Alias: cartwheel vegetable, old clipwort, pig's belly vegetable, gray basin grass, cartwheel vegetable contraindicated people:? Physical weakness or slippery semen, Qi is not solid crowd is not recommended to take. Suitable for the crowd:? The general population can be eaten.

The plant has been used as a medicine since ancient times, in the "Shennong Materia Medica", "Famous Doctors", "Yunnan Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica" and so on. Materia Medica" and other famous Chinese medicine books, the plantain has a detailed record. Plantain has diuretic, cough, phlegm, antidiarrhea, eyesight and other effects. Young plantain, is often eaten one of the wild vegetables, but also one of the best raw materials of green grass tea, plantain is rich in gelatin, after eating water absorption expansion, can promote intestinal peristalsis, treatment of constipation, eat will have a sense of satiety.

Nutritional value

Each 100 grams of plantain young leaf buds containing 10 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of protein, 1 gram of fat, 309 milligrams of calcium, 175 milligrams of phosphorus, 25 milligrams of iron, carotene 58 milligrams of carotenoids, vitamin C 23 milligrams, as well as choline, potassium salts, citric acid, oxalic acid, coral coral glycosides and other components. The seeds contain a lot of mucilage, a uniform gelatinous liquid composed of xylose, arabinose, galacturonic acid, rhamnose and galactose. In addition, it also contains psyllium enolic acid, succinic acid, adenine, psyllium sugar, choline and so on. The whole herb contains psyllium glycoside, myrtle coral glycoside, ursolic acid, glutenol and so on.

Edible efficacy

Inducing diuresis, clearing heat, brightening the eyes, expectoration, used for urinary incontinence, gonorrhea, leucorrhoea, blood in urine, jaundice, edema, hot dysentery and diarrhea, epistaxis, eye redness and swelling pain, sore throat, cough, skin ulcers.