant Cassia or small Cassia, which is named for its obvious function. The mature fruits are harvested in the autumn, dried, and seeds are removed to remove impurities. Cassia seeds are bitter, sweet and salty, slightly cold, and enter the liver, kidney, and large intestine; moisturize the intestines, reduce fat and eyesight, treat constipation, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. Clearing the liver and eyesight, diversion of water, laxative effect, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids.

Chinese scientific name: Cassia
nickname: Horseshoe Cassia, Cassia Cassia, Fake Mung Bean, Grass Cassia
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae
Head: Rosacea

Branch: Leguminosae
Genus: Cassia
Species: Cassia
distribution area: South of the Yangtze River
Harvest time: autumn
Amount: 9-15g
Poisonous: Non-toxic

Cassia Seed Medicine

Dry ripe seeds of a plant.

Cassia taste

Sweet, bitter, cold, slightly salty.

Cassia Confucian Classics

Return to the liver and large intestine.

Cassia effect

Clear liver and eyesight, moisturize laxative.

Cassia Indication

It is used for redness, pain, shame and tears, headache, dizziness, dullness, and constipation.

Cassia related compatibility

1. Liver eyesight: 1 liter of Cassia seed, 2 liters of Vitex negundo, boiled with 5 liters of wine, and dry at the end. For two drinks per serving, warm water, two servings a day. ("Sheng Huifang")

2. The eyes are red and swollen and painful: Cassia seeds are fried and researched, and two temples are applied, and it is easy to dry, and it is healed overnight. ("Medical Recipes")

3, ringworm sore spread: Cassia seed one or two as the last, into the mercury, light powder a little, the research can not see the star, rub the medicine, and stand. ("Excellent Recipe")

Cassia usage and dosage

Decoction, 9-15g; used for laxative and laxative, not for long.

Cassia taboo

It is not suitable for those with qi deficiency and belching.

Cassia Seed Processing Method

1. Cassia seed: remove impurities, wash and dry.

2. Stir-fried cassia seeds: Take the net cassia seeds and stir-fry them according to the clear-fried method (Appendix IID) until they are slightly bulged and have aroma. Smash when used.

Cassia seed physiological characteristics

Caucasus is an annual, erect, stout herb, 1-2 meters tall. Cassia flowers are yellow, pods are slender, quadrangular prismatic; small cassia plants are smaller and pods are shorter. Born in hillsides, roadsides, and wilderness, he likes high temperature and humid climate. Suitable for growth in sandy loam soil, humus soil or medium fertility soil.

Origin of Cassia

It is cultivated in areas south of the Yangtze River, mainly produced in Anhui, Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.

Cassia related discussion

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "In addition to liver, gallbladder, wind and heat, skin whitening, blue blindness." ^[1]

2. "Chinese Materia Medica" has a wide range of applications, including: "Clearing Liver and Kidney, Clear Eyes, Diuretic and Laxative. Indications are red and swollen and painful, with shame and tears, blue, blindness, headache, dizziness, and dim vision. , Liver cirrhosis, ascites, unfavorable urination, habitual constipation. External treatment of swelling, poison and ringworm. "

3. "The Classic": "Through the treatment of blindness, redness of the skin, red eyes, pain in the eyes, tears, Jiufu benefits Jingguang."

4. "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "Cassia seed, its taste is Xianping," Bei Lu "benefits from bitter sweet and slightly cold and non-toxic. It is salty and watery, sweet and rustic, bitter to relieve heat, and flatten stomach, cold It can relieve yin and relieve heat, and also treats the jujube and liver. It also enters the gallbladder and kidney. The liver is open to the eye, and the pupils are divine light, so the master is blindly kinky, with red skin and red eyes. "Lu" also treats lips and lips. "Bei Jing" Jiufu Yi Jingguang, Yiyin fever, and nourishing liver and kidney qi. "

5. "Materia Medica for Truth": "Cassia, removes heat from the wind. Mortal tears do not end, eye pain is more than endogenous wind and heat, so blood does not go up, cure is to expel; according to this bitterness can relieve heat, salty It can be soft and strong, be able to replenish blood, be weak and airborne, and be able to ascend wind and evil, so it is necessary to treat eyes and tears and relieve pain. It can also be used as a pillow to treat head wind. Anti-recruitment of wind damage, it must be combined with Tribulus terrestris, chamomile, wolfberry, habitat, Ligustrum lucidum, locust fruit, glutinous grass as a subsidy, the victory is even better. That is what it means. "

6. "Materia Medica Justice": "Cassia eyesight is to nourish the liver and kidneys, and to treat the latentness and invigorate the yin is the righteous principle of Pei Ben. Comparable, most pros and cons. "

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