This herb is especially good for conditions of the eyes. it will brighten them and relieve pain, congestion, itchiness, redness, or sensitivity to light when caused by wind-heat conditions. It can also be used when there is headache along with some of the above conditions in cases of liver yang rising. It is useful when there is either chronic or acute constipation accompanying liver yin deficiency. it has been shown to be effective in lowering cholesterol and reducing blood pressure.
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What is Foetid Cassia seed and its application?
seminal trace...Semen Cassiae.Juemingzi.10:1Extract.Dry Seeds of Cassia obtusifolia L. or Cassia tora L.Semen Sennae,Foetid Cassia seed,Juemingzi,chakramarda,chakunda,Jue ming zi,Prapanna....
Cassia seed (Juemingzi)
Pharmaceutical Name: Semen Sennae
Botanical Source:Dry Seeds of Cassia obtusifolia L. or Cassia tora L.
Common Name: Foetid Cassia seed,Juemingzi,chakramarda,chakunda,Jue ming zi,Prapanna
Source of Earliest Record: Shennong Bencao Jing
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The seeds are gathered in autumn and dried in the sun.
Habitat:west china,ningxia,neimeng,shanxi,xinjiang,qinghai province,etc.
Properties & Taste:
Sweet, bitter and slightly cold in nature, it acts on liver and large intestine channels. The moist quality, sweet flavour and the cold property of the herb clear the heat and the liver fire, nourish Yin, improve vision, and ease the bowels by clearing the heat and nourishing the large intestine. Therefore, this herb is used for treating conjunctival congestion caused by liver-fire, blurring vision due to deficiency of Yin and constipation caused by intestinal dryness.
1.To clear heat in the liver and brighten the eyes; Remvoing intensive heat from the liver and improving vision, moisturizing intestine and eazing the bowels.
2.To dispel wind and clear heat;
3.To moisten the intestines and move feces
Indications & Combinations:
1.Upward disturbance of liver fire or invasion of exogenous wind and heat manifested as red, swollen and painful eyes and photophobia. Cassia seed (Juemingzi) is used with Chrysanthemum flower (Juhua), Mulberry leaf (Sangye), Capejasmine (Zhizi) and Prunella spike (Xiakucao).
2.Constipation due to dryness in the intestines. Cassia seed (Juemingzi) can be used alone.
For treating heat accumulation in large intestine, constipation due to intestinal dryness, it is used in combination with the drugs for relieving dryness and loosening the bowels, such as trichosanthes fruit, bush-cherry seed, etc.
3.Hyperactivity of liver yang manifested as dizziness, vertigo and blurred vision. Cassia seed (Juemingzi) is used with Uncaria stem (Gouteng) and raw Oyster shell (Muli).
4.Deficient yin of the liver and kidneys manifested as blurred vision and cataracts. Cassia seed (Juemingzi) is used with Flattened milkvetch seed (Shayuanzi), Tribulus fruit (Baijili), Grossy privet fruit (Nuzhenzi) and Wolfberry fruit (Gouqizi).
5.For treating conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain, dizziness and headache caused by the flamming-up of the liver-fire, it is used in combination with the drugs for clearing liver-fire and heat, such as gentian root, prunella spike. For treating blurring vision due to Yin deficiency, it is used together with wolfberry fruit and dodder seed to nourish liver and improve vsision.
6.Treat High Blood Pressure: dried and powdered the cassia seed, drink with hot water plus sugar,3 grams 3 times daily; or plus cassia seed 15grams with Prunella spike 10grams,1 solution daily,30 days period could treat high blood pressure.
7.Treat conjunctivitis: mix cassia seed 6grams,Ramose Scouring Rush Herb 9grams,Dendranthema Flower 4.5 grams,boiling in hot water and taken 1 solution daily prove god effects.
8.Skin diseases, and leprosy:Seeds and leaves are used for skin diseases, and leprosy. Leaf decoctions (made by adding 1 part leaves to 10 parts water) given in two ounce doses to children, removes fevers during teething. The herb also eases skin itch and eruptions when it is given mixed with lime juice.
Dosage and Administration:
10-15g.The herb should not be over decocted if it is used to loosen bowels.
Scientific References:
1.What is Foetid Cassia seed and its application?
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Claims: Information this web site presented is meant for Nutritional Benefit and as an educational starting point only, for use in maintenance and promotion good health in cooperation with a common knowledge base reference...Furthermore,it based solely on the traditional and historic use or legend of a given herb from the garden of Adonis. Although every effort has been made to ensure its accurate, please note that some info may be outdated by more recent scientific developments......
Pharmakon Warning: The order of knowledge is not the transparent order of forms and ideas,as one might be tempted retrospectively to interpret it; it is the antidote....(Dissemination,Plato's Pharmacy,II.The Ingredients:Phantasms,Festivals,and Paints;138cf. Jacques Derrida.).
And as it happens,the technique of imitation,along with the production of the simulacrum,has always been in Plato's eyes manifestly magical,thaumaturgical:......and the same things appear bent and straight to those who view them in water and out,or concave and convex,owing to similar errors of vision about colors, and there is obviously every confusion of this sort in our souls.And so scene painting (skiagraphia) in its exploitation of this weakness of four nature falls nothing short of witchcraft (thaumatopoia), and so do jugglery and many other such contrivances.(Republic X,602c-d;cf.also 607c).
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seminal trace...Semen Cassiae.Juemingzi.10:1Extract.Dry Seeds of Cassia obtusifolia L. or Cassia tora L.Semen Sennae,Foetid Cassia seed,Juemingzi,chakramarda,chakunda,Jue ming zi,Prapanna....
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