What are the effects and functions of Celosia argentea seeds?
Celosia argentea seeds, also known as wild cockscomb, wolf-tail flower, and tail cockscomb, are the seeds of an annual herbaceous plant of the genus Celosia in the Amaranthaceae family, distributed almost throughout the entire country. Used medicinally, they have the effects of clearing heat and draining dampness, clearing the liver and improving vision, and lowering blood pressure, and have therapeutic effects on conditions such as liver-heat red eyes, eye opacity and film, blurred vision, and liver-fire dizziness. Let us now take a look at the effects and functions of Celosia argentea seeds!
Medicinal Effects of Celosia argentea Seeds
[Nature and Flavor] Bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature.
[Meridian Entry] Liver meridian.
[Effects] Clears the liver, improves vision, and removes eye opacity; mainly treats liver-heat red eyes, eye opacity and film, blurred vision, and liver-fire dizziness.
Medicinal Combinations of Celosia argentea Seeds
1. Combined with cassia seeds, fructus leonuri, and antelope horn, etc., it can treat red, swollen, and painful eyes, eye opacity and film, and blurred vision caused by liver fire flaring upward, as in Qingxiang Pill.
2. Combined with raw rehmannia, scrophularia, and plantain seed, it can treat blurred vision due to liver deficiency and blood heat, as in Qingxiang Pill.
3. Combined with dodder seed, cistanche, and Chinese yam, etc., it can treat liver and kidney depletion with dim, dry eyes, as in Lufeng Huanjing Pill.
Related Discussions on Celosia argentea Seeds
1. Ben Jing Feng Yuan: Celosia argentea seeds treat wind-heat eye diseases and have the same effect as cassia seeds. Their ability to treat wind itch and body itching and heat within the skin is because they can disperse wind-heat from the blood vessels of the Jueyin meridian.
2. Ben Cao Zheng Yi: Celosia is of the same kind as cockscomb. Its seeds are bitter, cold, and slippery, and are good at washing away stagnant heat, so all wind-heat and liver-fire eye conditions are treated with them.
3. Yao Xing Lun: Treats liver heat-toxin rushing to the eyes, red opacity, green blindness, and opacity swelling. It mainly treats malignant sores and scabies itching, and treats genital insect sores.
4. Dian Nan Ben Cao: Improves vision. Treats gritty tearing that is difficult to open, and white opacity covering the eyes.
Medicinal Prescriptions of Celosia argentea Seeds
1. To treat wind-heat tearing eyes: Celosia argentea seeds 5 qian, stewed with chicken liver and taken.
2. To treat night blindness and eye opacity: Celosia argentea seeds 5 qian, black jujube 1 liang. Brewed with boiling water and stewed, taken before meals.
3. To treat unstoppable nosebleed: pour Celosia argentea seed juice into the nose.
4. To treat head wind pain: Celosia argentea seeds 5 qian to 1 liang. Decoction taken orally.
Clinical Applications of Celosia argentea Seeds
1. Qingxiang Decoction: Celosia argentea seeds 15 g, glauber's salt (taken dissolved) 4.5 g, wild jujube seed 12 g, buddleia flower and cassia seed 9 g each, poria 12 g, white hyacinth bean 15 g. Decoction taken orally. In the formula, Celosia argentea seeds improve vision and remove opacity and serve as the sovereign drug. Treats chronic uveitis.
2. Qingxiang Pill: Celosia argentea seeds, blue fruit, bitter orange (stir-fried), rhubarb (stir-fried), chrysanthemum, and honey-fried licorice 60 g each; cassia seed, coptis, fructus leonuri, asarum, ephedra, and plantain seed 45 g each; carp gall bladder and chicken gall bladder (shade-dried) 1 piece each. Antelope horn 90 g. Grind into fine powder, and form pills with refined honey. Each pill the size of a parasol tree seed; take 20 pills each time, swallowed with tea water after meals, 3 times daily. In the formula, Celosia argentea seeds clear liver heat, improve vision, and remove opacity, and serve as the sovereign drug. Treats toxic heat of the liver and heart, nail opacity entering the black of the eye, and also treats all internal and external eye diseases.
3. Eight-Seed Pill: Celosia argentea seeds, plantain seed, schisandra fruit, goji berry, kochia fruit, fructus leonuri, cassia seed, tingli seed (stir-fried), ophiopogon (with core removed), asarum (with sprouts removed), cinnamon bark (with coarse bark removed), raw rehmannia, red poria, and oriental waterplantain (with soil removed), saposhnikovia (with forks removed), and scutellaria (with black core removed) 30 g each. Grind the above into fine powder, form pills with refined honey, the size of parasol tree seeds; take 20 pills each time, increasing to 30 pills. Swallow with clear tea, or warm rice water is also acceptable, 3 times daily. In the formula, Celosia argentea seeds improve vision and remove opacity and serve as the sovereign drug. Treats wind-toxin qi eyes, opacity and film covering the eyes, regardless of duration, as well as internal and external obstructive eye diseases.