Psyllium its can be boiled and drunk directly, in general, wait until it is cooled and the temperature is not too high then you can drink it.
Psyllium is the dried whole grass of Plantago Ovata P or Psyllium Hirundinum of Plantago Ovata family. Sweet taste, cold nature. Attributed to the liver, kidney, lung, small intestine meridian. It can clear heat, diuretic and diaphoretic (improve the problem of dribbling in urine, small amount of urine not passable), dispel phlegm, cool blood and detoxify. It is used for heat drenching (burning and stinging pain evident during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of traction in the abdomen) and astringent pain, edema and scanty urination, summer-dampness and diarrhea, phlegm-heat cough, and vomiting and epistaxis.
Plantain can be directly boiled in water, decocted into soup, and can be taken when the temperature is suitable; it can also be pounded into juice to be taken.
The efficacy of single plantain boiled in water is limited. Patients are advised to use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor.