🌾Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Cassia Seed (Quyet Minh Tu)
Senna obtusifolia
About Cassia Seed (Quyet Minh Tu)
Cassia Seed (Quyet Minh Tu) (Senna obtusifolia) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Eye Health, Constipation, High Blood Pressure, and Liver Support. The seeds are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Senna obtusifolia (Chinese senna, American sicklepod or sicklepod) is a legume in the genus Senna, sometimes separated in the monotypic genus Diallobus. It grows wild in North, Central, and South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and is considered a particularly serious weed in many places. It has a long-standing history of confusion with Senna tora and that taxon in many sources actually refers to the present species.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Seeds · internal