There are many kinds of weeds growing in the countryside. Most of these weeds are useless pests in the eyes of farmers. Having these weeds will only harm the crops in the field and affect the yield, so the farmers will usually get rid of these weeds as soon as they see them. However, some of the younger weeds are brought home by farmers to feed pigs or cattle, but it is not known that some weeds have other value than feeding pigs, and they are also valuable. Just as this weed looks like mung beans on the mountain, it is often used by farmers to feed pigs, but in fact, this plant that looks like mung beans has very valuable medicinal value.
Because this plant looks like mung beans, people call it fake mung beans. In fact, its scientific name is cassia seeds, which is a kind of Chinese medicine. Cassia plants are small, similar to common weeds, and are often mixed with field weeds. The most notable feature of cassia seeds is its long, flat pods, which look like mung beans, and it is this pod that people have given it the name of a fake mung bean.
Secondly, it got its name because cinnamon can be eaten. Cassia seeds are mainly grown in Sichuan and Guangdong, where food used to be scarce, and people would look for all kinds of wild vegetables to eat, cassia seeds were one of them. Although the current conditions are good, cassia seeds taste really good, so people often cook it with pork. But elsewhere, cassia seeds are relatively small, so there will be one or two near the fields. Cooking with them is uneconomical and people will use them to feed pigs.
Cassia seeds are also the most important medicinal value, it belongs to a cool and moisturizing food, eating cassia seeds can clear the liver and bowel movements, if the blood lipid and blood sugar levels are high, you can often eat cassia seeds. Cassia seeds differ from other medicinal herbs in that it is actually a food, just like wheat and soybeans, with no side effects on the human body. In the former southern countryside, cassia seeds can be said to be a good medicine and food for farmers.
Cassia seed has been widely used in traditional Chinese medicine because it has good efficacy, and the cultivation of cassia seed is not difficult, it is a relatively low-cost medicinal material. In recent years, the state has begun to encourage farmers to grow medicinal herbs, and cassia seeds are one of them.