Plantain pictures

Next to rural houses, beside rice fields or under longan trees, there grows a kind of inconspicuous green plant. It looks plain and more like a weed, but many people who "know the goods" pull it out and boil it in water to drink, saying that it can help urination, clear away heat and detoxify, clear the eyes, and resolve phlegm.

This kind of grass is called plantain, and people in the countryside usually call it pig ear grass. Because its shape is a bit like the two ears of a pig, people often cut it to feed pigs.

The role and efficacy of plantain

Plantain tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It can enter the liver meridian, spleen meridian, lung meridian, and small intestine meridian. Its key effects and functions are clearing away heat and fire, and promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. Generally speaking, plantain has the following main functions:

1. Diuretic and diuretic, treat edema. Plantain can promote the excretion of urea, uric acid and sodium ions from the body.

2. Antiviral treatment: Plantain is helpful in inhibiting pathogens such as Trichophyton, Microspore Ringworm, and Nocardia.

3. Adjust gastric acid metabolism. Plantain has a certain buffering effect on excessive gastric acid metabolism caused by rutin and insufficient gastric acid metabolism caused by adrenal hormones.

4. Clearing away heat and removing internal heat, freshly chopped plantain can be applied externally to skin ulcers. It has anti-inflammatory effects, and the wounds heal quickly without leaving scars.

5. Plantain also contains a substance called petroleum ether, which has anti-depressant effects.

6. Relieve cough and eliminate phlegm. Plantain can improve the metabolism of bronchial and bronchitis mucus, and achieve the effect of relieving cough and eliminating phlegm.

Nowadays, plantain has been proven to be effective in treating chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, mumps, subacute icteric hepatitis, hypertension, glaucoma, childhood diarrhea, etc., and its uses are very wide.

Plantain can be blanched in water, chopped and mixed with cold dishes, stewed in pork tripe, or dried and mixed with green tea leaves to make tea. While enjoying the benefits of psyllium, it is also important to understand these common questions about psyllium.

When using plantain, be careful about this

First, plantain is cold in nature, so people with poor gastrointestinal function, weak qi and blood, spermatorrhea, weak qi, as well as women during their menstrual period and those who are breastfeeding should eat less or not eat it.

Second, you cannot take psyllium for a long time, otherwise it will cause gastrointestinal problems and hypocalcemia, and the basal metabolic rate will be too fast.

Third, as mentioned earlier, psyllium is good for diuresis, but it can also easily cause hypokalemia or electrolyte abnormalities. You need to take psyllium based on your physical condition.

Fourth, although plantain has certain medicinal properties and can treat some symptoms, you cannot rely solely on plantain to treat diseases, nor can you take plantain for a long time, otherwise you will lose the big picture for the small.

Although not well known, plantain has many benefits for humans. The ancient Chinese people were also very smart and discovered the functions and effects of plantain very early. Again, although plantain has many benefits to the body, the more the better. You just have to take it according to your health condition and don't blindly follow the trend.