Cassia leguminous annual herb or dry mature seeds of Cassia Cassia small. Also known as Cassia Cassia, Yang Ming, croissants, horseshoe Cassia, also pupil, dog feces beans, fake green beans, water chestnut son, Senecio, celery decision, okra, wild peas, pig out, Zhushi blue bean, Egeria Crotalaria night Shiraz, Yang Wei beans. Bitter, sweet and cool, with clear anger, rheumatism, kidney eyesight and other functions.
Cassia bitter, sweet, salty, slightly cold, hepatic, kidney, large intestine; laxative, lowering eyesight, treatment of constipation and high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure. Liver eyesight, diuresis laxative, has laxative effect, lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol.
Chemical Composition: with emodin (emodin), rhubarb phenol (chrysophanol), physcion (physcion), obtusin (obtusin), blunt leaf obtusin (obtusifolin) and glycosides.
Function: heat eyesight, laxative. Mu Chi astringent for pain, the shame out more tears, headache, dizziness, head dark unknown, constipation. Liver, kidney, large intestine. Tropism of taste: bitter, slightly cold. "The Classic": taste salty, flat. Modern research shows that Cassia addition to containing carbohydrates, protein, fat, also contain steroids, rhubarb, emodin, etc., as well as essential trace elements iron, zinc, manganese, copper, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, etc. . Contains emodin, rhein on the human body have asthma, gallbladder, liver, blood pressure effects, and have some anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory effect. Which emodin glucoside, emodin anthrone, physcion, with lower serum cholesterol and cardiac effects. Cassia has a- prime hydroxyl group with the metal complex hormone synthesis, absorption has great influence on the metal element. Cassia modern clinical treatment of hyperlipidemia with little satisfaction, Cassia decoction or made into tablets to take. Common folk Cassia fried yellow at the end, on behalf of the tea, the prevention and treatment of diseases of health care.