Cassia seeds are derived from the dried mature seeds of the legume cassia or cassia minor.
Cassia
Cassia seeds are mainly produced in Anhui, Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.
Stone cassia
Cassia seed is the seed of the herb, stone cassia is a shell medicine, not a mineral medicine, the two names are similar, in order to distinguish the two, cassia seeds are often called grass cassia. Because the alias of grass cassia is also called grass cassia, it is generally not written on the prescription, otherwise it is very easy to distinguish whether it is grass cassia or grass cassia. And because the seeds of cassia seeds are diamond-shaped and shaped like horseshoes, they are also called horseshoe cassia.
Cassia seeds
Cassia seeds are sweet, bitter, salty, slightly cold, returned to the liver and large intestine meridians, and are the clear heat and diarrhea gunpowder of the antipyretic medicine.
Cassia seed mainly into the liver meridian, the liver is open to the eye, bitter cold can clear the heat, so it has the effect of clearing the liver, used to treat the liver fever of the eyes red swelling pain, shame and tears, wind and heat attack of the headache of the eyes, as well as liver and kidney yin deficiency of the visual objects faint, dark eyes.
Cassia seeds bitter cold and clear heat, sweet cold and moist, and into the large intestine meridian, so it can clear the heat and moisten the intestine laxative, often with hemp seeds, melon seeds, raw land and other heat and moisturizing intestinal drugs used, for the treatment of hot knot constipation or dry bowel constipation. For those with mild intestinal dryness and constipation, they can be decocted in single-flavored water or brewed tea.
In addition, cassia seeds are bitter cold and clear heat, into the liver meridian, can clear the liver fire, calm the liver yang, used to treat the hepatic yang hyperactivity of the head of the dizziness, often with hook vine, oysters, chrysanthemums, summer dry grass and other medicines. Chrysanthemum antihypertensive tablets made of cassia seeds and chrysanthemums can be used to treat hypertrophic hypertension.
Because long-term frying will weaken the laxative effect of cassia seeds, it is not advisable to fry for a long time, which is different from the mineral medicine cassia that must be fried for a long time to make the active ingredients more soluble.
Cassia sub-cold discharge, easy to cause diarrhea, so spleen deficiency diarrhea is contraindicated.
Cassia seeds are similar in name to stone cassia, and the efficacy has both similarities and differences. The similarities are: both have the effect of clearing the liver and eyes, leveling the liver and the latent yang, and can be used to treat the headache, dizziness, redness and pain of the liver and yang or the liver fire disturbance. The differences are: cassia seeds sweet, bitter, salty, slightly cold, return to the liver, large intestine meridian, longer than clear liver, wind, mostly used for liver through the real fire of the eye of the red swelling and pain, and has the effect of moisturizing the intestine laxative; stone cassia salty cold weight, into the liver meridian, good at calming the liver yang, and can nourish the liver yin.