The effects and contraindications of Plantago

Plantago, also known as plantain, is a perennial herb of the Plantaginaceae family that grows on roadsides, in mountains and by rivers. The seeds of plantain have the medicinal effects of nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria, and removing phlegm and stopping diarrhea. Plantain is a very popular wild vegetable in many places. Plantago contains bioalkali, small molecule acidic substances, and is also rich in various trace elements such as magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, and manganese.

Plantain can treat chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, mumps, acute icteric hepatitis, gouty arthritis, mouth sores and other diseases. Generally, dry plantain is boiled in water and taken. If it is fresh plantain, the dosage needs to be doubled to achieve the same medicinal effect. In addition, plantain can also treat hypertension and glaucoma (only take it for about three days, the pupils will shrink to normal).

It can also treat childhood diarrhea, bacterial dysentery, latent nephritis, gout and stones. Many diseases can be treated by eating plantain seeds alone, which has a short treatment time and high efficacy. Some diseases also require a compound prescription made with plantain seeds and other Chinese medicinal materials. In clinical treatment, drinking psyllium tea alone is often used, which can effectively reduce the content of uric acid, but psyllium has strong

It has a diuretic effect, so long-term use may have adverse effects on the kidneys. Plantain seed is a plant that can treat many diseases, but not everyone is suitable for taking it. People with internal injuries and fatigue must not take it. Men with spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea must not take it either. Also, there are certain foods that should not be taken with Plantain seed.

For example, psyllium cannot be eaten with chili peppers. Plantain seeds can be eaten directly, made into pills or powders, boiled in water and taken directly, made into porridge with other ingredients, or made into mung bean soup with plantain seeds and mung beans. This not only cures diseases, but also plays a dual role in relieving heat and cooling down and replenishing the body's energy and nutrition.