Plantago Ovata and Plantago Ovata Root Benefits

Psyllium can clear heat, diuretic and diaphoretic (improve the problem of dribbling in urine, small amount of urine that does not pass), dispel phlegm, cool the blood, and detoxify the toxin; while Radix Bupleurum officinale cools and stops bleeding (cools and moistens the blood and prevents bleeding), clears heat and induces diuresis. Plantain is sweet and cold. It belongs to the liver, kidney, lung and small intestine meridians. It can clear heat, diuretic and diuretic, dispel phlegm, cool the blood and detoxify the toxin. It is used in the treatment of heat drenching (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort in abdominal traction), astringent pain, edema and urination, summer-dampness diarrhea (diarrhea caused by summer-dampness), phlegm-heat cough, vomiting and epistaxis, carbuncle, swelling, sores and poisons. Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae Praeparata is sweet and cold. It belongs to lung, stomach and bladder meridians. It can cool blood, stop bleeding, clear heat and diuretic. It is used in treating hemorrhagic fever, epistaxis, blood in urine, fever and thirst, damp-heat jaundice, edema with scanty urination, and feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling in the abdomen) and astringent pain. It should be noted that due to the cold nature of the two, the use should be moderate, and should not be used by people with deficiency of spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weakness and cold), as well as people with diarrhea and loose stools (loose stools are thin and not shaped), so as not to exacerbate the weakness of the disease. The use of the drug should be under the guidance of a physician.