Psyllium is actually the seeds of plantain, when the plant will bear some fruits after flowering, these fruits are the plantain, in the rural roadside, fields, barren hills, grassy edges and other places can often be seen, and now in the fall is the time of plantain maturity. If usually some dampness and heat on fire, people in rural areas will often pull some psyllium to go back to make soup or boil water to drink, and the role of psyllium is actually similar to the role of psyllium. So, what are the effects of psyllium? And how to eat it? Is it the same way to eat with psyllium? Below, I will talk to you about psyllium seeds.

Psyllium is the seed of plantain, which belongs to a kind of more common traditional Chinese medicine. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and diuretic, clearing liver and eyesight, expectorant, and treating constipation. Here are two ways to consume psyllium that are good for your health.

Psyllium edible method

Method 1: psyllium tea, first of all, the psyllium mixed with impurities pick clean, the empty grain of the psyllium sieve, clean and dry. Take about 10 grams of psyllium, put into a cup of boiling water for brewing, when the tea to drink, a dose a day, can play the role of hypotension, diuresis, expectorant, cough;

Method 2: psyllium porridge, prepare about 100 grams of polished round-grained rice, washed clean and soaked in cold water for half an hour, and then polished round-grained rice to dry. Prepare clean psyllium about 25 grams, wrapped in gauze and tied. Add cold water and psyllium in a pot, boil for a quarter of an hour, fish out the psyllium, add japonica rice, use high heat to boil and then change to low heat until it boils into a porridge, and add some sugar when serving.

Consumption of psyllium contraindications

1. diarrhea can not be consumed, psyllium in a large number of dietary fiber, can effectively accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve constipation, if there is diarrhea after consumption, it will lead to a more serious condition;

2. diabetic should not be consumed, psyllium has diuretic effect, diabetic patients, if you need to consume, it must be carried out under the supervision of a doctor!

3. Cold kidney deficiency should not be consumed, this group of people would have been weaker, if the excessive consumption of psyllium, will cause diarrhea, is not conducive to good health.