Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main drainage and rise of the liver belong to wood in the five elements and spring in the four seasons, that is, the liver corresponds to spring. Spring is the season when all things grow, and liver qi is as vibrant as spring, so it is advisable to nourish the liver in spring. Because in spring, the liver should be hairy and stretched like a tree, so the liver is susceptible to external interference, such as damp heat, heat poisoning and so on. There may be redness, head swelling and headache, various liver inflammation, yellowing of eyes, skin, and urine. Liver disease occurs frequently in the spring, and it is necessary to seize the opportunity to treat liver disease in time, and actively nourish and protect the liver.
Chinese medicine cassia seeds are good for nourishing the liver. Cassia seeds, also known as "also pupils", contain a variety of vitamins and rich amino acids, fats, carbohydrates, etc., and their health care functions are increasingly valued. Cassia seeds have the functions of clearing liver fire, dispelling rheumatism, benefiting kidneys and eyesight, and often drink cassia tea, which can help make blood pressure normal, stool smooth, and old eyes do not flower.
Clinical experiments have proved that drinking cassia tea can clear the liver and eyes, prevent blurred vision, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, reduce cholesterol, etc., and have a good effect on the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension; and cassia seeds are rich in vitamin A and zinc, which can prevent night blindness and avoid zinc deficiency in children. In addition, the function of cassia tea to moisten the intestines and laxatives can also solve the problem of modern people's stomach and constipation, can treat dry stools, and help smooth defecation.
It is worth noting that in outpatient clinics, patients often complain about diarrhea, constipation, dizziness and other symptoms after taking cassia seeds, so how should cassia seeds be used in the end, and how to correctly use cassia seeds to nourish the liver and protect the liver?
One: the basic introduction of cassia seeds
Cassia seed, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the dried mature seed of the legume cassia or cassia minor, and is known for its discerning work. Ripe fruit is harvested in autumn, dried in the sun, seeds are laid and impurities removed. Cassia seeds taste bitter, sweet, salty, slightly cold, into the liver, kidneys, large intestine meridians, laxative, lipid-lowering eyes, treatment of constipation and hyperlipidemia, hypertension. Clear liver and eyesight, water laxative, have a diarrhea effect, lower blood pressure and lower blood lipids.
It is used for red and astringent pain, shyness and tears, headache and dizziness, dark eyes, constipation knots. Although cassia seeds are not tonics, they are listed as "superior" medicinal herbs in the Shennong Materia Medica, believing that they can "help liver qi, improve refined water, cure head wind, and be willing to see diseases... Long service light body". "Porridge Spectrum" Yun: "Cassia seeds end in porridge to cure blindness." ”
Two: the relevant compatibility of cassia seeds
Cassia seeds can not only clear the liver and gallbladder fire, but also evacuate the wind and heat, and ask for medicine for the treatment of red swelling and pain. Wind and heat are often used with cicada clothes and chrysanthemums; liver fire, often with gentian, skullcap, summer dry grass and so on. Illiteracy and internal impairment are mostly caused by liver and kidney insufficiency. Cassia seeds are liver-clearing and blind, and are often used with liver-nourishing and kidney medicines such as Sand Garden Tribulus Terrestris, Female Virgins, Goji Berries, Raw Land, etc., to treat blindness and internal disorders. In addition, cassia seeds also have a laxative effect, which can treat dry stool knots. In recent years, it has been clinically used in hypertension and presents symptoms such as hepatic and yang disturbance, dizziness and dizziness, and is often used with hook vines and raw oysters.
Three: Cassia tea solves the four difficulties
1． Stool is hard to understand
Baopuzi Yun: If you want to live forever, the intestines are always clear, if you don't die, there is no in the intestines. "It means that the stool is smooth, the spirit is clean and healthy, and it can prolong life." Researchers have confirmed that long-term constipation is one of the causes of human aging, and cassia contains ephrodiol, anthraside and other components, which have a regular diarrhea effect, which can eliminate gastrointestinal stagnation, prevent toxin absorption, prevent the occurrence of diseases, and thus play a role in disease prevention and health care.
2． Blood pressure is difficult to stabilize
Hypertension is one of the main causes of death, and the mechanism of cassia in the prevention and treatment of hypertension is related to its softening of blood vessels. It's not hard to get high blood pressure down, it's hard to stabilize and maintain it at the right height. Brain tissue damage is great when blood pressure rises and falls, which is at risk of increased cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Often drink cassia tea, only need to take half of the conventional dose of antihypertensive drugs, you can stabilize blood pressure at normal levels, dizziness, headache, irritability, insomnia and other symptoms also disappear or reduce.
3． Blood lipids are difficult to lower
Long-term use of hypolipidemic and cholesterol-lowering drugs has many side effects. Drinking cassia tea is safe and effective in lowering blood lipids.
