Cassia tea that is good for middle-aged and elderly health

Recently in the newspaper, there was Mr. Li He said that he suffered from chronic eye disease when he was young, and later benefited from effective remedies. He has no blindness or deafness in his 80s. His back is straight, and his feet are windy when he walks. He also has a good eye and a healthy body, flying needles and lines, and outperforming young girls. This makes people strange, and ask them for the secrets of health and eye care. He said: “I grow Cassia in the yard every year, and we drink Cassia tea every day, all year round.” It is planted in fields and courtyards, with a height of 1 to 2 meters. The leaves are alternate, even pinnately compound leaves, open day and night, and open small yellow flowers in summer. The flowers fall into slender pods. The seeds are called cassia seeds, which are rhombus-shaped, yellow-brown, smooth and shiny. my country’s earliest pharmacopoeia, “Shen Nong’s Materia Medica”, listed cassia seed as the top grade in medicine, saying that it treats various eye diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cassia seeds are sweet, bitter, salty, and slightly cold in nature. Returns liver, kidney, large intestine meridian. It has the functions of clearing the liver and benefiting the kidney, dispelling wind and improving eyesight, diluting water and moistening the intestines, and relieving heat and detoxification. Cassia seed is an essential medicine for the ancients to treat eye diseases such as redness, swelling and pain, and blurred vision. Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that cassia seeds contain cassia, cassia lactone, chrysophanol, emodin, rhein, emodin anthrone and vitamin A substances. It can improve retinal blood supply, protect the optic nerve, eliminate visual fatigue, prevent myopia, presbyopia, cataract, night blindness, conjunctivitis, retinitis, optic atrophy and other eye diseases. It also has the functions of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, lowering cholesterol, preventing and treating vascular sclerosis, resisting platelet aggregation and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. This product can also relax the bowels and laxatives. It is a good product for the treatment of middle-aged and elderly constipation. Some people who want to lose weight regard it as “the holy medicine for weight loss”.

The production of cassia tea: Put the cassia seeds in the pot, stir fry with slow fire until there is a popping sound, when you smell the aroma, take it out of the pot, let it cool, and store it in a bottle for later use. 1 small handful (6-9 grams) of fried cassia seeds per use, brew with boiling water as a tea, refill the water while drinking, and discard it when the color and taste are all faded. 1 time per day. Year-round drinking can delay aging. But those with loose stools should use it with caution.