Semen Plantaginis P.E. Introduction
1、Plantain is a well-known herb, growing in rich, moist places, in fields, by the roadsides, and in grass plats, and is common in Europe and America.The plant loses its medicinal activity by drying. All its preparations should be made from the freshly-gathered roots and tops. Water or alcohol extracts the virtues of the plant. The leaves contain chlorophyll, resin, wax, albumin, pectin, citric and oxalic acids.
2、Plantago Extract offers skin soothing properties and is recommended for general skin care. It is especially useful in anti-aging formulations or formulations for sensitive skin. Plantago Extract is also excellent for hair care.
3、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.
Semen Plantaginis P.E. Effects
Inducing diuresis, treating stranguria, clearing heat from the liver for improving vision, removing heat from the lung to clear phlegm.