Product name : HERBA PLANTAGINIS

Item : 79351486227

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    Plantain has another name called wheel dish, is the perennial herb of plantaceae. It grows in mountains, roadsides, flower gardens, riversides and other places. Rhizome short and thick, with dense fibrous roots. The leaves are all rooted, smooth, broadly ovate, with wavy edges, with inconspicuous blunt teeth between them, five main veins, protruding toward the back of the leaf, extending into the petiole in a rib shape, and the blade is often as long as the petiole. Spikes emerge from the center of the plant in spring, summer and autumn, with small flowers and inconspicuous corollas. Bears oval capsules with persistent style at the top, cracks when ripe, and sheds seeds. It has the effects of inducing water to relieve stranguria, clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing liver and improving eyesight, eliminating phlegm and stopping diarrhea. Not only medicinal, but also edible, loved by people.
        In southern China, people in Ningbo and Zhoushan eat plantain grass, and people in Wenzhou use plantain grass to drink soup to relieve internal heat. Plantain is also a kind of delicious wild vegetable, which is called "wheel vegetable" in Northeast my country. In Northeast my country, wheel vegetable is usually the most delicious from mid-May to early June. The method is also very simple: use freshly grown Wash the plantain, put it in boiling water and cook for 15 minutes, put it in cold water and wash it again, twist it with your hands, then put it on a plate, and eat it with Northeast soybean paste. I learned it from my friends when I went to a friend's house in Northeast China.
        Edible plantain, parts: young leaves and seeds; conditioning method: pick young leaves and wash them, first boil them in boiling water, and then stir-fry them. The seeds are harvested and can be cooked into porridge or made into sauce. Collection sites: roadsides, gardens, and wastelands below 2,500 meters above sea level. Collection time: all year round, spring is the best.

       Pharmacological effects of plantain: diuretic effect, and can increase the excretion of urea and uric acid. It can act on bronchial secretions to increase respiratory movement and slow down phlegm and cough. Every 100 grams of young leaves and shoots of plantain contains 6 grams of water, 10 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of protein, 1 gram of fat, 309 mg of calcium, 175 mg of phosphorus, 25 mg of iron, 5.8 mg of carotene, 23 mg of vitamin C, and choline , potassium salt, citric acid, oxalic acid, peach leaf coral II and other ingredients. Plantain is sweet and cold in nature and has the effects of diuresis, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and eliminating phlegm. Indications for gonorrhea, hematuria, urinary obstruction, jaundice, edema. Dysentery, diarrhea, red eyes and swelling, sore throat, etc. "Cao Xing Lun" contains "cure hematuria, can nourish the five internal organs, improve eyesight, facilitate urination, and relieve five stranguria." "Materia Medica Fengyuan" contains "if the essence is not solid, it is forbidden to use it."

        Plantain granules: 1000g plantain, appropriate amount of sugar. Add water to decoct the plantain for two times, combine the decoction and filter, concentrate to 2:1, add 2 times the amount of ethanol to precipitate, filter, recover ethanol, concentrate into a thick paste, add the prepared white sugar powder after cooling, Mix evenly, pass through a 16-mesh sieve to make granules, dry and sub-package, each package is equivalent to 20g of crude drug. Function clearing away heat and promoting dampness. For acute icteric and anicteric hepatitis. Oral, each bag, 2 times a day. (Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine Preparation Materials, Beijing Medical College, 1971). It is used for diseases such as liver heat, red eyes, sore throat, mumps, erysipelas, carbuncle and sore. For erysipelas, it can be mashed with motherwort and gentian for external application; for those with constipation, it can be decocted with honey or rhubarb. In addition, plantain can also cure phlegm-heat cough, high blood pressure, nephritis and gouty arthritis

​Barcode: 79351486227
Ingredients: Plantain
Specifications: 16oz (454g)
Efficacy: heat-clearing and diuretic, cooling blood, detoxification. Indications for heat stagnation in the bladder, difficulty in urination, stranguria, diarrhea due to heat-dampness, epistaxis, hematuria, red eyes due to liver heat, sore throat, carbuncle and sore.