The effect and medicinal value of plantain are introduced in detail.

Plantain, also known as wheel vegetables, is a perennial herb for the vehicle. Growing in the mountains, roadsides, flower beds, rivers and other places. Rhizomes are short and plump and densely bearded. Leaves all rooted, leaf blade smooth, broadly ovate, margin undulate, with obscure obtuse teeth, main veins five, raised to leaf back, ribbed into petiole, leaf blade often as long as petiole. Spring, summer and autumn plant body central spike, flowers small, corolla not significant. Fruit ellipsoid, style persistent at tip, lid fissured at maturity, seeds shed. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heat and improving eyesight, eliminating phlegm and stopping diarrhea. Not only medicinal, but also edible, then, plantain what effect it has?

Nutritional composition of plantain

Plantago contains mucus, succinic acid, plantain enol, adenine, choline, plantain base, fatty oil, vitamin A and B vitamins.

The medicinal effects of plantain

Plantago can promote respiratory mucus secretion, dilute sputum, expectorant, antitussive, antiasthmatic effect; all kinds of bacilli and staphylococci have inhibitory effect; can make water, sodium chloride, urea and uric acid excretion increased and diuretic effect; can reduce cholesterol; modern clinical can be used for the treatment of congestive heart failure, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, acute icteric hepatitis and so on.

The therapeutic effect of plantain

1. Treatment of bacterial dysentery: plantain, fried coptis 60 grams each, garden burnet, gardenia, licorice root 15 grams each, tangerine peel (soaked to white) 30 grams. The herbs are ground into coarse powder. 15 grams each time, decocted in serous fluid and taken on an empty stomach.

2. Treatment of psoriasis: plantain 15 grams (cloth bag), coix seed 30 grams, silkworm excrement 9 grams (cloth bag), white sugar amount. The plantain and silkworm faeces add 500 ml of water to fry 200 ml, then add coix seed to boil into gruel, with white sugar adjustment service. Take 8 to 10 doses of the drug once daily.

3. Treatment of infantile malnutrition: proper amount of plantain, garlic 2. Stir plantain, mash garlic, mix well, stick navel for 4 hours.

4. Treatment of pregnancy vomiting: plantain, ginseng, atractylodes rhizome, white poria cocos, dwarf lilyturf root, licorice root each 3 grams, cinnamon heart 15 grams, japonica rice 100 grams, brown sugar a little. The first 7 herbs are put into the casserole, decocted in water, removed from the residue and extracted from the juice, then added to the washed japonica rice to cook porridge, and added with a small amount of brown sugar to taste. Once a day on an empty stomach.

5. Treatment of wet poison caused by the disease: plantain 30 grams (gauze package), Poria powder 30 grams, 60 grams of rice, white sugar amount. First add 300 ml of water to plantain, fry for half an hour and take out. Add rice and poria cocos powder to cook porridge, porridge into white sugar. Twice a day.

Plantago, a perennial herb of the genus Plantago, is the mature seed of Plantago or Plantago. Alias also called the front of the car, pig ears, phoenix eyes before kernel. Summer and autumn seeds are harvested when mature. Raw or salted. What are the effects of plantain?

Function:

1. Anti-inflammatory effect: Rats orally take 0.5g/kg or 1g/kg of Plantago pectin, which has obvious inhibitory effect on inflammatory edema caused by formaldehyde or dextran.

2. Effects on urinary system: plantain has a certain diuretic effect, which can increase the water excretion of dogs, rabbits and people, and increase the excretion of urea, uric acid and sodium chloride.

3. Antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects: Plantago decoction could significantly increase the threshold of cough-inducing electrical stimulation in cats at high and low doses, and increased with the increase of dose.

4. Anti-pathogenic microorganism function: plantain water infusion agent has different degree of inhibition effect on concentric trichophyton, microspore trichophyton, astroid nocardia and so on in test tube.

5. Effect on stomach and intestinal tract: give Pavlov small stomach and stomach disease dogs orally with plantain wood extract or infusion 0.5g/kg, which has bidirectional regulation effect on gastric juice secretion; it has antagonistic effect on excessive gastric juice secretion caused by pilocarpine and insufficient gastric juice secretion caused by adrenaline. Plantago has an inhibitory effect on the stomach in the working state, but has no effect on the stomach in the quiet state. Plantain can also temporarily increase intestinal secretion, intestinal movement is not significantly affected.

