100% Natural Sortex Cassia Tora Seeds
Specification
Botanical Name | Cassia Tora |
Local Name | Chakvad, Puwad, Chakunda |
Colour | Light Brown ( like coffe ) |
Size | 0.3 to 0.4 cm. |
Ash content | 5 % (max.) |
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Iron | 50 ppm (max.) |
Arsenic | Nill |
E-Coli | Absent |
Packing | 50 kg. Bag packing |
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Family Name | Caesalpinaceae |
Common Name | Foetid Cassia, Tora, Sickle Senna, Sickle Pod, Coffee Pod, Tovara, Chakvad |
Part Used | Seeds |
Habitat | Grows in dry soil throughout tropical parts of India. |
Uses | It is Aperient, Germicide, Mucilaginous & Laxative. Uses : It is used as a coffee substitute & has a maturant & anodyne action. Useful in treating skin diseases like ring worm & itch & psoriasis. |
Product Offered | Seeds |
Properties:
Sweet, bitter and salty in flavor, slightly cold in nature, it is related to the liver, kidney and large intestine channels.
Applications:
It is aperient, germicide, mucilaginous & laxative. It is used as a coffee substitute and has a maturant and anodyne action. Useful in treating skin diseases like ring worm, itch and psoriasis. The alcoholic or vinegar maceration of pounded fresh leaves is used externally to treat eczema & dermatomycosis. Fruit Decoction is used in the treatment of fevers.
Being so bitter and cold as to purge heat and so sweet and salty as to replenish yin (body fluids), this herb can not only clear and purge fire from the liver, but also nourish the liver and the kidneys. As the liver has its orifices open on the eyes and the pupils correspond to the kidneys, this herb is excellent for the improvement of eyesight and can be used for eye ailments of both the excess and deficiency types. It is often used together with self-heal spica (Spica Prunellae), cape jasmine fruit (Fructus Gardeniae), etc., for conjunctivitis (inflammation of the conjunctiva, the mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelids and is continued over the forepart of the eyeball) and photophobia, or intolerance to light, due to fire of excess types in the liver channel.
Certification :
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