Psyllium has the effect of clearing heat and diuretic, expectorant, cooling the blood and detoxification, and can be used to treat feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by urinary frequency and urgency, and abdominal traction and discomfort), edema, vomiting of blood, phlegm-heat and coughing and other conditions.
Psyllium is the dried whole grass of Plantago ovata or Psyllium flatulatum of the Plantago family, which is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, with the efficacy of clearing heat and diuresis, expectorating phlegm, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin. In clinical practice, it can be paired with medicines such as mouton, slippery stone and dandelion for the treatment of heat drenching and astringent pain. This drug can also be used to treat edema and urination, diarrhea caused by summer dampness, vomiting blood, coughing with phlegm-heat, carbuncle, swelling and sores.
If patients need to use the drug, they should go to the hospital and use it under the guidance of the doctor, and should not use the drug without authorization, so as not to cause adverse consequences.