Psyllium tea can be drunk raw.

Psyllium tea belongs to the plantain family and is a perennial herb, also known as guanyin grass. This grass is found in most parts of China. It grows on roadsides and in the corners of fields. It blooms and produces seeds from June to July every year. Its seeds are called plantain.

Both the grass and seeds of plantain are used as medicine. Psyllium tea is an indispensable tea for people with enlarged prostate. To drink it, put the plantain in a teapot and you can just brew it with hot boiled water to drink.

Expanded Information:

Plantain Tea's Role:

1, Antipathogenic Microbiological effects:

Plantain herb water infusion in the test tube on concentric trichophyton, woolly small spores of ringworm, stellate Nucella, etc. have different degrees of inhibition. Plate hole-punching method proved that Staphylococcus aureus was highly sensitive to plantain, S. sonnei dysentery bacillus was moderately sensitive, and Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and typhoid fever bacillus were mildly sensitive.

2, on the stomach, intestinal role:

Pavlovian small stomach and gastric fistula of the dog instillation of plantain aqueous extract or infusion 0.5g/kg, gastric secretion of gastric juice has a bi-directional regulation; on the hairy fruits of ruta alkaloids caused by gastric secretion of gastric juice and epinephrine caused by gastric secretion of gastric juice, are antagonistic effect.

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