What are the effects of plantain

Plantain is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Plantain is relatively common and its growth characteristic is that it has fibrous roots. Plantain has many benefits, including improving eyesight, clearing away heat, and removing phlegm. It is also helpful for urinary problems. Plantain can be boiled in water or used to make porridge.

Plantain is a perennial herb, up to 50cm tall including the scroll, with fibrous roots. Leaves basal, with long petioles, almost as long as or longer than the leaf blade, with enlarged base. The leaves are ovate or oval, 4 to 12 cm long and 2 to 7 cm wide, with pointed and blunt tips and narrow petioles at the base. The entire leaf margin is irregularly wavy and shallowly serrated, and there are usually 5 to 7 arcuate veins on the leaf. There are many scrolls on the front of the plankton, ranging from three to five, with flowers 12 to 50 cm high, angular and sparsely hairy. The flowers are lake green in color. The ovule is nearly oval, dark brown, and can be used as medicine. Li Shizhen said: "There is a method of eating the cut shoots of Plantain, which was often considered a vegetable in the past. Even now, wild people still pick and eat it."

Plantain has many aliases. Because this grass grows well on roadsides and in the tracks of cattle and horses, it is also known as Plantain, Dangdao, and Niuyi. People in Youzhou called it ox tongue grass, and people in Jiangdong believed that toads like to hide underground, so they called it toad clothes.

The Chinese medicinal herb Plantago seed is also known as Niu Mo Cao Zi, Che Gulu Cao Zi, Plantago kernel, and Niu She Cai. It is the dried and mature plant of the Plantaginaceae family.

The nature, flavor and function of plantain

Plantago, sweet, cold, enters the palm of hand, Yangming meridian. It can promote diuresis, clear away heat, improve eyesight and eliminate phlegm. It is used for urinary obstruction, stranguria, leucorrhea, hematuria, jaundice, edema, dysentery and diarrhea, epistaxis, red and swollen eyes, sore throat, cough and skin ulcers.

According to modern scientific analysis, the young leaves of plantain contain water, carbohydrates, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin C, as well as nutrients such as bile alkaloids, potassium salts, citric acid, oxalic acid, and aucubin. It is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of helping to relieve stranguria, clear away heat and improve eyesight, and clear the lungs and resolve phlegm. It is mainly used to treat urinary incontinence, diarrhea caused by high summer temperatures, red and swollen eyes, etc. In addition to its medicinal uses, plantain can also be eaten. It can be made into plantain leaf amaranth porridge, plantain stewed pig tripe, plantain and small watermelon porridge, plantain tea, plantain leaf radish porridge, etc.

Plantago is sweet in taste, cold in nature, non-toxic, and is mainly used to treat distension and pain in the lower abdomen and kidney sac, difficulty urinating or pain after urinating, promote urination, and remove dampness. It can treat injuries to men and eyebrows, urgency, frequent urination, pain when urinating and loss of appetite in women, and nourish the lungs, strengthen yin and benefit essence.

The whole plantain is a treasure, it is edible and has medicinal value. It is sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, and has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting urination, removing phlegm and relieving cough, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and removing dampness and arthralgia. "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that long-term use can make the body light and delay aging. Because Plantain has great therapeutic effects, people often use 50g of fresh Plantain to mix with other cold dishes to treat stomatitis. Or use 30g of fresh plantain, 100g of fresh celery, and 100g of radish to make juice, add honey and stew it, once a day to treat high blood pressure. The ovule of Plantain is also called Plantago seed, which has the effect of helping to relieve stranguria. Cook 10g of Plantain Seed with white rice and add sugar to treat kidney inflammation edema, cystitis, and urethritis. Or use 30g of Plantago seeds and 60g of Dioscorea zingiberensis, grind them into powder and drink it with water to treat vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distension, etc. caused by excessive food intake due to spleen deficiency.

