Can Cassia Seed and Lotus Leaf Cure Constipation?

Cassia seed and lotus leaf are both relatively common Chinese medicinal materials. They are found in many prescriptions for treating diseases. This is enough to show that these two medicines are widely used. They can also be used to treat constipation, which is the most troublesome thing for people. This situation can only be improved by taking these two medicines for a long time, and it cannot be abandoned halfway.

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."

It is mainly used to treat summer heat, thirst, headache, dizziness, edema, loss of appetite and abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, rectal prolapse, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia, and blood stasis caused by injury.

usage:

1. It is suitable to be used raw to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and it is suitable to be fried and charred to disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding.

2. Fresh ones are good at clearing away summer heat and are often used in combination with fresh Patchouli, fresh Cymbidium orchid, and Watermelon Rind in clinical practice.

3. It can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also promote spleen yang. It is effective in treating summer heat diarrhea and is often used in combination with lentils.

4. In addition, it can also be added to spleen and stomach tonifying medicines for those with spleen deficiency, qi deficiency, and diarrhea.

Lotus leaf is suitable for people who are thin and have weak qi and blood.

[Properties] Contains bioalkali, flavonoids and organic acids.

[Use] Used for summer heat and thirst; spleen deficiency, poor appetite, diarrhea; vomiting blood, epistaxis, bloody stool, and metrorrhagia.

[Usage] Decoction, tea, porridge and rice.