4． Vision is difficult to protect
Over forty years of age, due to the weakness of the ciliary muscle contraction in the eye, the convexity of the lens cannot be adjusted, so the vision (especially the near object) is reduced. With the increase of age, the metabolism of substances in the body is disordered, the microcirculation of the eye is impaired, and cataracts occur due to opacification of the lens, resulting in continuous decline in vision and even blindness. Drinking cassia tea can improve lipid metabolism, activate microcirculation, prevent and delay the occurrence of senile cataracts, and maintain better vision.
Fourth, the consumption method of cassia tea
Pick the cassia seeds of the full, uniform, yellow-brown ones, wash and place them in the pot, fry (remove the cold) until they are slightly yellowish, dry, slightly aromatic, take out and cool, put them in the bottle as tea material, and set aside. Put each 20 grams into the cup, flush into boiling water, cover the cup lid, after about 20 minutes, the color of the tea gradually deepens from light yellow, and when the aroma overflows, it can be drunk. When 1/3 of the water is left, add boiled water. When the water is refilled, it is dark yellow, as thick as amber, and has a distinctive fragrance. The leftovers are stored in the cup, and the next day the liquid is as thick as glue, and water can still be added to the drink until the colorless time is stopped. Those who have the habit of drinking tea, it is more effective to drink it with tea.
Fifth, the use of cassia tea attention!
(Top priority)
Cassia drug cold, external wind cold, internal injury cold, spleen and stomach deficiency, kidney and yang deficiency and other patients should not be single taste a large number of long-term use, especially should not use raw products. Cassia seeds contain anthraquinones and oil compounds such as riveting, loose stools, abdominal pain, and patients with chronic enteritis and chronic diarrhea should be used with caution; cassia seeds can promote the secretion of gastric juice, so patients with gastric ulcers should not be taken in large quantities for a long time.
Cassia seeds have a certain antihypertensive effect, and patients with low blood pressure should not take a large number of long-term. Modern pharmacology has confirmed that cassia seeds can excite the smooth muscles of the uterus and cause uterine contractions, so pregnant women and those with threatened miscarriage should be used with caution. In addition, cassia seeds contain compounds such as ephroheol and emodin, which can cause intestinal lesions or cause refractory constipation when taken for a long time.
Sixth, recommend several tea drinks and porridge
●Cassia honey drink
Sautéed cassia seeds 10 to 15 grams, honey 20 to 30 grams. Mash the cassia seeds, add 300 to 400 ml of water and cook for 10 minutes, pour into honey and stir well, take in the morning and evening, 1 dose per day. Cassia seeds are fried, have a taste similar to coffee, aromatic, have the effect of flat liver and kidneys, with honey can moisten the intestines and laxative, suitable for prostatic hyperplasia and habitual constipation people to drink.
●Cassia tea
Goji berries 10 g, chrysanthemum flowers 3 g, fried cassia seeds 20 g. Put the goji berries, chrysanthemums, cassia seeds into a lidded cup at the same time, brew in boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes, drink instead of tea, generally can be brewed 3 to 5 times. This tea can clear the liver diarrhea fire, nourish the yin and the eyes, reduce blood pressure and regulate fat, suitable for liver fire and yang hyper-yang stroke sequelae, dizziness, light-headedness, irritability, increased blood pressure, red tongue to drink.
●Chrysanthemum cassia porridge
10 grams of chrysanthemums, 10 to 15 grams of sautéed cassia seeds, 50 grams of japonica rice, rock sugar to taste. Sauté the cassia seeds and chrysanthemums, remove the residue to get the juice, put in the japonica rice to cook the porridge, when the porridge will be cooked, add rock sugar, and then cook for 1 to 2 boils to eat. 1 time per day. This porridge can clear the liver and eyes, reduce blood pressure and laxatives, and is suitable for people with high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, and habitual constipation.
Expert introduction
Graham
Doctor of Medicine, Chief Physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Supervisor of Master's Degree Students
The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Head of the Department of Hepatobiliary Diseases (Gastroenterology I).
He is good at treating viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic ascites, autoimmune liver disease, alcoholic liver disease, fatty liver disease, cholecystitis, gallstones, acute and chronic pancreatitis, peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding, colitis, functional gastrointestinal disease and the treatment of tumors and miscellaneous diseases, especially good use of Traditional Chinese medicine methods to save severe hepatitis, three steps and six methods to reverse gastric precancerous lesions, Traditional Chinese medicine umbilical therapy for functional gastrointestinal diseases, Traditional Chinese medicine time therapy for constipation, and provide traditional Chinese medicine health care guidance for the majority of patients.
Sitting hours: Hepatobiliary Disease Clinic: Tuesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning; Physical Examination Department Outpatient Clinic: Saturday morning; Yangming Clinic: Wednesday morning; Honggutan National Medical Hall: Monday afternoon
Author: Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2020 Master's Degree Class 1 Graduate Student Liao Zhengyi
Guidance expert: Ge Lai'an, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Correspondent: Zhong Shifang Shen Desen
Edit: Xiong Shu
Reviewer: Xie Tao
Issued: Wan Hongxin
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