Main functions and effects:

1. Promote diuresis and relieve stranguria (stranguria, edema, hematuria); 2. Clear away heat and remove toxins (carbuncle, dysentery); 3. Clear the liver and improve eyesight; 4. Remove phlegm; 5. Stop diarrhea. Chemical composition: The whole plant contains Plantago astiatice L, Aucin, ursolic acid, B-sitosterol, n-hexadecane, B-sitosterol palmitic acid ester, stigmasterol palmitic acid ester, vitamin B, vitamin C, and psyllium pectin (Plantaglusidc) (composed of D-galacturonic acid methyl ester, D-sucrose, L-arabinose, L-rhamnose, etc.). Fatty acids such as protein, succinic acid, adenine, choline, catalpol, stearic acid, arachidic acid, linolenic acid, and menthyl acetate.

Plantain diet therapy

Young leaves and ovules; Preparation method: Pick the young leaves, wash them, rinse them with boiling water, and then stir-fry them. The ovules are picked and harvested and can be cooked into porridge or made into sauce for consumption.

The dietary therapy is as follows:

"It has the effects of clearing stomach heat, promoting urination, and reducing edema. When combined into a soup, they complement each other, and the effect of promoting diuresis and reducing edema is stronger. It can also lower blood lipids and blood pressure, making people healthy and beautiful.

Ingredients: 150 grams of fresh plantain, 500 grams of winter melon.

Preparation: Wash and remove the roots of fresh plantain; wash the winter melon with skin and seeds, and cut into thick pieces. Put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add 1500 ml (about 6 bowls of water) or more of water, bring to a boil over high heat then simmer for one and a half hours over low heat, add appropriate amount of salt and peanut oil. It is suitable for long-term drinking for weight loss. If you have stomach discomfort, you can add an appropriate amount of lean meat to neutralize stomach gas. This amount is for 1 to 2 people.

100 grams of plantain, 10 grams each of bamboo leaf meat and raw licorice, and an appropriate amount of white sugar. Boil them into a soup and drink it instead of tea, 1 dose per day. This recipe has antibacterial and antiviral effects, and has good effects on urinary tract infections, viral hepatitis, etc.

60-90 grams of fresh plantain (20-30 grams of dried plantain), 200 grams of pork tripe, and a little salt. Cut the pig's stomach into small pieces, add an appropriate amount of water and plantain to make soup, season with salt, drink the soup and eat the pig's stomach. Twice a day. This recipe is effective for cystitis and urethritis.

1. Treating Fatty Liver Disease:

1. Fish with Herba Plantaine and Amomum villosum: 60 grams each of Herba Plantaine and Herba Plantaine, 10 grams of Amomum villosum, 1 carp, and appropriate amounts of salt and ginger. Remove the scales, gills and internal organs of the carp, add water and cook with the other three ingredients. After the fish is cooked, add salt and ginger to season.

2. Atractylodes and jujube: 12 grams each of Atractylodes, Plantain, and Curcuma, and 120 grams of jujube. Wrap Atractylodes macrocephala, Plantain and Curcuma aromatica in gauze, add water and cook together with dates, making sure the dates absorb as much of the medicinal liquid as possible, then remove the residue and eat the dates.

Clear away heat and dispel summer heat:

1. 30 grams of fresh plantain leaves, 50 grams of white rice, and 2 stalks of green onion. Clean plantain leaves and scallion whites, boil them in water to extract the juice, add rice and cook into porridge, take one dose per day for 5 to 7 days. It can promote dampness and relieve stranguria, treat heat in the bladder, difficult urination, and painful and stifling urination.

2. Take 10 grams each of plantain or its seeds, chrysanthemum, and cassia twig, decocted in water and taken orally. It can clear away heat, remove toxins, and treat enteritis and diarrhea.

3. Take 10 grams each of plantain or its seeds, dandelion and honeysuckle, decocted in water and taken orally. It can clear away heat and toxins, and treat enteritis and diarrhea.

4. Take 10 grams each of plantain or its seeds, mulberry leaves, and selfheal, decocted in water and taken orally. It can clear away heat, promote lung function, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and treat lung heat cough and yellow and sticky phlegm.

5. Take 10 grams of plantain or its seeds, 5 grams of tongcao, 30 grams each of imperata root and talcum powder, decocted in water and taken orally. It can clear away heat, relieve stranguria, cool blood and stop bleeding, and treat urinary tract infections and hematuria.

6. Take 10 grams each of plantain, wild chrysanthemum, houttuynia cordata, and honeysuckle, decocted in water and applied to the affected area. It can clear away heat and toxins, and treat heat carbuncle and summer heat rash.