Plantago
Seed (che qian zi)
Semen
Plantaginis
Properties:
The herb is sweet in flavour,
and cold in nature. It acts on the liver, kidney and lung
channels. Being sweet and cold for lubricating, clearing,
lowering and descending, the herb can clear away damp-heat
from the lower-jiao to induce diuresis and treat
stranguria, and it is indicated for edema, stranguria,
diarrhea and other syndromes due to damp-heat. The herb
can also clear away heat from the lung and liver, relieve
cough, improve vision and treat cough due to lung-heat and
conjunctival congestion due to liver-heat and other
syndromes.
Effects:
Inducing diuresis, treating stranguria, clearing heat from
the liver for improving vision, removing heat from the
lung to clear phlegm.
Indications:
1.
The herb is often used in combination with
umbellate pore-fungus, poria, oriental water plantain
rhizome and other herbs for inducing diuresis and
alleviating edema, to treat edema, abdominal distention
and dysuria; with capejasmine fruit, manshurian
aristolochia stem, armstrong and other herbs for inducing
diuresis and treating stranguria, such as Bazheng Powder,
to treat damp-heat in the urinary bladder and dysuria; and
with white atractylodes rhizome, poria, oriental water
plantain rhizome and other herbs to treat diarrhea due to
summer dampness.
2.
The herb is often used in combination with gentian
root, chrysanthemum folwer and other herbs for clearing
heat and fire from the liver to improve vision, to treat
flaming-up of the liver-fire and conjunctival congestion
with swelling and pain; and with Chinese dodder seed,
rehmannia root and other herbs to nourish the liver and
improve vision, to treat Yin-deficiency of the liver and
kidney and blurred vision.
3.
To treat cough with yellow, sticky and thick phlegm
due to lung-heat, the herb is often used in combination
with scutellaria root, trichosanthes fruit, platycodon
root, apricot kernel and other herbs for clearing heat,
phlegm and cough.
Dosage
and Administration:
5-10g.
Wrapped in gauze and decocted in water.
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For the
convenience of customers, we offer the
Plantago
Seed (che qian zi)
as
the quick-dissolving granule made through modern
technology.
Directions:
Every
sachet is equivalent to raw herb 10 grams.
The dosage is for
adults, one sachet each time, twice a day. Please
put the granule into a cup, then put 50-100ml
boiling water into the cup and stir it with spoon.
You will get some tea, drink it when it is luke-warm.
For children, the dosage should be reduced according
to the weight.
Air ship 50 sachets of
Plantago
Seed (che qian zi)
in the form of quick-dissolving granule for your
personal use now at $98.00.
If you would like to
order this raw herb, please go to
the order form.
