A wonderful Chinese medicine is a treasure for lowering uric acid and anti-gout, but unfortunately many people don't know it
If you are a child who grew up in the countryside, you may be able to pronounce the names of some Chinese medicinal materials casually, such as Houttuynia cordata, dandelion, purslane, weeping pot grass, dogtail grass, plantain, and so on!
These common weeds in the countryside, if they are not well used, then it can only be weeds. However, what many people may not know is that there are many "Internet celebrities" in it, such as plantain. Especially in recent years, more and more traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have used plantain to treat gout, which is very spectacular.
So, can psyllium really lower uric acid and fight gout? The answer is yes. For the modern literature report on the use of plantain in lowering uric acid and anti-gout, at present, it was first seen in the journal "New Chinese Medicine" in 1989, which talked about two cases of gout patients, using 30 grams of fresh plantain, decoction with water, and the symptoms were significantly relieved after taking it for 15 days, in order to prevent recurrence, every 20 days or when pain symptoms appeared, take the medicine according to the dose, and then test the uric acid to be normal for many times.
However, at that time, there was a lack of pharmacological research on the uric acid-lowering and anti-gout of psyllium, and it was only speculated that the mechanism of plantain in the treatment of gout was likely to increase the excretion of uric acid due to water diuresis through clinical experience and the effect of "diuretic drenching" in ancient literature.
