Plantain is a common wild vegetable in rural areas. Of course, many people don't know its nutritional value or specific name. But in the eyes of Chinese medicine, they think this wild vegetable has very high medicinal value. The medicinal value of plantain is too great. In addition to relieving cough and resolving phlegm, there are three benefits waiting for you!

Cough is a very common situation in life. Basically everyone coughs, and some people often cough. Drinking plantain helps to relieve cough and asthma. If you drink plantain regularly all your life, you can also excrete lung toxins and make your breathing smoother.

In addition to relieving cough and asthma, plantain has the following three functions:

1. Anti-inflammatory and bactericidal. Plantago asiatica has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. Like people with oral ulcers, drinking plantain water regularly can help us inhibit bacteria and alleviate the problem of oral ulcers. Mashed psyllium leaves and applied to bites can effectively relieve itching or redness of skin.

2. Relieve gout: For patients with gout, you can soak plantain in water every day, which can promote blood circulation in the body, excrete uric acid in time, stabilize uric acid in the body, and have good curative effect, which can greatly alleviate gout symptoms.

3. Stomach regulation: People with poor stomach can choose to drink plantain water, which can not only relieve the symptoms of stomachache and diarrhea, but also regulate appetite, improve gastrointestinal peristalsis, help balance bacteria in the intestine, make the intestine healthier, and enhance the body's resistance and immunity.

Plantain, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Dry or fresh whole grass in front of car or flatbed. Plantago, a perennial herb, has tufted leaves on the ground, oval or oval, with 3 ~ 7 thick veins on the whole edge. Pedicels are pulled out of leaves, the flowers are extremely white, and the fruits become slender spikes. When mature, the seeds are small and dark brown, and bloom from April to July.

Physiological characteristics: It grows in Shan Ye, roadsides, flower beds, rivers and other places. Rhizomes are short and thick with dense fibrous roots. All leaves are rooted, smooth, broadly oval, with wavy edges, inconspicuous blunt teeth, five main veins, protruding to the back of the leaves and reaching into the petiole like ribs, and the leaves are often as long as the petiole. In spring, summer and autumn, spikes appear in the center of the plant, with small flowers and inconspicuous corollas. It has an oval capsule with a persistent style at the top, which cracks and scatters seeds when it matures. Is beneficial to treating stranguria, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing liver, improving eyesight, resolving phlegm and stopping diarrhea. It is not only medicinal, but also edible.