What are the medicinal values of plantain?

Plantain has high medicinal value and can treat many diseases. Perhaps some friends do not have a special understanding of the medicinal value of plantain. Today, let's give you a brief introduction. Let's learn about it together.

Information about plantain

Plantain, also known as plantain, pork belly, ash pot grass, wheelpulley, toad leaves, etc., grows in the mountains, roadsides, flower beds, riverside and other places. Rhizome shortening and thickening, densely bearded roots. All the leaves are root, the leaf blade is smooth, widely ovate, the margin is undulate, there are inconspicuous obtuse teeth between them, the main veins are five, protruding to the back of the leaf, extending into the petiole like a rib, the leaf is often as long as the petiole.

Annual or biennial herbs. Taproot long, with many lateral roots, ±fleshy. The rhizome is short. Leaves rosulate, procumbent, obliquely spreading or erect; leaf blade papery, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-12 m long and 1-3.5 m wide, apex acute or slightly obtuse, margin with shallowly undulate obtuse teeth, irregularly serrate or teeth, base broadly cuneate to narrowly cuneate, extending to petiole, veins 5-7, slightly sunken above, obviously raised abaxially, sparsely white pubescent on both surfaces. Petiole 2-6 cm long, base enlarged into a sheath. Inflorescences 3-10 m long; peduncle 5-18 cm long, longitudinally striate, sparsely white pubescent; spikes finely Terete, distally dense, base often interrupted, 6-12 cm long; bracts triangular-ovate, 2-3.5 mm long, concave, glabrous, keel broad and thick, wider than both sides, not extending or extending to tip.

The Medicinal value of plantain

1. Plantain has a long history of treating eye diseases. Zhang Ji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem "answer to Wei Kaizhou sending plantain son": "plantain seed in Kaizhou noon, making medicine and entering it all have spirit." Shame makes you pity the sick eye and send idle people for more than three thousand miles. " I came to thank my friend for sending him the plantain collected at noon from Kaizhou, more than 3,000 miles away.

2. Plantain grass is slightly cold, slippery and beneficial, and it is often used in combination with Aristolochia manshuriensis and talc in clinic, such as damp-heat injection, urine leaching pain and so on. It can also be used with Radix Rehmanniae, cinnamon, aconite, Achyranthes bidentata and other solid diseases such as kidney deficiency and edema.

3. Plantain can promote diuresis and dampness, distinguish turbidity and stop diarrhea, that is, it is appropriate to urinate with real bowels and to treat watery diarrhea caused by dampness. Commonly used in summer dampness diarrhea, mild symptoms, can be used alone, with plantain research powder, rice drink to serve, the heavier can be used with Poria cocos, Polyporus umbellatus, alisma alisma, Coix seed and so on.

Edible method of Plantago asiatica

Cold Plantago lanceolata

1. Preparation: plantain young plants, buds and various seasonings in spring and summer

2. The first step of making dumplings with plantain is the same: wash, scald, dry and chop.

3. Put plantain into a bowl and add appropriate amount of salt, monosodium glutamate, mashed garlic, vinegar, sesame oil, prickly ash oil and other seasonings.

Second, stir-fried plantain

1. Preparation: plantain young plants, buds, chopped onions, sliced garlic and pepper in spring and summer

2. Remove impurities from plantain, wash, scald and dry.

3. In a frying pan, saute with pepper, chopped onions and garlic slices. Add dried plantain and stir-fry quickly. Stir well and serve.

Third, plantain dumplings

1. Preparation: plantain young plants, buds, meat stuffing and all kinds of seasonings in spring and summer

2. Wash the young plants and buds of Plantago asiatica, blanch them with boiling water until cooked, and set aside to cut up and dry the water.

3. Mix the meat stuffing and dried plantain with seasoning, and then the dumpling stuffing is ready.

4. This method is also suitable for making pies and steamed buns, all of which are similar.

This is the end of the introduction of the value of plantain herbs. I believe that after reading it, we have a certain understanding of plantain. If there are friends who want to eat plantain, you can refer to the relevant knowledge I introduce to you.