What are the benefits of plantain? Can I eat Chetian grass if I have a fever?

<> plantain is a relatively common wild vegetable in rural areas. Of course, many people don't know its nutritional value or specific name. However, in the eyes of Chinese medicine, they believe that this wild vegetable has a very high medicinal value.

The medicinal value of plantain is too great, in addition to cough and expectorant, there are 3 major benefits waiting for you!

Coughing is a very common condition in life. Basically everyone coughs, and some people cough a lot. Drinking psyllium can help relieve cough and asthma, and if you drink water regularly throughout your life to soak plantain, it can also flush out toxins from your lungs and make breathing easier.

In addition to relieving cough and asthma, psyllium has the following three effects:

1.Anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. Plantains have anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. Like people with canker sores, drinking psyllium water regularly can help us suppress bacteria and alleviate the problem of canker sores. Psyllium mashed and applied to bites is effective in relieving itching or redness.

2.Relief of gout: For patients suffering from gout, you can use plantain soaked in water every day and drink it with plantain to soak in water, which can promote blood circulation in the body, excrete uric acid in the body in time, and stabilize uric acid in the body has a good curative effect, which can greatly relieve gout symptoms.

3.Regulates the stomach and intestines: People with a bad stomach can choose to drink water with plantain, which can not only relieve the symptoms of stomach pain and diarrhea, but also regulate appetite, improve gastrointestinal peristalsis, and also help the balance of bacteria in the intestines make the intestines healthier, and the body's resistance and immunity will also be enhanced.

Plantain, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Dried or fresh whole grass for plantain plantain or flat plantain. Psyllium genus, perennial herbaceous leaves are clustered on the ground, ovate or oval, with 3 to 7 thick veins on the whole margin, peduncle drawn from the leaf cluster, flowers very small and white, into slender flower spikes, the fruit is ring-dehisced when ripe, the seeds are small black-brown, and blooms from April to July.

Physiological characteristics: Grows in mountains, roadsides, flower beds, riversides and other places. The rhizome is short and thick, with dense whisker-like roots.

The leaves are all rooted, the leaves are smooth, broadly ovate, the margins are wavy, there are inconspicuous blunt teeth between them, the main veins are five, convex towards the back of the leaves, and the leaves extend into the petiole in a ribly shape, and the leaves are often the same length as the petioles. In spring, summer and autumn, the plant body ** extracts spike-like inflorescences, the flowers are small, and the corolla is not significant. It bears an oval capsule with a flower column at the top, which is cracked when ripe and scatters seeds.

It is beneficial to water drenching, clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing the liver and eyes, expelling phlegm, and stopping diarrhea. It is not only medicinal, but also edible.

Although plantain is just an ordinary weed, it also has some medicinal value, such as chronic bronchitis, acute and chronic dysentery, cold and fever can also be drunk with plantain decoction, which can effectively reduce symptoms.

Plantain has the effect of relieving gout, regulating the stomach and intestines, and reducing inflammation. If you have a fever, you can eat plantain. When symptoms of fever appear, the leaves of plantain can be mashed and taken, which has a good effect.

The main effects of plantain are diuretic and heat-clearing, eye-brightening, expectorant and so on. It can be used mainly for unfavorable urination, underband, edema, redness, swelling and pain, etc. Plantain can be used for colds and fevers.

Clearing heat and diuresis, drenching and expectorant. OK. Plantain has a sweet and cold taste, so it can clear heat and diuretic, and expel phlegm. Since psyllium is cold, eating it in moderation can clear away heat and reduce fever.

Plantain is a common weed in rural fields, which is distributed in most parts of the north and south of China. It can be seen in rural fields, roadsides, riversides, underforests, urban green belts, and lawns.

1. Plantains are edible.

Plantain is actually a medicinal plant, and its seeds, fresh grass or hay can be used in medicine.

Plantain is an annual herbaceous plant with no obvious aboveground stems, and the leaves are basal, rosette-shaped, that is, close to the ground, the main followers, and the leaves grow directly, around the base of the stem.

The leaves of plantain are edible and nutritious. When it comes to how to eat, there is actually nothing special, and it is similar to other leafy vegetables. Cold salad, stir-frying, soup can be made, or, to make stuffed food, dumplings or steamed buns, of course, with other ingredients, preferably meat filling.

It needs to be reminded here that when eaten as a wild vegetable, it should be eaten before flowering and setting seeds, and once the middle flower spike appears, the leaves will be old.

In fact, in ancient China, people began to eat plantain for a long time. In this regard, it is recorded in the Book of Songs:

Pick and pick the herb, and pick it in thin words; Picking and picking the herbs, there are thin words.

The word "芣苢" (fú yǐ) here refers to plantain.

2. Plantain is a high-quality ingredient for dietary therapy.

The medicinal value of plantain is quite high, therefore, as a high-quality herb for dietary therapy, the application is quite light. You can directly use plantain to soak in water and drink, and you can also use other ingredients, such as wolfberry, jujube, etc., to make medicinal food.

