Have you ever heard of toad clothes? I'm sure you don't know its efficacy. You'll know it after you read it.

Toad clothes, that is, toad vegetables, also known as Daodao, floating, Ma Xi, Niu Yi, cow tongue, wheelgrass, lichen, toad skin, toad grass. Perennial herbs. Stem creeping is not tall, palmately or pinnately compound leaves, leaflet surface is toad skin-like (hence the name), some 3 or 7. Flowers solitary, petals 5, usually yellow. Most of them are born on wet slopes and wastelands. Cold in nature, bitter in taste. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Toad clothing, the scientific name is plantain, knot called plantain seed, can be used as medicine, taste slightly bitter, cool, enter the lung, liver, stomach meridian, clear heat and purge fire. Plantain, a traditional Chinese medicine, likes to be damp, and grows mostly in low-lying areas, on the ridges of the fields, in front and behind houses, and beside the road, where toads are active, so it is commonly known as "toad clothes". (efficacy and function of dandelion, efficacy and function of Artemisia angustifolia)

Plantain leaves are adaptable and widely grow in grasslands, beaches, ditches, meadows, fields and roadsides in China from south to north. It can be seen almost everywhere in our life, its tender leaves contain carotene, vitamin C, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, as well as citric acid, oxalic acid and other nutritional identity. According to a lot of documents and records of traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that plantain has the functions of promoting diuresis, clearing liver and eyesight, clearing heat and detoxification, clearing lung and resolving phlegm. The main treatment is unlucky urination, climate diarrhea with high temperature in midsummer, red swelling and pain in the eyes and so on. In addition to medicinal uses, plantain is also edible.

Modern people often use it to assist in the treatment of gout, jaundice, hypertension, edema, fatty liver, hot and humid heat, dysentery, mumps, chronic bronchitis, infantile enuresis, diarrhea, acute glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, hydronephrosis and other diseases. It has the effect of relieving cough, relieving asthma and removing phlegm, and plantain has the effect of treating gout on urinary system: plantain has a certain diuretic effect, which can increase the excretion of water in dogs, rabbits and people, and increase the excretion of urea, uric acid and sodium chloride. Antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects: Plantago asiatica decoction was given to cats at high and low doses, which could significantly increase the electrical stimulation threshold of cough in cats. The effect of anti-pathogenic microorganisms: the water extract of plantain had different inhibitory effects on Trichophyton concentric, Trichophyton rubrum, Nuca stellata and so on in the test tube.

Effect on stomach and intestine: administration of plantain plant extract or extract 0.5g/kg to Pavlov's small stomach and stomach disease dogs had two-way regulating effect on gastric juice secretion, and had antagonistic effect on excessive gastric juice secretion caused by pilocarpine and low gastric juice secretion caused by epinephrine. Plantain has an inhibitory effect on the working stomach, but has no effect on the quiet stomach. Plantain can also temporarily increase intestinal fluid secretion, but has no significant effect on intestinal movement. Anti-inflammatory effect: oral administration of plantain pectin 0.5g/kg or 1g/kg could significantly inhibit inflammatory edema caused by formaldehyde or dextran in rats.

Plantain leaves can be dried in the sun, can be used as tea bubble water to drink, can also be added to the hot water every day some bubble feet, have a very good therapeutic effect. Plantain is not only a good traditional Chinese medicine, but also one of the foods with good taste. The fresh plantain leaves are rich in nutrition and have great therapeutic value, which can be found in many food therapy prescriptions, such as: stewed pig belly with plantain leaves, plantain amaranth porridge, plantain leaf small watermelon porridge, plantain radish porridge and so on. Fresh and tender leaves can also be washed and fried directly. Tonifying deficiency and clear vision (deficiency of liver and kidney, black eyes, or barrier nebula, tears in the wind). With plantain seed, cooked Rehmannia glutinosa (steamed wine and then roasted), dodder (soaked in wine) five taels each, together for the end, add honey and pills, such as Wuzi big. Each take 30 pills, warm wine to send down. Take it twice a day, which is called "Zujing Pill".