Psyllium seeds are sweet and cold in nature, entering the kidney, bladder, liver and lung meridians, functioning as a diuretic, seeping dampness and stopping diarrhea, clearing the liver and eyesight, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and is a commonly used medicinal herb.

1, diuretic effect: normal people take 10g of psyllium decoction internally, there is diuretic effect. Animal experiments show that psyllium can make water, sodium chloride, urea and uric acid discharge increase and diuretic effect. However, there are reports that normal people and rabbits serving psyllium decoction has no obvious diuretic effect. Psyllium seeds also have no diuretic effect.

2, other effects: psyllium decoction on rats and dogs have diarrhea. On feeding cholesterol to make the serum content of rabbits, ovary leaf psyllium oil can make its cholesterol content decreased rapidly; but the oil on the normal rabbits did not reduce the serum cholesterol level of the role.

Expanded Information:

According to the different methods of concocting is divided into psyllium, fried psyllium, salt psyllium, wine psyllium, concocting stored in dry containers, salt psyllium, wine, psyllium sealed. Psyllium is sealed. Place in a cool dry place, moisture-proof, moth-proof.

Psyllium is suitable for the crowd: internal injuries, labor and tiredness, yang qi subsidence, kidney deficiency, essence slippery and no internal dampness and heat is prohibited.

Kidney qi deficiency, avoid using with light seepage medicine.

The therapeutic effect of psyllium: psyllium flavor sweet, light, slightly cold; to the kidney, bladder, liver, lung meridian; the quality of slippery and downward li.

It has the effect of clearing away heat and inducing diuresis, brightening the eyes and expelling phlegm.

It is used in the treatment of dysuria, gonorrhea, hematochezia, edema and swelling, jaundice, summer-dampness diarrhea and dysentery, redness and opacity of the eyes, phlegm-heat cough.

Psyllium is used in the following ways:

1. Psyllium is used in the treatment of dampness and heat, urination and astringent pain, and is often used in conjunction with mouton and talc.

2. It is mainly used for solid symptoms; such as edema in kidney deficiency, it can be used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Cinnamon, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, and so on.

3. It can be used as a single ingredient for treating damp-heat diarrhea in mild cases, and can be used with Poria, Poria, Ze Xie Di, Coix Seed in heavier cases.

4. It can be used for eye redness, swelling and pain, or eye blurred, such as liver fire caused by eye redness, swelling and pain, can be used with chrysanthemum, cassia seeds, green box.

5. It can be used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Semen Cuscutae if the eyes are dimmed and tearing in the wind is caused by deficiency of liver and kidney.

6. It is more appropriate to be used for coughing with lung-heat, and can be used together with almonds, tangerine root and soursop to dissolve phlegm and stop coughing.

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