Breastfeeding women can take psyllium if there are indications for the use of medication, the specific use of medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.
Psyllium is a Chinese herbal medicine made from the dried whole herb of the plant Psyllium or Psyllium flatulentum of the Psyllium family, which is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, and can be applied to the kidney, bladder and liver meridians, with the effect of clearing heat and diuretic, detoxifying and cooling the blood.
This herb is mainly used in the treatment of heat knotting in the bladder, gonorrhea (cloudy urine and leucorrhea), dysuria (unruly urine), blood in urine, liver-heat and redness in the eyes, summer-dampness diarrhea and dysentery, sore throat, epistaxis, carbuncle sores and poison.
It should be noted that it is contraindicated for those who have deficiency and slippery essence, while lactating women do not belong to the contraindications for the use of the drug, and can take the drug if there are indications for the use of the drug as mentioned above.
Specific medication should be carried out under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of medication, so as to avoid adverse consequences.