Potted Cassia cassia grown on the balcony with both flowers and medicine

This horse's hoof is definitely bright, and it is famous for its ability to see. There are also grass cassia Ming and Shi cassia Ming, all of whom have the same merit. -- Compendium of Materia Medica

Cassia, an annual sub-shrubby herb, whose seeds are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine Cassia seed, has the function of clearing the liver, clear eyes and defecation. Main treatment of hypertension, headache, vertigo, acute conjunctivitis, corneal ulcer, glaucoma, carbuncle ulcers and other diseases.

Brief introduction of plants

Cassia, also known as horseshoe cassia and grass cassia, is native to tropical America and provinces south of the Yangtze River in China, mostly born on hillsides, wilderness and beach sand. Cassia is extremely vigorous in the plant community, the requirements of the soil is not strict, sunny gentle slopes, ditches, roadsides, can be cultivated, like warm and humid climate, the more sufficient sunshine is more conducive to its growth.

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Once upon a time there was an old scholar who had an eye disease before he was sixty years old. When he walked on crutches, people called him a blind scholar. One day, a southern drugmaker walked past him and saw some weeds in front of the door and asked if the seedlings were for sale. The old scholar asked in turn, "how much do you pay?" The drugmaker said, "I'll pay as much as you want." The old scholar thought: these grasses are quite valuable, so he said, "I won't sell them." The drugmaker left when he didn't sell it.

Two days later, the southern pharmacist came again and still wanted to buy the grass. By this time, the grass in front of the blind scholar had grown to more than three feet high, and the stem was already covered with golden flowers. when the old scholar saw that the pharmacist came to buy it again, he felt that the grass must be valuable, but he was still reluctant to sell it.

In autumn, the weeds bear diamond-shaped, grayish green and shiny seeds. As soon as the old scholar smelled it, the smell of the grass seed was quite fragrant, and he thought it must be a good medicine, so he grabbed a handful and drank it in water every day. After a long time, the eye disease is better, and you don't have to walk with a pestle and crutch.

Another month later, the drugmaker came to buy weeds for the third time. Seeing that there were no weeds, he asked the old scholar, "have you sold the weeds?" The old scholar told the story that weed seeds can cure eye diseases. After hearing this, the drugmaker said, "this grass seed is a good medicine. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bought it three times." It is called 'cassia seed', also known as' grass cassia Ming', can cure a variety of eye diseases, long clothing can be clear-sighted. "

Later, because the old scholar often drank the tea brewed by Mingzi, he was still in good health until he was in his eighties, and he once recited a poem: "the fool is not blind in his eighty eyes, and he does not have a good eye for stars at night, but only because he has been drinking for many years."

Planting method

Choose the unfried, full-grained and moth-free cassia seed and soak it in about 50 °warm water for 24 hours.

Fill the flowerpot with soil, apply fertilizer, and dig several small pits with a depth of about 5 centimeters at a certain distance.

Take out the soaked cassia seed, wipe dry, sprinkle it into the pit, flatten it a little, and water it.

Remember to water in time and keep the soil moist during the growth of Cassia.

The main value of Cassia seed

1. Clear eyes

Cassia seed can also be used in ophthalmology, and its name itself indicates this. "decision" means to make a decision and dredge it, and it means to break through the darkness and see the light again. Mash it with cassia seed and take it with boiled water on an empty stomach every morning. "see the night light in a hundred days".

2. Defecation

In the hot season, the body sweats more, water loss is faster, easy to appear dry stool knot, constipation. At this time, drinking water with cassia seed can play a good role in eyesight, defecation and intestinal cleaning.

3. Purging liver fire and calming liver yang

Cassia seed has a strong effect of purging liver fire and can treat liver fire or liver yang headache and vertigo.

4. Lowering blood pressure

Cassia seed can also be used to treat high blood pressure. It depends on Mingzi (stir-fried light yellow) 20g / 30g, honeysuckle 10g / 15g, Hangzhou chrysanthemum 15g, brewing tea with boiling water. One dose a day can be consumed for a long time.

5. Prevention of hot colds

If you have a hot cold. Appropriate mulberry leaves, bamboo leaves and peppermint can be crushed, boiled in a pot with chrysanthemums or soaked in boiling water, which can play a certain role in the prevention and treatment of throat pain, wind-hot cold and other symptoms.

It should be noted that the medicine of cassia seed is cold and cold, and it is not suitable for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency cold, spleen deficiency diarrhea and hypotension.