Pinyin Name: Che Qian Zi
English Name: Plantago Seed, Asiatic Plantain Seed, Plantain Seed
Properties: sweet, cold
Channels Entered: Kidney, Urinary Bladder, Liver, Lung

• Dispels damp heat from the lower burner, treats edema, and heat dysuria
• Burning dysuria, urgency with inability to urinate, painful urination, dribbling urination with pain and swelling

• Diarrhea due to summer heat
• Diarrhea with dysuria
• Summer diarrhea in children

• Eye problems from Liver fire
• Eye redness, swelling and pain
• Headaches provoked by Liver yang rising
• Dizziness and blurred vision due to Liver and Kidney deficiencies
  

• Benefits cough with thick yellow sputum caused by lung heat
• Lung yin deficiency cough