The price market of plantain

Plantain, a traditional Chinese medicine, is a dry or fresh whole grass of Plantago asiatica or Plantaginaceae. It is born in grasslands, river beaches, ditches, meadows, fields and roadsides. It is distributed in most parts of our country with sweet taste and cold nature. with diuretic, heat-clearing, clear-sighted, expectorant effect, let's take a look at the price of plantain!

The price market of plantain

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Plantain is mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, *, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang and other places. Korea, Russia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Kashmir, India are also distributed.

The efficacy and function of plantain

The taste is sweet and cold.

Meridian of liver, kidney and bladder.

[efficacy] it can be used for clearing heat, diuresis, expectorant, cooling blood, detoxification, for edema and oliguria, hot and astringent pain, summer dampness and diarrhea, phlegm-heat cough, hematemesis, hematemesis, carbuncle, etc.

1. Plantain has certain diuretic effect and can treat occult glomerulonephritis.

2. Plantain has antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects, and can treat chronic bronchitis, pertussis and so on.

3. Plantain also has the effect of anti-pathogenic microorganisms, can inhibit inflammation, can treat mumps, bacillary dysentery, acute icteric hepatitis, treatment of mouth and tongue sores and so on.

4. Plantain also has an effect on stomach and intestine, which can temporarily increase intestinal fluid secretion, make breathing deeper and slower, promote the secretion of bronchus and digestive tract, and promote the movement of intestine and uterus. It can treat infantile diarrhea.

Identification of counterfeit Plantago asiatica

1. Roasted South scape seed or South scape seed: the seeds are oblong and slightly flattened, about 1 mm long and 0.5 mm wide. The appearance is brown, reddish brown or dark brown (fried), one end is obtusely round, the front end of the broad leaf is nearly truncated, and the two sides are often asymmetrical. Observed under anatomical microscope: there are fine reticulation and two longitudinal lines can be seen. The breath is slight, the taste is slightly pungent.

2. The seeds are ovoid, 1.5 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, one end is obtusely round, the other end is acuminate and slightly concave, and the white spot (navel) shows most of the fine granular protuberances on the surface mask. See two longitudinal shallow grooves.

3. Schizonepeta tenuifolia seed: it is 3 mm long and 1 mm wide, the surface is yellowish brown to brown black, slightly smooth, with small yellow-white fruit stalk marks at one end, crisp, fragrant and light taste.

4. Codonopsis pilosula: the seed is oval-shaped, about 1.5-1.8 mm long and 0.6-1.2 mm wide, with a brown and glossy surface. Under the anti-impact mirror, it can be seen that it is densely covered with longitudinal shallow lines, the top is obtusely round, and the base has a round concave navel, which is hard. The breath is slight and the taste is a little bitter.

5. Cyclobalanopsis grossedentata: the seeds are oblate, a few are round kidney-shaped, 1-1.5 mm in diameter. The surface is black or red-black, bright, slightly raised in the middle, navel in the lateral fossa, and the seed coat is thin and brittle. Odorless, tasteless

6. Wuweizi: the seed is triangular, about 2-3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. The surface is grayish brown to grayish brown with dark spots. One end is slightly wider, flat truncate, the other end is narrowed and pointed, the pericarp is thin, cotyledons are white, oil-rich. Odorless, bitter taste.

7. In front of the car: it is oval in shape, about 3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. A few seeds are comprehensive red, slightly glossy and slightly transparent, and most of the seeds are covered with gray-brown membranous mucus layer on the central outside of the dorsal ventral surface. The back is raised, and the middle of the ventral surface is obviously concave, slightly like a mold. The breath is slight and the taste is a little salty.