? Plantago is a perennial herb, which likes to grow in vegetable gardens, roadsides, fields and depressions. There are more seedlings and less land. Leaves with roots, long and wide oval shape, long handle. Flowering stems are drawn from the center of leaves, forming spikes in dense clusters, and the flowers are small and green and white. Capsule ovoid-elliptic. The seeds are ovoid. The most widely used is to relieve cough and fever. In normal life, if you feel itchy throat, cough and sore throat when swallowing, you can use plantain to decoct it, which has the effect of relieving cough and clearing heat.

Plantain can clear liver, improve eyesight, clear away heat and toxic materials, and can be used for liver heat, conjunctival congestion, parotitis, erysipelas and other diseases. It can be taken orally or used externally, but mainly for external use. If you have constipation, you can take it with honey or rhubarb. Although the efficacy of plantain is powerful, it should be used according to the results of syndrome differentiation and treatment when it is used. If necessary, please use it under the guidance of a doctor.

Plantain is a kind of familiar Chinese herbal medicine, which has diuretic, detumescence, heat-clearing and detoxification effects. Banana seedlings grown in spring can also be eaten as vegetables. Blanch plantain jiaozi, steamed stuffed bun and plantain in water, chop, mix well with meat stuffing, add salt, soy sauce, spiced powder, chicken essence, oyster sauce and sesame oil, make stuffing, and wrap it in jiaozi or steamed stuffed bun. Take a proper amount of flour, beat in two eggs, add water and stir into a paste, wash and chop plantain, mix in batter, add seasoning to taste, add a proper amount of oil to the pot, add batter, turn over and fry the other side until both sides are golden.

Plantago can make breathing deeper, louder and slower, and promote bronchial secretion, so it is not suitable for people with excessive phlegm. Although it has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and cooling blood, some people use plantain to treat chronic bronchitis, but it is only aimed at common lung heat cough and asthma, which is actually not suitable for smokers. Plantago asiatica has the function of resisting pathogenic microorganisms, but its bactericidal effect is indistinguishable. Long-term consumption will destroy intestinal flora and cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Moreover, patients with gastrointestinal neurosis should not eat it.