This product is sweet and cold in nature, into the kidney, bladder, liver, lung meridian, function of diuretic lymphatic drainage, seepage of dampness to stop diarrhea, clearing the liver and eyesight, clearing away heat and phlegm, as a commonly used medicinal herbs.

An ancient Chinese medical text records, psyllium "cold". Based on this alone, it is a good antipyretic herb. Young people or middle-aged people, in daily life is very easy to occur in the symptoms of fire, this time with the psyllium boiled soup continuous consumption, can be effective in reducing fire.

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Perennial herb with flowering stems up to 50 mm high, with fibrous roots. Leaves rooted, long-petiolate, several as long as or longer than the leaf blade, base enlarged; leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 4 to 12 centimeters long, 2 to 7 centimeters wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base narrowed into a long stalk, entire or irregularly undulate shallowly toothed, usually with 5 to 7 arcuate veins.

Flowering stems several, 12 to 50 mm high, angular, sparsely hairy; spikes 2/5 to 1/2 of the flowering stems; flowers light green, with 1 persistent bract per flower, triangular; calyxes 4, slightly connate at the base, ellipsoid or ovate-orbicular, persistent;

Corolla small, gelatinous, corolla tube ovate, 4-lobed at the apex, lobes triangular, revolute outward; stamens 4, inserted in the corolla tube near base, alternate with corolla lobes, anthers oblong, 2-loculed, apex with triangular prominence, filaments linear; pistil 1, ovary superior, ovoid, 2-loculed (pseudo-4-loculed), style 1, linear, hairy.

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