Can Plantago lower uric acid?

Can salt plantain lower uric acid? Plantain is a traditional Chinese medicine. Its key function is to facilitate urination and it also has certain anti-infection effects. In traditional Chinese medicine, plantain is mainly used to treat symptoms of lower limb edema, nephritis, urinary tract infection, and urethral stones. It is not known since when, plantain or psyllium has been used to treat hyperuricemia. However, according to the feedback from gout patients I have met who have used plantain, there is basically no actual effect.

Nowadays, the number of patients with gout and high uric acid is increasing, and they are showing a trend of getting younger. As our understanding of the various health hazards caused by gout and long-term elevated blood uric acid levels gradually deepens, how to safely and quickly lower the body's uric acid levels and keep them in a normal range has become the most concerning issue for patients with gout and high uric acid levels. We control our diet, drink plenty of water, and keep exercising, hoping that the uric acid index can be lowered. Although "controlling your diet" and "moving your legs" are important, for many friends with high uric acid levels, the actual effect of lowering uric acid is often not ideal. Therefore, we place our hopes of lowering uric acid on some Chinese herbal medicines with "powerful" uric acid-lowering effects, hoping to achieve "extraordinary" uric acid-lowering effects. In fact, this kind of thinking is not realistic, "idealism is rich, but life is helpless."

Gout is caused by increased uric acid in the blood or decreased excretion. Excessive uric acid accumulates in the joints, soft tissues, cartilage and kidneys in the form of acetate, causing foreign body inflammation of the tissues and resulting in the disease. If incomplete treatment is required, it may lead to joint swelling, deformity, muscle stiffness, ecchymosis and lumps around the joints, high incidence of gouty kidney stones, gouty renal failure, etc., and even threaten the patient's life.

Salt Plantago seed is a Chinese herbal medicine that is sweet and cold in nature, and enters the kidney, liver, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of diuresis, relieving stranguria, clearing away dampness to treat diarrhea, clearing away heat and removing fire, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is used for urinary difficulties, edema, and gonorrhea. Salt Plantain Seed has the effects of diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

In clinical trials, plantain seed has also been used to treat uric acid. Plantain seed has the function of inhibiting the tyrosine kinase activity in the liver, and can achieve the effect of reducing serum uric acid by inhibiting the production of uric acid. It can also reduce cytotoxicity, thereby improving the patient's renal function.

However, salt plantain seeds are cold in nature. If the dosage is not controlled, it will cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and even damage kidney function. It should be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.