Plantain (Large)

General description
The history
Applications
Chemical properties
Precautions
Culinary
Other variants
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There exist three kinds of Plantain that become used the most. Rough Plantain Plantago media, Narrow Plantain Plantago lanceolat and Large Plantain Plantago major (Plantago major spp. major L.) .

The large Plantain can become 15 cm high, but the large varies dependent on the growth circumstances.
The leaves are oval and stand in a rosette the root. On the long subdivided stem small brown-green flowers do not stand. The large Plantain blossoms from June until October. The plant is to be found in road sides, graze and is seen vague as a general occurring weeds.

The large Plantain are fertilized by the wind. The flowers have for that also long flour threads and stem press and have also no crown leaf. The position of the crown leaf is through their colour insects at to pull for the fertilization. This is not for the Plantain necessarily.

It are produced many seeds, until 20,000 seeds per plant. The seeds are small and oval (0.4 by 0.8 by 1.5 mm) and have a light bitter taste. The seeds become sticky by damp again, this comes because the polysaccharide in the outside layer of the seeds swell. On this manner, the seeds can be spread by men and animals.

Self Plantain cultivate.

It is not with difficulty self Plantain to cultivate, it is prevent to come with difficulty round there before from. When you Plantain you can use want look up they best in the game.
You can to harvest do ripen best from May till when the seeds.

Plantago major was found about 4000 year ago in Europe for the first time. This was wanted to cultivate then the man for the first time the ground.
Plantain was spread from Europe through the whole world. The Indians called the plant "The footstep of the white", because it everywhere was found where the Europeans been were. The kind name "Plantago" has been borrowed at this. Plantago comes "planted" from the Latin word, what soles meant.
Plantain stands plant already centuries known as a medicinal. In Scandinavia is the plant the best known its wound healing qualities. The Norwegian and Swedish names for Plantain is Groblad what healing leaves means.
Plantain became also many used in the time of Shakespeare and also is named in the piece "Romeo and Juliet" Act I, Scene II of the period 1592 until 1609.
Romeo: Your Plantain is for that excellent for.
Benvileo: For what, tea?
Romeo: For your wound.
Studies demonstrated that different parts of plant in much different countries over the world became used for the curing of different illnesses as skin problems, infections, digestions disturbances, respirations problems, circulation problems, against pain and against fever.

Medicinal.

Qualities.
Calming, Curing, Contracting, anti-bacterial, against inflammations.

External.
- Fresh, bruised Plantain leaves become put on fresh wounds.
- As a compress or lotion by insect bites, allergic rash, eczema, lit wounds and by splinters.
- Decreased nerve pain and rash through belt rose.
- As a crème or ointment by bleeding haemorrhoids.
- As a mouth water by painful and bleeding gums, inflammations in the mouth and herpes bladders.

Internal.
- By asthma, bronchitis and cough.
- Course nose through allergies, irritation and cold.
- By a spastic colon and bladder problems.
- Tea works cooling by continuous fever.

An example of available drops of Plantain, is the plantago tincture of Dr. Vogel.

Recipe for Plantain lotion.
Cut sufficient fresh Plantain leaves fine a small pot to fill.
Join so many glycerine closed that the leaves its covers. Let the mixture two weeks stand and rudder finished and to. Sift the solution and keep it in a dark bottle. This lotion works calming and curing by damp, itching skin rash and insect bites.

In the plant present matters.

Much different sugars, proteins and fats. Remaining (secondary) plant matters are:

Alkaloids.
Indicaine and plantagonine.

Flavonoids.
Apigenine 7-glucoside, Baicaleine, Hispiduline, Hispiduline 7-glucuronide, Homoplantaginine, Luteoline 7-glucoside, Luteoline 7-diglucoside, Luteoline 6-hydroxy-4'methoxy-7-galactoside, Nepetine 7-glucoside, Plantaginine, Scutellareine.

Iridoid glycosides.
Asperuloside, Aucubine, Catapol, Gardoside, Geniposidic acid, Majoroside, 10-Acetoxymajoroside, 10-hydroxymajoroside, Melittoside.

Terpenoids.
Loliolide (terpenoid), oleanolic acid, ursolic acid, 18-beta-glycyrrhetinic 18-beta-glycyrrhetinic concretes 18-beta-glycyrrhetinic 18-beta-glycyrrhetinic acid and sitosterol (triterpenoids).

Vitamins (quantity per 100 g).
Beta-carotene (6 mg), Vitamin C (19 mg), Vitamin K1.

Organic acids.
Fumaric acid, Syringic acid, vanillic acid, ferulic acid, p-coumaric acid, gentisic acid. And travel by train from salicylic acid, benzoic acid and cinnamic acid.

There its no warnings for Plantain known.

Two until three teaspoons fresh pressed juice of the Plantain most level good in the soup or a sauce.
Single leaves Plantain in the salad is a rich source at vitamin C. In the early spring, it became used especially for extra vitamin C for want of fresh vegetables.

Plantago lanceolata

The name for this variant is Narrow Plantain. These form elongated, narrow leaves has. They come especially for next to road sides.

Plantago media

This variant is called in the Rough Plantain.
The Rough Plantain has leaf the same form as the large Plantain.

Here a number stand impress of plates / photographs / of the Large Plantain (Plantago Major).

Literature

[1]. Dr. C. Norman Shealy; - Encyclopedia of the Natural Medicines - First busily;
Groningen: TextCase (1999). ISBN 3-8290-1713-8
[2]. Rüdt, YOU.; - Therapeutic and poisonous plants - First busily; Zutphen:
B. V. W. J. Thieme & Cie (1973). ISBN 90-03 94630 , 2
[3]. Anne Roared Samuelsen - The traditional uses, chemical constituents and biological activities or
Plantago major L. A review - Journal or Ethnopharmacology 71 (2000) 1-21



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