Horsetail is a diuretic and cough suppressant.

According to Oriental medicine, Plantago has a sweet, bland taste and a cool nature that enters three meridians: liver, kidney, and small intestine. Plantago has the effect of clearing the lungs, moistening the liver, promoting urination, clearing heat, penetrating the bladder and relieving dampness, stopping coughs, dissolving phlegm, stopping heat and diarrhea, improving eyesight, nourishing, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory.

Horseshoe vegetable is also called Plantago asiatica or Xa tien thao. Scientific name is Plantago asiatica L. The plant grows wild or cultivated everywhere in our country. According to Oriental medicine, Plantago has a sweet, bland taste, cool properties, and enters 3 meridians: liver, kidney, and small intestine. Plantago has the effect of clearing the lungs, moistening the liver, diuretic, clearing heat, penetrating the bladder and dampness, stopping coughs, dissolving phlegm, stopping heat and diarrhea, improving eyesight, nourishing, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory.

Horsetail is used as a diuretic, cough suppressant, bronchitis, urinary tract infection, edema, frequent urination, red spots, tonic, sores, hemostasis, muscle healing, and red eyes. The usual dose is 6-12g. This article introduces how to use Plantago as a medicine to treat urinary tract and respiratory diseases.

Acute urinary tract infection: 20g Plantago, 15g Scutellaria baicalensis, 15g Dandelion, 20g Desmodium styracifolium, 15g Gardenia fruit, 20g Motherwort, 20g Eclipta prostrata, 30g Cogon root, 5g Licorice. Boil and drink 1 dose per day for 10 consecutive days. This recipe is also used for cases of hematuria, kidney and bladder stones.

Blood in urine: 20g fresh plantain leaves, 0.5g onion, 0.5g ginger. Cook soup and eat daily for several weeks.

Frequent urination, painful urination, red rash: boil 60g fresh plantain leaves in water to drink. Or cook with pork until tender. Eat the flesh and drink the broth.

Diuretic remedy: 10g plantago seeds, 2g licorice, 600ml water. Boil down to 200ml. Divide into 3 doses to drink during the day.

In summer, often going out in the sun, working outdoors, sweating a lot, causing red urine, tired limbs, hot chest, hot skin: boil 20-30g of fresh plantain leaves and drink instead of tea, add a few grains of salt when drinking.

Cure cough and phlegm: 10g Plantago, 2g Licorice, 2g Platycodon grandiflorum, boil 400ml water until 100ml remains. Divide into 3 doses to drink during the day.

Bronchitis: 15g fresh plantain leaves, a few young squash, chopped, boil with water and drink 3 times a day. For 3-5 days.

Laryngitis, pharyngitis, hoarseness: steep or boil 60-100g of plantain root in 1 liter of water to gargle.

Children with pink eye: fresh shredded plantain cooked with a moderate amount of crucian carp. Eat for a few days.

Cooling, expectorant, diuretic, bright eyes: Cook 500g of rice into porridge, then add 10g of young, thinly sliced ​​plantain leaves. Cook regularly.

Taboos:In case of no heat, kidney deficiency, internal injury, yang qi descending, do not use. Use with caution during pregnancy because of its activity.

According to SK&DS