Cassia Tora Seeds

Product Description

Cassia seed is the ripe seed of the annual plant Cassia obtusifolia Linn., or Cassia tora Linn., of the Leguminosae/Fabaceae family. The plant is native to the tropics. It grows wild in India.

This is an upright plant with compound leaves in groupings of six. Bears 20-cm pods which contain many cylindrical seeds. The seeds are also used as a mordant in dyeing. They can also be roasted and ground, used as a coffee substitute.

The seeds of Cassia Tora have been conventionally used throughout the Asian region for several centuries. Its roasted seeds have a favorable flavor, so it is used popularly as a tea in Korea. Cassia tora L. has been also prescribed in oriental herb medicine to treat night blindness, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and constipation

The seeds of Cassia Tora are rhombohedral and brown in color, about 30 to 50 in number. The plant bears flowers in the rainy season and fruits in the winter.