Difference between Plantain and Psyllium

Plantain refers to the full name of the wolfberry including the seeds, while salt plantain refers to the perfect seeds of simple plantain. The difference lies in the medicinal effects, although they can clear away heat and fire, clear away heat and dampness, and promote urination. Plantain is generally used for general damp-heat syndrome, and is used to clear away heat and remove fire, and to clear away heat and remove dampness. Salt Plantain Seed has the effect of nourishing and maintaining health for the kidney water. It is generally used in nourishing and maintaining health medicines, often as powder and pills.

Benefits of Plantain

Aromatic Chinese herbal medicine for removing dampness, mainly used for treating: urinary incontinence, turbid and thin stranguria, edema, summer-heat diarrhea, red eyes, cataract, phlegm-heat cough

What is the difference between the effects of plantain and psyllium salt?

Plantain uses dried wolfberry grass, which has strong ability to clear away heat and fire, is fresh, and has better effect. Modern pharmacological research has also shown that plantain has anti-infection, antibacterial and anti-ulcer effects, and can be used with other heat-clearing and fire-removing medicines to treat wounds, eczema, damp-heat in the lower abdomen, stranguria and other symptoms. Salt plantain seeds are dry and perfect seeds. They can nourish the kidney, strengthen yang, soothe the liver and regulate qi, but have poor ability to clear away heat and remove fire. Modern pharmacological research shows that salt plantain has the effects of protecting liver, lowering blood pressure and anti-oxidation.

Is Salt Plantain Toxic?

Salt plantain has no toxic side effects. It is mainly used to treat edema, red and swollen eyes, and painful gonorrhea. It has relatively effective effects of resolving phlegm, dispelling dampness to treat diarrhea, clearing away heat, detoxifying, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. However, although this drug has no toxic side effects, it is cold. It should be used with caution for patients with cold constitution or relatively weak bodies.

Plantain can not only be used as a Chinese medicinal material, but also as a common food. Taking it is very beneficial to the human body, but it cannot be taken for a long time, and you should pay attention to the dosage when taking it. In addition, it should be noted that people with weak constitution or prone to skin allergies should take it with caution, and those who are careless about sperm should not eat it.

Salt Plantago seed is a diuretic and stranguria-relieving drug. Its main functions are clearing away heat and detoxifying to treat urination problems, draining dampness to treat diarrhea, clearing eyes and resolving phlegm. In clinical medicine, it can be used for gonorrhea, edema, summer-heat diarrhea, phlegm-heat cough, red and swollen eyes, etc. Modern pharmacological research shows that this product has obvious diuretic effect, can also promote the secretion of respiratory mucus, and has an inhibitory effect on various streptococci and staphylococci. However, it should be noted that people with kidney deficiency and spermatorrhea and pregnant women should not use it.