How should Cassia Seed be soaked in water?

Cassia seed is a relatively common plant medicinal material. Drinking Cassia seed tea regularly can not only play a role in health care, but also effectively prevent physical diseases. Since Cassia seed is a cold medicine, it can effectively relieve gastrointestinal constipation, reduce fat, and lower blood pressure. Middle-aged and elderly people can drink some Cassia seed tea appropriately, and can pair it with other flower teas.

How to drink Cassia seeds in water

Ingredients: 10 grams of wolfberry, 3 grams of chrysanthemum, 20 grams of cassia seed.

Preparation method: Put wolfberry, chrysanthemum and cassia seed into a large covered cup at the same time, brew with boiling water, cover, and start drinking after 15 minutes.

Usage: Use as tea, drink frequently, generally brew 3 to 5 times.

Efficacy: Clears the liver and reduces fire, nourishes yin and improves eyesight, lowers blood pressure and blood lipids.

Generally speaking, it is best to fry Cassia seeds before soaking them in water. Most of the Cassia seeds sold in pharmacies are cooked Cassia seeds, but both raw and cooked Cassia seeds can clear the liver, improve eyesight and lower blood pressure. Raw use can also moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, clear away liver and gallbladder fire, and disperse wind-heat, making it an important medicine for treating red, swollen and painful eyes. But overdose can cause diarrhea.

The effect of drinking Cassia seed soaked in water

First, it clears away heat and improves eyesight, and can prevent and treat eye diseases such as myopia and senile cataracts.

Second, it moisturizes the intestines and promotes bowel movements. It is used for red and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tearing, headache and dizziness, blurred vision and constipation. It enters the liver, kidney and large intestine meridians.

Third, it can invigorate blood circulation, lower blood pressure, clear the liver and benefit the kidneys. It is suitable for people with hypertension, cerebral thrombosis and fever symptoms.

Fourth, it has the effect of weight loss. Cassia seed can remove fat and waste from the body, especially the large intestine. Drinking Cassia seed water has a better weight loss effect on constipation-type obesity.

Can drinking cassia seed in water cure constipation?

Drinking Cassia seeds soaked in water can treat constipation. In fact, the principle of Cassia seeds in relieving constipation is a catharsis effect, but it is not as irritating as Western medicine. Cassia seed has a cold nature and is a medicine that clears heat and nourishes yin. It can be used to relieve heat constipation.

The specific usage is: put 10 grams of Cassia seed in a teacup, soak it with boiled water, and it can be drunk after 30 minutes. You can add water repeatedly to brew it until it has no taste.

But one thing that needs to be noted is that Cassia seed is cold in nature, so it should be used with caution in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency, spleen deficiency diarrhea and low blood pressure. In addition, since Cassia seeds contain compounds such as chrysophanol and rhamnosine, long-term use may cause intestinal lesions. Therefore, it is not recommended to drink Cassia seeds soaked in water for a long time.