Psyllium boiled in water to take both the leaves and the root is used, it is the whole herb that is boiled in water.
Psyllium is the name of the traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried whole herb, including the leaves and roots, of Plantago ovata or Psyllium flatum, family Plantagoceae. Psyllium is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the liver, kidney, lung and small intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat, diuretic and diaphoretic (to improve the problem of dribbling urine, and the problem of small and incomplete urine), expectorating phlegm, cooling the blood, and detoxifying the toxin.
It may be taken under the supervision of a physician if the patient has sore throat, heat knot in the bladder, epistaxis, blood in urine, summer-dampness diarrhea and dysentery, dysuria (inability to pass urine), gonorrhea and leucorrhea (cloudy urine and leucorrhea), carbuncle, swelling and sores, epistaxis, blood in urine and redness of the eyes due to liver heat, etc. It may also be used to treat the symptoms of diarrhea and dysentery.
Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear, note that if the deficiency slippery essence is not solid, it is forbidden.
Plantain is the whole grass into medicine, so boil water to drink its leaves and roots with the whole, after drinking, such as adverse reactions to stop drinking in time.
Drugs should be taken under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.