Plantain is also known as plantain, plantain, plantain, plantain, plantain, synonym ox-ear grass, ox-tongue grass. Guangxi people called pig's belly vegetable, gray basin grass; Yunnan people called clam grass; Fujian people called rice spoon grass; Qinghai people called pig's ear grass; Shanghai people called cattle sweet grass; Jiangsu people called the lawsuit grass; Northeast people called the cartwheel grass. Plantain is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family of Plantagoceae, the whole grass of Plantago lanceolata or Plantago lanceolata. The former distribution throughout the country, the latter distribution of northern provinces. Plantain is mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Henan, Sichuan, Hebei and other places, growing in the fields, roadsides, flower gardens, ponds, riversides, valleys, etc., summer and fall harvested when the fruit is ripe, washed and dried. Psyllium seeds and leaves can be used as medicine.

Component function

Psyllium contains psyllium glycoside, psyllium enolic acid, peach leaf coral glycoside. Seeds contain a lot of mucilage, succinic acid, adenine, psyllium sugar, choline, vitamin C and so on. Research has proved that: psyllium has expectorant cough and antibacterial effect, can make the respiratory tract secretion increased significantly; psyllium seeds have diuretic effect, can increase the amount of urine, promote the excretion of urea, chloride, uric acid and so on.

Effectiveness

Psyllium is sweet and cold in nature. It enters the lung, liver and kidney meridians. It has the function of clearing heat and diuretic, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, detoxifying and clarifying the eyes. It can be used to treat fever and hemorrhagic gonorrhea, summer fever and diarrhea, redness and swelling of the eyes, and coughing due to lung heat. It is especially good at clearing heat and removing toxins, and can be used to treat feverish sores, acute diarrhea and dysentery.

Use

Psyllium is usually used 15-30 grams, decocted with water. Or powdered as pills.

Consumption

Psyllium tea: 100 grams of psyllium, decocted in water, add brown sugar in appropriate amount, drink frequently as tea. Psyllium tea has the effect of clearing heat and diuretic, suitable for frequent urination and urine heat, urinary difficulties, edema and other conditions.

Medicinal prescription

1. Jisheng kidney qi pill ("Jisheng Fang"): 9-12 grams of medicine per serving, 1-2 times a day, warm water, such as astragalus, ginseng decoction served better. If made into soup, it can be according to the following: 9 grams of hyssop, 12 grams of psyllium (decoction), 12 grams of Chinese yam, 12 grams of cloud ling, 24 grams of ripe earth, 9 grams of cornelian cherry, 6 grams of dandelion, 9 grams of diarrhea, 9 grams of appendicia, and 3 grams of cinnamon. Decoction with water. This formula has the efficacy of warming and tonifying the kidney and yang, and is mainly used for treating lumbar pain and foot weakness, cold feeling in the lower body, constriction of the abdomen, unfavorable urination, dull and thin ulnar pulse, pale and fat tongue, thin white moss and no dryness.

2. Add and subtract Zhujing Pill ("Bureau Square"): 60 grams of psyllium, Angelica sinensis, 15 grams of ripe earth, schizandra, wolfberry, kozo, Chuanjiao 30 grams of each, cuscuta 250 grams. *** for the fine powder, honey boiled paste pills, such as the sycamore seed big, each serving 30 pills, fasting salt soup sent down. This formula has the effect of tonifying the kidneys and diuretic, and is used to treat chronic nephritis, swelling of the lower limbs, and shortness of urine.

3. Psyllium seed bulk ("Review Yao letter"): psyllium seed, mimulus, qiangcheng, tribulus terrestris, scutellaria, chrysanthemum, gentian grass, grass jelly, licorice, each equal to be divided into the end of 6 grams per serving, after eating, rice soup sent down. This formula has the effect of clearing the liver and brightening the eyes, and is mainly used to treat eye redness and swelling pain, eye astringency and tearing, vexed headache, dizziness and dizziness, short and red urine.