What are the functions and effects of Plantago?

Plantago has a relatively good diuretic effect. In addition, it can help us effectively treat and improve synovial inflammation, and it has a significant effect in lowering serum cholesterol. When combined with white tulip, it can also effectively treat fatty liver.

1. Diuretic effect

For normal people, taking 10g of Plantago seed decoction orally has a diuretic effect, but the total volume of the decoction and the daily water intake are not recorded, and there is a lack of strict control. Normal people and rabbits

Plantain seed decoction has no obvious diuretic effect. Plantago seeds also have no diuretic effect.

2. Effect on joint capsule

When small amounts of Plantago seed decoction are injected multiple times into the rabbit's knee joint cavity, synovial inflammation occurs first, followed by connective tissue hyperplasia. Therefore, it is possible to restore the original tension of the relaxed joint capsule. It can be used clinically for temporomandibular joint subluxation. The seeds of Indian Plantain Plantagoovata contain a large amount of mucilage, which can be used as a bulk laxative and has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol in humans.

3. Treatment of fatty liver:

1. Fish with Herba Plantaine and Amomum villosum: 60 grams each of Herba Plantaine and Herba Plantaine, 10 grams of Amomum villosum, 1 carp, and appropriate amounts of salt and ginger. Remove the scales, gills and internal organs of the carp, add water and cook with the other three ingredients. After the fish is cooked, add salt and ginger to season.

2. Atractylodes and jujube: 12 grams each of Atractylodes, Plantain, and Curcuma, and 120 grams of jujube. Wrap Atractylodes macrocephala, Plantain and Curcuma aromatica in gauze, add water and cook together with dates, making sure the dates absorb as much of the medicinal liquid as possible, then remove the residue and eat the dates.