2. Psyllium efficacy and function
Psyllium Psyllium What is the use of psyllium?
Psyllium plant Plantago ovata, also known as plantain, is a perennial herb in the family of Psyllium. Growing in the mountains, roadsides, flower gardens, riverside and other places.
Alias: five roots of grass, plantain, shrimp toadstool, pig's ear spike, phoenix eyes in front of the eyes, plantain. Taste: sweet; light; slightly cold in nature. Meridian: Lung meridian; liver meridian; kidney meridian; bladder meridian. Functions: Clearing heat and inducing diuresis; stopping diarrhea by seeping dampness; brightening the eyes; expelling phlegm. Indications: adverse urination; gonorrhea; edema and distension; summer dampness and diarrhea; redness and opacity of the eyes; phlegm-heat cough and asthma. Usage and dosage: For internal use, decoct 5-15g in soup, or in pills or powder. External Use: Appropriate amount, wash with water or apply with powder. Ecological environment: Grows in the mountains, roadsides, flower beds, vegetable beds, ponds, riversides and other places. Resource Distribution: Distributed throughout China. Herbal Source: The seeds of Plantago ovata and Plantago ovata, family Psyllidaceae. Harvesting and Storage: Cut off the yellow ripe fruit spikes one after another in June-October, dry them in the sun, rub out the seeds, and remove the impurities. Place in a ventilated dry place, moisture.
Contraindications
1. Anyone who has internal injuries, labor exhaustion, Yang Qi subsidence, kidney deficiency, essence slippery and no internal dampness and heat, take with caution. 2. "Materia Medica Jing Shu": internal injuries, labor exhaustion, yang qi subsidence of the disease, are not appropriate to use, kidney qi deficiency, avoid and light seepage of the same medicine. 3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": It should be avoided by people with kidney deficiency and cold. 4. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Changshan is used to make."
What are the benefits of drinking plantain
Plantain is very widely used in our country, so the name is also a variety of ways, such as lichen, cow's tongue and so on are. Chinese medicine believes that plantain is cold, belonging to a kind of Yin medicine. Take the method is very simple, can be directly brewed with boiling water, about half an hour later you can take, has a very good diuretic, antidiarrheal and expectorant and eyesight and so on the role of the body, if the body appeared in the edema, summer wet or double red eyes and greed coughing, you can also be the plantain soaked water to drink to treat the situation.
Want to understand the efficacy of plantain after drinking water, then first need to figure out what the nutrients contained in plantain, after taking what effect on the body. From the point of view of modern medicine, psyllium contains a variety of chemicals, such as psyllium acid, adenine, psyllium mucopolysaccharides, fatty oils, psyllium glycosides, choline and a variety of sugars. In addition, the latest scientific research has also found that the extracts in psyllium have a certain inhibitory effect on cancer and also sarcoma, which can effectively protect the health of the body.
In Chinese medicine, the main effect of psyllium is to reduce swelling, stop diarrhea, pro-heat, stopping the band, fever, and the treatment of dampness. In addition, plantain is more often used to treat a variety of blood and dampness-heat type of disease, common diarrhea, immediately, bleeding, female menstruation, sore throat, toothache, earache and hemorrhoids, etc., can be effective in restoring the body's health.
Psyllium has a lot of benefits for the body after taking,
1, psyllium has expectorant cough after taking the role of the airways become more large and slow, so if the body has a variety of chronic bronchitis or whooping cough these diseases, take psyllium can be very good to promote the body's recovery;
2, psyllium has certain Diuretic effect, so for cryptogenic nephritis has a good therapeutic effect;
3, plantain for the stomach and intestines also has a certain role, into the body can promote intestinal fluid secretion, but this is temporary;
4, if there is a case of diarrhea in children, plantain soak and drink also has a very good effect.
5, plantain also has a certain resistance to pathogenic microorganisms, can well inhibit the body inflammation, for a variety of jaundice hepatitis, mouth and tongue, hemorrhoids, dysentery, and mumps have a good therapeutic effect.
6, the general population is suitable for taking plantain, but if the patient's body belongs to the essence of slippery disregard, then it is recommended not to take, to avoid harm to the body.
What can plantain cure
Sexual flavor and function Gan, cold, to the hand of the sun, yangming meridian. It is used for diuresis, clearing heat, brightening the eyes, expelling phlegm, and is used for urinary incontinence, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, blood in the urine, jaundice, edema, hot dysentery and diarrhea, epistaxis, eye redness and pain, sore throat, cough, and skin ulcers.
Plantain is a flavorful wild vegetables, in the northeast of China is indeed known as "cartwheel vegetables", in the northeast of China cartwheel vegetables are generally mid-May to early June flavor is the most beautiful, the practice is also very simple, I sentence below to introduce: to use just grow "cartwheel vegetables", wash it clean, and then wash it. ", will be cleaned and put into boiling water for 15 minutes out of the pot, into the cool water and then wash, hand wringing clean after you can plate, to be dipped in the northeast sauce to eat. This method is impermanent meditation make when I went to the northeast of the friend's home and friends learned, I was eating when I feel the flavor is very good. In the south of China, there are also edible plantain, Ningbo Zhoushan people eat this Wenzhou with plantain soup to fire.
Psyllium cure gout effect
Western medicine for gout, side effects. With psyllium almost no side effects, and the effect is good. The method is: whole grass, fresh, about 15 grams per day, decoction water as tea.
The efficacy and role of plantain
The efficacy and role of plantain
The efficacy and role of plantain
Chinese medicine believes that plantain leaves are sweet and cold in nature. It can clear heat and diuresis, clear the liver and eyesight, dispel phlegm and cough, and stop diarrhea by seeping dampness. It is suitable for oedema caused by dampness-heat internal depression; urinary tract infection with frequent urination, urinary urgency, urinary pain; diarrhea and bacillary dysentery due to summer heat; eye redness and swelling due to liver heat, fear of light and tearing, and blurred vision.
Plantain is also known as plantain, cow beet, field spinach, and its leaves are called plantain leaves.
According to the analysis, each hundred grams of plantain leaves contain 4.0 grams of protein, 1.0 grams of fat, 11.0 grams of sugar, 5.85 milligrams of carotenoids, 0.09 milligrams of thiamine, 0.25 milligrams of riboflavin, 23 milligrams of vitamin C, 309 milligrams of calcium, 175 milligrams of phosphorus, 25.3 milligrams of iron. According to recent research reports, Plantago ovata not only has significant diuretic effect, but also has obvious expectorant, antibacterial and antihypertensive effects. It can act on the respiratory center and has strong cough suppressant power. It can enhance the secretion of tracheal and bronchial mucus, while the expectorant effect.