What is the difference between money grass and plantain?

Both Moneywort and Plantain are wild vegetables that grow in wasteland and have great medicinal value. Centella asiatica has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, relieving stranguria and reducing swelling. As for Plantain, although it tastes sweet and cold, it also has certain effects of promoting diuresis, clearing heat and improving eyesight, which is beneficial to everyone's better fitness and health.

Moneywort

Form: This product belongs to the Plantaginaceae family, and Plantago genus. It grows in fields, on hillsides, roadsides and wastelands beside houses. Perennial herb. The rhizome is shortened and thickened, with dense fibrous roots. All leaves are basal, with smooth, broadly ovate leaves, wavy edges, and inconspicuous blunt teeth in between. There are five main veins that bulge toward the back of the leaf and extend into the petiole in rib-like shapes. The leaf blade is often the same length as the petiole. In spring, summer and autumn, spike inflorescences emerge from the center of the plant. The flowers are small and the corolla is not prominent. The fruit is an oval capsule with a persistent style at the top. When ripe, the lid cracks and the seeds are scattered.

Morphological characteristics: Perennial herb, stemless, with many slender fibrous roots; leaves are basal, thin and papery, ovate to broadly ovate, with 5 main veins, leaf base extending downward to petiole, 6-15 long, 3-8 wide; flowering all year round, spike inflorescence emerges from the leaf cluster, about 15-30 long; small flowers are white, corolla is 4-lobed, 4 stamens; cap fruit is oblong, containing 4-6 seeds.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and dampness, relieving stranguria and reducing swelling. It is used for hot stranguria, sand stranguria, painful and difficult urination, jaundice and red urine, carbuncles, furuncles, snake bites, liver and gallstones, and urinary tract stones.

application

Edible parts: young leaves and seeds; Preparation method: Wash the young leaves of the croaker, rinse them with boiling water, and then stir-fry. The seeds can be harvested and cooked into porridge or made into sauce for consumption. Collection location: roadsides, gardens, and wastelands below 2,500 meters above sea level. Collection time: All year round, best in spring.

Plantain

Plantain is the young leaf buds of Plantagoasiatica L., a plant of the Plantaginaceae family, also known as wheel vegetable. Commonly found on roadsides, ridges and ditches.

Every 100 grams of young leaves and buds of plantain contain 79 grams of water, 10 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of protein, and 10 grams of fat.

Fat 1g, calcium 309mg, phosphorus 175mg, iron 25mg, carotene 5.8mg, vitamin

C23 mg, as well as choline, potassium salt, citric acid, oxalic acid, and peach coral II.

Plantain is sweet and cold in nature, and has the effects of promoting diuresis, clearing heat, improving eyesight and removing phlegm. Indications: gonorrhea, urine

Blood, urinary obstruction, jaundice, edema, dysentery, diarrhea, red and swollen eyes, sore throat, etc. On the Nature of Grass

It is said that it can “treat hematuria, nourish the five internal organs, improve eyesight, promote urination, and relieve the five types of stranguria.” "Ben Cao Feng Yuan" records "Ruoxu