General formula
Treatment of urinary tract obstruction: one catty of plantain, three liters of water and one and a half liters of decoction, divided into three parts ("elbow back"); Mash the raw plantain into juice for half a minute, add a spoonful of honey and mix well. ("learning from the classics")
Treatment of hematuria: Mash plantain, take juice for five times, and take it on an empty stomach. (Outside Taiwan Province); Plantago asiatica, Lycium barbarum bark and Eclipta prostrata, each San Qian, are stewed in soup. (Mindong Herbs)
Treatment of leucorrhea: Plantago asiatica is mashed with San Qian and mixed with glutinous rice and rice soup. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Treatment of heat dysentery: pound banana leaves into a cup of juice, add honey, fry once or twice, and take it at different temperatures twice. (Sheng Huifang)
Treatment of diarrhea: Plantago four yuan, iron whip two yuan, * * * mashed, washed with water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Treatment of jaundice: white banana is five yuan, Guanyin snail is one or two, and a cup of stewed wine. (Mindong Herbs)
Cure a cold: plantain and dried tangerine peel are decocted in water. (Selected data of new medical methods of Chinese herbal medicines in Inner Mongolia)
Treatment of epistaxis: grind the leaves of plantain and drink them after hydrolysis. (materia medica)
Treatment of hypertension: one or two of Plantago asiatica and Houttuynia cordata are decocted in water. (Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang)
Treatment of red and swollen eyes: Plantago asiatica is naturally squeezed, mixed with nitrate, applied to eye cells when lying flat and washed off the next morning. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu")
Treatment of fire eye: plantain San Qian, herring grass and gypsum, 2 yuan each, decocted in water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Moths for throat obstruction: Rana chensinensis and Pteris multifida. Hit it, add a little frosted plum meat and boiled wine, grind juice, and brush the affected area with goose feathers. ("Talking about nourishing prickly heat")
Treatment of mumps: one or two San Qian of plantain, decocted in water, and sweated with warm boiled water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Treatment of whooping cough: plantain San Qian, decocted in water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Treatment of phlegm cough, dyspnea and hemoptysis: two or two fresh plantains (stewed), five yuan of winter honey or one or two crystal sugar. (Mindong Herbs)
Treatment of convulsion: fresh plantain root and wild chrysanthemum root are 2.5 yuan each. Decoct with water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
Treatment of epilepsy in children: squeeze five ounces of fresh plantain juice, add five dollars of honey and take it with boiling water. (Mindong Herbs)
Treatment of golden sores and bleeding: apply juice before the crash. (Qian Jinfang)
Treatment of sores and ulcers: fresh leaves of Plantago asiatica are taken, fine holes are densely pricked with silver needles, softened with rice soup or boiled water, and the whole leaves are applied to the sores, and changed two or three times a day. It has the function of expelling pus and promoting granulation. (Fujian folk herbs)