Jie Zi - Indian Mustard Seed【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80095601

【Macroscopic Features】
White jie zi: Sub-spherical, 1~1.6mm diameter, seed coat is dark yellow to brownish-yellow; a few are reddish-brown. Using a magnifier, the surface of seed has a slight reticular pattern, with obvious spotted hilum. Enlarged in water, the seed coat peels off and 2 cotyledons can be seen, there is a fold along the main vein, radicle is posited between 2 cotyledons. Dry pieces have no odor, taste like oil, then acrid and spicy. After being crushed and moistened, it produces special strong acrid stench.
Yellow jie zi: relatively small, 1~2mm diameter. Externally yellow to brownish-yellow, few are dark reddish-brown. After crushed and watered, it produces special strong acrid odor.

【Properties】Acrid, warm

【Channels (meridians) entered】Lung 

【Functions】
Warms the lung, removes phlegm, promotes qi, dissipates stasis, frees channels, relieves pain. Apply to cough due to cold phlegm-retention, chest swelling and pain, phlegm stagnation of channels, joint numbness and pain, phlegm-damp oozing in body, yin furuncle and swelling pain.