Waybread and lanceolate Plantain

Waybread and lanceolate Plantain

Waybread and lancetshaped: Description. Perennial herb, basal rosette of long-petiolate, large, broadly ovate leaves with arcuate veins along the leaf (lantsetolistny with lanceolate leaves long). A long cylindrical spike. The flowers are small with chetyrehrazdelnym corolla, four stamens, pistil alone. Fruit - a box with a flip lid. Plant height 15-30 cm
Flowering time. June - September.
Habitats. Along roads, in gardens, forest clearings, meadows. Cultivated in plantations of medicinal plants.
The applied part. Leaves, buds, seeds and juice.
Collection time. Leaf harvested in June-July and seeds - in the fall.
Waybread and lancetshaped: Chemical composition. Leaf plantain contains glycoside-aukubin, acid (citric acid, oleanolic, ascorbic), traces of alkaloids, vitamins A, K, protein, tannins and bitter substances, many of potassium, mucus, saponins, resins, enzymes. Seeds of Plantago major contain fatty oil, slime carbohydrate.
Waybread and lancetshaped: Action. Antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, analgesic, expectorant, "blood-purifying" antibacterial, sedative, hypotensive, phytoncide has biological activity. Dilutes and removes mucus in diseases of the respiratory system, protects the stomach lining and intestines from irritation, enhances the secretory activity of gastric and intestinal peristalsis, improves the appetite, improves bladder function. Clears the sores of pus, stops inflammation, heals wounds and dry - put a fresh sheet of comminuted. Lowers blood pressure, a positive effect on cholesterol metabolism, contributes to scarring.
Waybread and lancetshaped: Application. Coughing, lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis, pleurisy, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, asthma, catarrh throat. In acute and chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (enterocolitis, dysentery, gastric and duodenal ulcers, hemorrhoids, gastritis with normal and reduced gastric acidity, flatulence, belching, heartburn), kidney and bladder. Diarrhea - the seeds. Liver diseases, jaundice, malaria, atherosclerosis, headaches, high blood pressure. Inflammation of the eye with a purulent discharge, inflammation of the gums - externally. When the pain in the ear-bury the juice of plantain. With a variety of skin. Disorders (rashes, herpes, festering wounds, n.shah, abscesses, bruises, burns, calico, bees, tumors, eczema) - External.
Method of application.
1. 1 tablespoon plantain leaf to 1 cup of boiling water, a thermos for 2 hours. Drink 1 / 2 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating.
2. Of psyllium powder (and if the seeds, then grind) 1 g 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating, chronic diarrhea, dysentery.
3. Plantain leaf powder 10 g to 90 g of petroleum jelly rubbed to a uniform mass-ointment for chronic ulcers of the skin, eczema, weeping, wounds.
4. 10 g of psyllium per 1 cup boiling water, a thermos and drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day - an expectorant.
5. Fresh comminuted sheet apply a thick layer - sucking the poison.
6. Fresh chopped leaves and mix with sugar (1:1). Insist the heat two weeks. Drink juice and 1 tablespoon
3-4 times a day for 20-30 minutes. before a meal - with stomach cancer and lung cancer.
7. The juice of the plantain leaf is mixed with honey (1:1), boil for 20 minutes. Store in a closed form. Drink 1 tablespoon pine-3 times a day at the gastro-intestinal and pulmonary diseases.
Contraindication. Gastritis with acidity of gastric juice.