Do you know the efficacy of Chinese medicine Plantago?

Plantago seed is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a herbaceous plant. Its main function is its fruit. After the fruit is ripe, pick it and grind it into powder. It can be taken with boiled water in the morning and evening for better effect. Plantago can speed up gastrointestinal motility, moisturize the intestines, and solve constipation with basically no side effects.

1. Clearing away heat and promoting diuresis

Plantago seed is sweet, cold, slippery and good at clearing water channels and clearing heat from the bladder. It can be used together with Akebia, Talcum and Dianthus Superbus to treat damp-heat that flows into the bladder and causes dribbling, painful and uncomfortable urination; it can be used together with Poria, Poria and Alisma for edema caused by stagnant water and difficulty urinating; if the disease has lasted for a long time with kidney deficiency, heaviness of waist and swelling of feet, it can be used together with Achyranthes bidentata and Rehmannia glutinosa.

2. Dampness-removing and diarrhea-stopping

Plantago seed can promote diuresis, separate the clear from the turbid and stop diarrhea. It is especially good at treating watery diarrhea. For those with difficulty urinating, this product can be ground into powder alone and taken with rice soup. If the diarrhea is caused by summer-heat and dampness, it can be used together with Patchouli, Poria, and Polyporus. If the diarrhea is caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, it can be used together with Atractylodes macrocephala and Coix seed.

3. Improve eyesight

Plantago seed has the effect of improving eyesight. It can clear away liver heat and improve eyesight, and treat red and painful eyes. It can also be used in combination with liver and kidney nourishing medicines to treat liver and kidney yin deficiency, dark and blurred vision and other symptoms to achieve the effect of improving eyesight.

4. Expectorant and cough relieving

Plantago seed can enter the lung meridian, clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and treat symptoms such as lung heat, cough and excessive sputum. It is often used together with other lung clearing and phlegm-resolving drugs such as Trichosanthes, Fritillaria thunbergii, and loquat leaves.

5. Anti-pathogenic microorganisms

Plantain water extract has different degrees of inhibitory effect on Trichophyton concentricum, Microspore Trichophyton woolly, Nocardia asteroides, etc. in test tube.