What are the efficacy, functions and edible methods of plantain commonly seen on the roadside? Can I get some water to drink? Are there any side effects?

Plantain, which can be seen everywhere in the roadside wild, was often pulled home by my mother when she was a child, which can be eaten or used medicinally, dried in the sun to drink water, or soaked in a bath. So, do you really know the efficacy and function of plantain? What are the edible methods of plantain? Do you have any side effects after eating?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, plantain has a sweet cold taste, which can eliminate edema, clear heat and diuresis, clear the liver and clear eyes, and stop diarrhea, which is suitable for edema of damp-heat and internal depression. It not only has a significant diuretic effect, can treat urinary tract infection, but also has obvious expectorant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antihypertensive functions, and has a very good effect on intestinal infections, such as enteritis and dysentery. At the same time, it also has a very good effect on gynecological inflammation such as excessive leucorrhea in female compatriots.

Plantain is not only a traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food, but also a delicious wild vegetable for dietotherapy. Specific eating method:

If you choose fresh plantain for treatment, the general dosage should be a little larger, about 200 ~ 300 grams, and it can be boiled and drunk directly after washing, or it can be picked and washed clean and made into cold dishes to eat. it has a preventive and therapeutic effect on mild inflammation.

Usually eat at home, directly boil water and drink water. You can also pick fresh plantain and cook it lightly in boiling water. Cold dressing, stuffing (such as dumplings, steamed buns), soup or noodle steaming are all good.

You can also use plantain to make tea: 100g / 150g fresh plantain and 0.51g green tea. After boiling plantain with water for 5 minutes, add green tea while boiling. Take 1 ~ 2 doses a day, three times a day.

There are also some prescriptions for you to learn and communicate. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.

1. Diuresis and elimination of edema

Take the right amount of fresh plantain leaf bud and a little honey. Wash plantain, mash about 100 milliliters of juice, mix in honey, drink once, twice a day. It can reduce swelling, relieve cough and remove phlegm.

2. Clear the liver and clear the eyes

Take 250 grams of fresh plantain leaf buds and 150 grams of dried tofu. Wash plantain, blanch in boiling water, bleach bitter taste in cold water, drain, marinate with salt for 10 minutes, squeeze water and cut fine, add sesame oil and mix well. Shred dried bean curd, scald in boiling water, drench with cold boiled water, drain, put into plantain plate, add sugar, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and eat. Can clear the liver and clear the eyes.

3. Expectorant and diuretic

Take 50g of plantain leaf bud, 100g of rice and 2000 g of watermelon pulp. Wash the plantain and cut it up. The watermelon is seeded. Wash the rice, add the right amount of water, boil in high heat and simmer until the rice is done, add plantain and refined salt, cook for another 10 minutes, mix in the watermelon pulp and eat, it has the effect of clearing heat, eyesight, expectorant and diuresis.

4. Pediatric bedwetting

Plantain, Angelica 60 grams each, ephedra 10 grams, fried to 200 milliliters. Take 100ml under 14 years old and 200ml over 15 years old. Take it 1 hour before going to bed every night, 7 days as a course of treatment.

In general, taking plantain has no special side effects, but it is one-third of the poison, so if there is no obvious effect after taking plantain for a period of time, you should stop taking plantain to avoid adverse effects on the body and intestines and stomach. And need to remind everyone is that plantain nature is cold, so spleen and stomach deficiency cold, easy diarrhea, cold hands and feet friends, do not eat.