This product is the mature seed of Plantago asiatica (Plantago asiatica L.) or Plantain (P. depressa Willd.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Plantaceae family. The former is distributed throughout the country, and the latter is distributed in the northern provinces. Mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei and other places. Harvest when the seeds are mature in summer and autumn. Use raw or broiled in salt water.

[Property]

sweet, cold. act on kidney, liver and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

Diuretic and relieve stranguria, draining dampness and checking diarrhea, clearing heat and improving vision, clearing the lung and resolving phlegm.

1. For edema, stranguria. This product is sweet and slippery, cold and cooling, clearing away heat, and has the effect of diuresis and treating stranguria. It is especially suitable for those suffering from dribbling urination caused by dampness-heat pouring down in the bladder. Often used together with clearing heat and draining dampness medicines such as Akebia Stem, Talc, Grass of Common KnotGrass, such as Eight-Ingredient Rectification Powder.
2. For summerheat dampness diarrhea. This product can dilute water and dampness, distinguish turbidity and stop diarrhea, that is, it can facilitate urination and facilitate stool. Therefore, it is used to treat watery diarrhea caused by excessive dampness in the large intestine and difficulty in urination. This product can be ground into powder and taken with rice drink. Or used equivalently with White Atractylodes Rhizome, Poria, Alisma.
3. It is used for red eye astringency and pain, dim vision, nebula disorder, etc. It is good at clearing liver heat and can improve vision, so it can treat astringent pain in red eyes. It is often used with Chrysanthemum Flower and Cassia Seed. If the liver kidney yin is deficient, both If blurred vision flowers or internal visual obstruction are unknown, nourishing blood and vision improving medicines such as Prepared Rehmannia Root Huang, Dodder Seed must be used, such as Permanent Eyesight Pill.
4. For phlegm-heat cough. This product enters the lung meridian and can clear the lung and resolving phlegm to relieve cough. It is used to treat lung heat cough and excessive phlegm. It is often used together with medicines that clear the lung and resolving phlegm such as Trichosanthis Fruit, Fritillaria Bulb, loquat leaf.
5. In addition, for the treatment of hypertension, take as tea.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Dominant qi 烃, pain relief, diuresis, in addition to fixed arthralgia."
2. Bielu: "The man was injured, the woman strangury During pregnancy, it nourishes the lungs, strengthens yin and replenishes essence, improves vision and cures redness and pain."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "Conducts heat in the small intestine and relieves summerheat dampness and diarrhea. ”

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 10-15g. Cloth bag is appropriate.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Plantain Seed contains mucilage, amber acid, plantainenol, adenine, choline, Plantain Seed base, fatty oils, vitamins A and B, etc. This product has a significant diuretic effect, can also promote the secretion of mucus in the respiratory tract and dilute sputum, so it has a dispelling phlegm effect. It has inhibitory effects on various bacilli and staphylococci.

Plantain Herb: The whole grass in front of the car. The properties, taste and functions are the same as Plantain Seed, and it can clear heat and remove toxin. Used to treat heat toxin carbuncle, take it internally or pound fresh grass for external application. Dosage: 10~20g. Double the amount of fresh food. Appropriate amount for external use.