Can Cassia Seed Cure Constipation?

Cassia seed is a very common Chinese medicinal material. This kind of Chinese medicinal material can mainly achieve the effect of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, so that your eyesight will become better. Especially for patients with poor eyesight, it can achieve an auxiliary treatment effect. However, this medicine does not have such a good therapeutic effect on the common condition of constipation.

1. Compendium of Materia Medica: "It can eliminate wind-heat in the liver and gallbladder, white film on the skin, and amblyopia."

2. The Chinese Materia Medica states that it is widely used, saying: "It clears the liver and benefits the kidneys, improves eyesight, promotes diuresis and relieves constipation. It is mainly used to treat red, swollen and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tears, amblyopia, nystagmus, headache and dizziness, blurred vision, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, urinary problems, and habitual constipation. It is also used externally to treat swelling, poison, and ringworm."

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

4. "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "Cassia seed, its taste is salty and flat, "Bie Lu" adds bitter, sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. Salty brings water, sweet brings earth, bitter can relieve heat, flatness harmonizes with stomach qi, cold can replenish yin and relieve heat, it is the right medicine for the liver of foot Jueyin. 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 eyesight, lust, red skin and white film, red eyes and painful 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 relieving heat, and greatly replenishing the liver and kidney qi."

5. "Bencao Qiuzhen" (Bencao Qiuzhen): "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."

6. Bencao Zhengyi: "Cassia seed improves eyesight, nourishes the liver and kidneys, and is used to calm the latent and replenish yin. It is a correct treatment for strengthening the root, which is not comparable to the warm and pungent treatments that dissipate wind and the cold and cool treatments that reduce heat to stop symptoms. It is the most beneficial without any harm."

2. Red, swollen and painful eyes: fry and grind Cassia seeds, mix with tea and apply to both temples. Replace it when it dries. The eyes will be healed overnight. (《Medical Prescriptions Excerpts》)

2. For spreading tinea sores: Grind 1 liang of Cassia seed into powder, add a little mercury and talcum powder, grind until no stars are visible, rub the powder on the sore, and the sore will heal immediately. ("Miraculous Remedy")