6. Other effects: Plantain extract has weak inhibitory effect on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma and mouse sarcoma S180. Plantaginin can slow down the heart rate, increase the amplitude and increase the blood pressure in rabbits in small dose, and cause cardiac paralysis and decrease the blood pressure in large dose. It also deepens and slows breathing, promotes secretion of the bronchus and digestive tract, and promotes movement of the intestine and uterus.

Plantago leaves all root, leaf blade smooth, broadly ovate, margin undulate, there are not obvious blunt teeth, five main veins, raised to the back of the leaf, into a rib into the petiole, leaf blade often as long as the petiole. Spring, summer and autumn plant body central spike, flowers small, corolla not significant. Fruit ellipsoid, style persistent at tip, lid fissured at maturity, seeds shed. The seed has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heat and improving eyesight, eliminating phlegm and stopping diarrhea. So, what are the characteristics of plantain?

1. Plantago radicis tufted and bearded. Leaves basal, long stipitate; leaves contracted, long elliptic or broadly ovate after flattening; 4 - 13 cm long, 2 - 8 cm wide; surface grayish green or dirty green, with 5 to 7 distinct arcuate veins; apex obtuse or short pointed, base broadly cuneate, entire or irregularly undulate shallow teeth, spike, capsule elliptic, circumfid, slightly fragrant, taste slightly bitter.

2. Taproot conical, straight and long before flatcar. Leaf blade is narrower, long elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 5~14 cm long, 1~3 cm wide, edge has denticulate, base narrow. Spike top flowers dense, the rest as above.

Sweet, cold.

[Channel Return] Liver, kidney, lung and small intestine meridians.

Clear heat diuretic, cool blood, detoxification. Indications: bladder heat, dysuria, leucorrhea, diarrhea due to summer-heat dampness, epistaxis, hematuria, red eyes due to liver heat, sore throat, carbuncle and sore poison.

Ancient clinical

For heat, stone, blood, urine, women leucorrhea, summer damp diarrhea; for liver heat, red eyes, sore throat, cheek, carbuncle swelling sores and other diseases. In addition, plantain also treats phlegm heat cough, hypertension, nephritis see urine short red adverse, and gouty arthritis.

Contraindications:

Those who suffer from internal injury, fatigue, yang qi depression, kidney deficiency, essence slippery and no damp-heat inside should be taken with caution.

"Herbal Classic Shu": internal injury fatigue, yang depression disease, should not be used, kidney qi collapse, avoid with light infiltration medicine.

"Bencao Huiyan": kidney deficiency cold especially should avoid it.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica":"Changshan for the envoy."

The above is a small series of plantain introduction, hope to help everyone.

1. Plantago radicis tufted and bearded. Leaves basal, long stipitate; leaves contracted, long elliptic or broadly ovate after flattening; 4 - 13 cm long, 2 - 8 cm wide; surface grayish green or dirty green, with 5 to 7 distinct arcuate veins; apex obtuse or short pointed, base broadly cuneate, entire or irregularly undulate shallow teeth, spike, capsule elliptic, circumfid, slightly fragrant, taste slightly bitter.

2. Taproot conical, straight and long before flatcar. Leaf blade is narrower, long elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 5~14 cm long, 1~3 cm wide, edge has denticulate, base narrow. Spike top flowers dense, the rest as above.

Sweet, cold.

[Channel Return] Liver, kidney, lung and small intestine meridians.

Clear heat diuretic, cool blood, detoxification. Indications: bladder heat, dysuria, leucorrhea, diarrhea due to summer-heat dampness, epistaxis, hematuria, red eyes due to liver heat, sore throat, carbuncle and sore poison.

Ancient clinical

For heat, stone, blood, urine, women leucorrhea, summer damp diarrhea; for liver heat, red eyes, sore throat, cheek, carbuncle swelling sores and other diseases. In addition, plantain also treats phlegm heat cough, hypertension, nephritis see urine short red adverse, and gouty arthritis.

Contraindications:

Those who suffer from internal injury, fatigue, yang qi depression, kidney deficiency, essence slippery and no damp-heat inside should be taken with caution.

"Herbal Classic Shu": internal injury fatigue, yang depression disease, should not be used, kidney qi collapse, avoid with light infiltration medicine.

"Bencao Huiyan": kidney deficiency cold especially should avoid it.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica":"Changshan for the envoy."

The above is a small series of plantain introduction, hope to help everyone.