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[Nature and flavor] Sweet, bitter, cold, slightly salty.

[return through meridians] returns the liver and large intestine meridians.

【Effects】Clears the liver and improves eyesight, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements.

[Indications] It is used for red and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tearing, headache and dizziness, blurred vision and constipation.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 9-15g; used for moistening the intestines and relieving constipation, do not decoct for a long time.

[Contraindications] It is not suitable for people with Qi deficiency and loose stools.

【Medical records】

"Ben Jing": "It treats amblyopia, red and white film on the skin of the eyes, red and painful eyes, and tears. Long-term use can improve the essence and brightness."

"Bie Lu": "Treats blue lips and mouth."

"Medicine Properties": "It benefits the five internal organs and eliminates liver heat."

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It helps the liver qi and replenishes essence and water; mix it into powder and apply it to reduce swelling and poison; burn it on the temples to treat headaches, and apply it to the center of the brain to stop nosebleeds; it is better than black beans as a pillow, and it can treat headaches and improve eyesight."

"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can cure snake venom."

"Essentials of Herbal Medicine" says: "It can treat five kinds of malnutrition in children and rub tinea and scabies."

"Medical Collection": "Drain evil water."

"Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": "It clears the liver and improves eyesight, promotes diuresis and relieves constipation. It can treat hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hypertension, infantile malnutrition, night blindness, wind-heat eye pain, and habitual constipation."

【Predecessors release medicine】

"Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "Cassia seed has a salty and neutral taste. "Bie Lu" says it is bitter, sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. Salty tastes like water, sweet tastes like earth, bitterness can dissipate heat, neutralizes stomach qi, and coldness can replenish yin and dissipate heat. It is a proper medicine for the liver of the foot. It also enters the gallbladder and kidney. The liver opens up to the eyes, and the pupil's divine light belongs to the kidney, so it is used to treat blue eyes, lust, red and white membranes on the skin, and red and painful eyes with tears. "Bie Lu" also treats blue lips and mouth. "Ben Jing" says that long-term use can improve the essence and light, which is caused by replenishing yin and dissipating heat, and greatly replenishing the liver and kidney qi."

"Bencao Qiuzhen" says: "Cassia seed can dispel wind and dissipate heat. When tears do not stop and the eye pain does not stop, it is mostly due to wind-heat in the body, which causes the blood to not flow upward. The treatment should be to expel it immediately. The bitterness can dissipate heat, the saltiness can soften the hardness, the sweetness can replenish blood, the weak force and floating qi can also disperse the wind evil, so it is an important medicine for treating tears and pain. It can also be used as a pillow to treat headaches. However, if it is taken too much, it will search for wind too much and cause wind damage. Therefore, it must be supplemented with Tribulus terrestris, chamomile, wolfberry, raw earth, Ligustrum lucidum fruit, Sophora japonica fruit, and Coix lacryma-jobi to achieve better results. This is why it is called Cassia seed."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Cassia seeds improve eyesight, nourish the liver and kidneys, and are used to calm the submerged and replenish yin. This is a correct treatment for strengthening the root cause, which is not comparable to the warm and pungent treatments that dissipate wind, or the cold and cool treatments that reduce heat to stop symptoms. This is the most beneficial treatment with no drawbacks."

American Chinese Medicine Cassia Seed Grass Cassia Seed Raw Cassia Seed Stir-fried Cassia Seed 50g

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Precautions for making Chinese herbal medicine:

1. The medicine jar must be cleaned

When decocting Chinese medicine, the medicinal juice is concentrated due to evaporation of water, and a layer of medicinal scale often accumulates at the bottom and around the medicine pot. If the decocted medicine in the medicine pot is often changed, and the accumulated medicinal scale is not wiped off in time, the medicinal scale will dissolve when the new medicine is decocted, interfering with and reducing the efficacy of the medicine, and even delaying the treatment of the disease. Especially if highly toxic medicines or external medicines that cannot be eaten have been decocted before, it may cause poisoning.

In addition, if the Chinese medicine is not cleaned immediately after each decoction, the scale at the bottom of the medicine pot will become thicker and thicker, and it will easily burn when the medicine is re-decocted, thus losing its efficacy.

2. Whether to cover the medicine

Generally speaking, in order to make Chinese medicine boil thoroughly, it is best to cover it. This is especially true for Chinese medicines containing volatile ingredients, such as mint, patchouli, and perilla leaves, and they should be boiled in a short time to prevent the active ingredients from volatilizing. For some expensive medicines, such as ginseng, deer antler, and wolfberry, the active ingredients should be fully released.