What are the effects of chrysanthemum seeds?

Chrysanthemum seeds are a wild herb, an annual plant. Many traditional Chinese medicines contain this plant and have great medicinal value. Many people who suffer from acute dysentery while working in the fields will just grab a chrysanthemum seed, chew and eat it, and the dysentery may stop soon. If some skin is scratched by a sharp object, you can also rub the chrysanthemum seeds, squeeze out the juice and apply it to the wound, which can quickly stop bleeding and reduce swelling. The effects of chrysanthemum seeds are far more than these two. What are the effects of chrysanthemum seeds?

Chrysanthemum chinense is an annual herb, 0.3~2m tall, with densely covered velvety stellate hairs throughout the plant. The leaves are alternate, heart-shaped, 7-18 cm in diameter, with long pointed tips, coarsely serrated edges, palmate veins, and long petioles. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, with 5-lobed calyx, green in color; there are 5 petals, which are yellow, inverted, with flat and concave apex and fused to the stamen tube at the base; there are many stamens, with the base of the filaments fused into a tube; there are 15 to 20 carpels, arranged in a flat spherical shape, with the tip protruding like an awn. The fruit is hemispherical and shaped like a millstone, densely covered with star-shaped hairs, and forms separate fruits when ripe. Seeds black. The flowering period is from July to October, and the fruiting period is from October to November. Effects of Chrysanthemum seeds: Treat red and white dysentery, cataract, carbuncle, scrofula.

Effects of chrysanthemum seeds: 1. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sunflower, with a light smell and taste, is light and slippery, which is yang, so it can open the orifices and promote lactation, reduce swelling and facilitate abortion. Its roots, leaves and seeds have the same function. It can promote bowel movements, eliminate water vapor, facilitate abortion, and treat dysentery." 2. Shennong's Herbal Classic: "It can treat cold and heat in the five internal organs and six bowels, weight loss, five types of stranguria, and promote bowel movements." 3. Bielu: "It can treat women's milk retention." 4. Yaoxing Lun: "It can treat five types of stranguria, breast swelling, and lactation." 5. Bencao Yanyi: "For those who suffer from carbuncle, furuncle, toxic heat attacking the inside, and have not yet discharged pus, swallow three or five seeds with water, and then the orifices will be formed and pus will come out." 6. Bencao Tongxuan: "It can reach all orifices." 7. Bencao Hui: "It can relieve the placenta." 8. Bencao Jing Jizhu: "Sunflower seed juice can relieve Sichuan pepper poison."

Main efficacy

1. Treat eye diseases. Add 1 liter of chrysanthemum seeds, grind into powder, put into slices of pork liver, moxibustion until cooked, and cut into fine powder. Take a small amount each time, with rice soup. Take 3 times a day.

2. Unfamiliar cataract. Use white sesame seeds, remove the shells, put them into thin slices of pork liver, slowly roast them until cooked, grind them into powder, add vinegar and make them into pills as big as walnuts. Take 310 pills each time with warm water. Another recipe: Put ramie seeds in a bag, steam them, dry them in the sun, grind them into powder, add honey to make them into balls, and take them with warm water.

Other names: sunflower seeds, sunflower seeds, and chrysanthemum seeds.

Source: The dried seeds of Malvaceae, a plant of the Malvaceae family. The roots and leaves of winter mallow are also used for medicinal purposes. Most of them are wild.

Origin: Produced in most parts of the country.

Identification of properties: The dry seeds are kidney-shaped, concave in the center and convex at both ends. The diameter is about 1.5 to 3 mm. The surface is gray-brown, one end is long and pointed, and the other end is short and slightly round. Hard texture. When you break open the shell, you will find a yellowish-white kernel that is rich in oil. Odorless, light taste with a slightly sweet taste.

Main ingredients: Seeds contain fatty oil and protein. The flowers contain anthocyanins. Fresh winter mallow contains 6.8% to 7.4% monosaccharides, 4.1% to 4.6% sucrose, 4.5% to 4.8% maltose, and 1.2% starch.

Functions and effects: diuretic, laxative and lactating.

Processing: Pick out impurities and use raw.

Nature and flavor: sweet, cold.

Meridians: Enters the large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridians.

Functions: diuretic, laxative and lactation-promoting.

Indications: constipation, gonorrhea, edema, lack of milk in women, and swollen and painful breasts.

Clinical application: Winter Globe Seed is sweet, mild, cold and moist in nature. It is a slippery and smooth product that can open the orifices. It can not only facilitate defecation and urination, but also promote lactation and reduce swelling. Its lactation function is similar to that of Akebia and Glehnia littoralis.

1. Used to treat gonorrhea, edema and other diseases. The former is often used in combination with Plantago seed, Lygodium japonicum, etc., and the latter can be used in combination with Poria cocos.

2. Used for constipation, it can be used in combination with peach kernel, Prunus mume kernel, etc. It has the effects of relieving dryness, moistening the intestines, and softening hard masses.

3. It is used for milk obstruction, breast pain and other symptoms. It is often used in combination with pangolin, fenugreek, astragalus, pig's trotter, etc., which has the effect of promoting blood circulation and promoting lactation.

Precautions for use: People with spleen deficiency and loose intestines should not take this medicine, and pregnant women should take it with caution.

Dosage: 6-15g, or in the form of pills or powder.