Plantain is common, there are 2 kinds of flat plantain and plantain, the use is almost the same, flat plantain is generally 3 main leaf veins, and plantain is generally 5 main leaf veins.

And in recent years, there is an invasive plant, the North American plantain, which is easily seen on some lawns. The North American plantain has a strong reproductive ability, and the big difference between the local plantain in China is mainly the leaves, and there are many white hairs on the leaves of the North American plantain.

Moreover, the taproot of psyllium leaves in North America is more obvious, and most of the plantain plants in China are fibrous roots.

If you want to eat it, try to eat the plantain in my country, after all, it has been tested by people's practice for many years. The North American plantain was first discovered in Nanchang in 1951.

Welcome to pay attention to "Wandering Grass and Trees", like to remember**. The heart of grass and trees, the taste of the countryside, savoring, and wandering.

Plantains in rural fields are edible because plantain is not poisonous. You can stir-fry plantain or make porridge from plantain.

You can eat it. It can be made into a cold salad to eat, and the production method is also quite simple, use some seasonings, then pour some sesame oil, blanch it with water and eat it.

You can eat it, but you must leave some of it when you eat it, don't eat it all, if you eat it all, it may not be long in the coming year. In addition, you can't eat it all at once, and you must understand the regional differentiation when you eat.

OK. You can pull this grass back and wash it, and then blanch it with water and then take some spices and mix it cold.

Can plantain be eaten

Plantain is a relatively common Chinese herbal medicine in our life, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. The earliest ancients used plantain as an anti-inflammatory drug, and the effect was still good. Many people don't know whether plantain can be eaten, so let's introduce it to you in detail.

Can plantain be eaten

In fact, although plantain is a Chinese herb, it is also a whole herb in plants, which is relatively common in our lives. Plantain mainly grows on roadsides, fields and some low-lying areas, and if it has not been growing for a long time, it can be picked back and used to cook delicious dishes.

The climate is hot in the season, and the plantain is used to make dumplings, cold salad or soup decoction, which is very effective after use. For people who are hot and easy to get angry, after taking plantain, you can please dissipate heat and remove toxins from the body, but the medicinal properties of the main plantain are a little cool, and it is not recommended for people with cold body and stomach cold. Avoid intake of plantain that may cause discomfort.

Can plantain be eaten? The answer is yes, because plantain has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, so we can use plantain to wrap dumplings and cold salad to eat better. Secondly, plantain can also be used as a vegetarian dish for cooking, and it can be taken for health people and middle-aged and elderly people who have a strong fire in the body.

How do you eat plantain?

Plantain can be eaten with other ingredients to make porridge.

Plantain is used to make porridge with other ingredients such as green onions, light black bean sauce, and japonica rice, which can be used for summer dampness and diarrhea, and urine is short.

1.Composition: 30g of fresh plantain, 15g of green onion, 12g of light black bean, 50g of japonica rice, minced ginger, salt, aged vinegar, monosodium glutamate, and sesame oil.

2.Preparation and usage:

1) Fresh plantain and green onion white chopped and light tempeh into the pot, add 500ml of water, decoction for 30 minutes, pour out the medicinal liquid, filter with two layers of gauze, and discard the residue.

2) Wash the japonica rice and put it in a pot, add the liquid medicine and an appropriate amount of water, and then change to a simmer and boil slowly.

3) After the porridge is made, add minced ginger, salt, aged vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, and it is ready to eat.

3.Efficacy: Clearing away heat and turbidity, diuretic and drenching.

4.Application: Bladder damp heat syndrome. It is used for hot showers caused by damp heat accumulation and bladder gasification, and the symptoms are burning urine, drenching and astringent pain, and urine is yellow and turbid. It can also be used for summer dampness and diarrhea, short urination, etc.

5.Solution: The syndrome treated by this prescription is the bladder damp heat syndrome caused by dampness and heat, and the treatment should be to clear dampness and heat and discharge drenching turbidity.

This porridge is better to choose fresh plantain. Plantain is cold, sweet, returns to the kidney, liver, and lung meridians, and can "clear the stomach and heat, brighten the eyes, facilitate urination, divide the five showers, red and white stools, stop water diarrhea, eliminate edema, and retreat from red eyes". Light tempeh, bitter, pungent, flat in nature, return to the lungs, stomach meridians, good muscle release, Xuan Yu and annoyance.

The green onion is white and pungent and warm, enters the lungs and stomach meridians, can publish the yang, and can enhance the function of promoting the lungs with light tempeh. The combination of the three is especially good for promoting lung diuresis, and it is also nourished and neutralized with japonica rice, which is beneficial and does not hurt the positive.

6.Precautions for use: Plantain is a product that is smooth and smooth, and people with sperm and enuresis should not eat. This porridge should be eaten on an empty stomach.

This content was reviewed by Zhang Jun, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Hospital.

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