Plantain has the effects of brightening the eyes, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin (referring to the treatment of blood-heat and toxicity), and clearing heat and diuresis. It can be used for the treatment of heat drenching (burning and stinging pain is obvious when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, small abdominal traction discomfort) astringent pain, urinary edema, sore throat, etc..
Psyllium is sweet and cold in nature, belonging to the liver, bladder and small intestine meridian. It is capable of clearing heat and diuresis, cooling blood and detoxification, and brightening the eyes. It can be used to treat oedema and urination caused by heat in the bladder, hemorrhagic drenching (the appearance of blood in the urine with pain), hot drenching, stony drenching (discharging gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, and unbearable pain in the lower back and abdomen), whitish turbidity (cloudy urine such as white slurry), and dysuria, etc. It can also treat vomiting of blood.
Plantain is also capable of treating epistaxis, carbuncle sores, sore throat, summer dampness and diarrhea.
Plantain can be decocted into soup or pounded for internal use, and can also be used externally as a decoction for washing or applying to the affected area. The adverse effects of this product are not clear, and it is forbidden for those who have deficiency and slippery essence.
The use of psyllium and other traditional Chinese medicine need to be guided by a professional doctor, do not blindly use their own medicine.