Lanternwort, Tongzhao, plantain and other traditional Chinese medicine used as a tea drink have diuretic effect, due to individual differences, the effect of these traditional Chinese medicines as a tea drink may be different, and traditional Chinese medicine tea drink has limited efficacy, may be worse than the herbs, to achieve the therapeutic effect.
1. Lanternwort: this medicine is the dried stem pith of the Lanternwort plant, this medicine is sweet and light can seep dampness, good clear heart fire, facilitate urination, to urinate unfavorable, gonorrhea and astringent pain and other diseases have curative effect, can be paired with mouton, psyllium and other Chinese medicines. The adverse effects and contraindications of this drug are not clear.
2. Tongcao: this medicine is the dried stem pith of the plant Tongtuo wood, its nature is slightly cold, good heat diuretic, qi under the breast, clinical and talcum, Shi Wei, Dongkouzi and other traditional Chinese medicines, in order to cure the heat gonorrhea (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by urinary frequency, urgency, abdominal discomfort) caused by the urine unfavorable (urinary discomfort), this drug should be used with caution in pregnant women, the adverse effects are not yet clear.
3. Psyllium: this medicine is the plant plant before the plant or the dried plant before the plant family Psyllium, there are clearing heat diuretic drenching (to improve the urine dribbling, urine volume is not the problem), cool blood detoxification and expectorant effect, and winter sunflower seeds, wood, and other traditional Chinese medicines, can be a treatment of dampness-heat condensation (dampness and heat in the body of each other) in the bladder caused by urinary dribbling (urinary sensation) astringent pain.
Its adverse effects and contraindications are not known.
Lanternwort, Tongzhi, plantain, although all can be used as a tea, but the actual efficacy and role are not as good as the herbs, in the diuretic often does not achieve the therapeutic effect, if the patient wants to improve the condition, but also need to be in a professional Chinese medicine practitioner under the guidance of the correct use of medication.