What are the effects and ways to eat plantain?

Everyone knows that plantain is a traditional Chinese medicinal material, but most people know little about its medicinal properties. In fact, plantain is effective for many diseases, and there are many things to pay attention to when using it. I believe that everyone is not very familiar with the various details of using plantain. The editor will carefully introduce to you the effects and usage of plantain. I hope you will have a certain understanding of it.

Aliases:

Five-root grass, plantain fruit, toad husk seeds, pig ear spikes, phoenix eye kernels, and maltose.

【Medicinal material category】：

Whole Herb

【Nature and flavor】：

Sweet in taste; cold in nature.

Meridians:

It enters the liver, kidney and bladder meridians.

【Medicinal Part】：

It is the whole herb of Plantago, Plantago asiatica and Plantago asiatica of the Plantaginaceae family.

【Origin and distribution】：

Widely distributed throughout the country.

【Morphological characteristics】：

Plantain is a perennial herb with a height of 50 cm including the flower stem and fibrous roots. There are several peduncles, 12 to 50 cm high, angular and sparsely hairy; the spike inflorescence is 2/5 to 1/2 of the pedicel; the flowers are light green, each with one persistent bract, which is triangular; there are 4 calyxes, slightly connate at the base, elliptic-quadrangular or ovate, persistent; the corolla is small, colloid, the corolla tube is ovate, 4-lobed at the apex, the lobes are triangular, and curled outwards; there are 4 stamens, attached near the base of the corolla tube, alternate with the corolla lobes, the anthers are oblong, 2-chambered, with triangular protrusions at the apex, and the filaments are linear; there is 1 pistil, the ovary is superior, ovate, 2-chambered (pseudo-4-chambered), and the style is 1, linear and hairy.

【Usage and Dosage】:

For internal use: decoction, 15-30g, fresh product 30-60g; or mash into juice and take. For external use: take appropriate amount, decoct in water for washing, mash for application or squeeze out the juice for application.

[Effects and functions of plantain]:

Clears heat and promotes diuresis; cools blood; detoxifies. It is used to treat heat accumulation in the bladder; difficulty urinating; stranguria and leukorrhea; diarrhea due to summer heat and dampness; epistaxis; hematuria; red eyes due to liver heat; sore throat; carbuncles and ulcers. It is used for edema, oliguria, painful stranguria due to heat, diarrhea due to summer heat and dampness, cough due to phlegm and heat, hematemesis, epistaxis, carbuncles and sores.

Through the editor’s introduction to plantain above, I believe everyone will be more convinced of the medicinal properties of plantain. In fact, if someone in the family knows how to use Chinese medicine to treat the symptoms, it will be a very beneficial thing. I hope that what I have learned about the medicinal properties of plantain will be helpful to everyone, and that everyone can have a healthy body.