Can children drink plantain?

Children can drink psyllium through professional Chinese medicine practitioners to identify and treat. Psyllium is the dried herb of Plantago ovata or Plantago ovata of the Plantago family. Its flavor is sweet, into the liver, kidney, lung, small intestine meridian. It is cold in nature and can clear heat, diuretic and diaphoretic (improve the problem of dribbling of urine, small amount of urine not passable), treating children’s urinary frequency, edema, low urine output, and diarrhea caused by dampness-heat underflow (dampness and heat evils invade the intestinal tract, bladder, pubic area, lower limbs, etc.). It can also dispel phlegm, cool the blood and detoxify the toxin (referring to the treatment of blood-heat and toxin impregnation), and treat phlegm-heat cough and nosebleed in children. At present, the adverse reactions and contraindications of Plantago Ovata are still unclear, children can take it, but the dosage should be reduced relative to adults. In addition, the nature of this product is cold, Yang deficiency patients try to take less. Children taking psyllium must follow the doctor’s instructions, can not be used on their own to avoid the risk of occurrence.