Plantain branched seeds «Berezotitskyi»

Plantain branched or plantain Indian «Berezotitskyi» / Plantago arenaria

Annual herbaceous plant 15-30 cm high; rough due to short hairs. The stem is leafy, branched, erect or prostrate, in the axils of the lower leaves there are shortened branches in the form of a bunch of leaves. The leaves are opposite, narrowly linear, usually entire, without petioles. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, bisexual, collected in dense spike-shaped inflorescences (from spherical to oblong), located in umbrellas at the tops of stems and branches. The corolla is dry, membranous, whitish, with a four-part limb.

The fruit is a two-celled capsule that opens with a lid. Seeds are dark brown, shiny, oval, furrowed on the inner side. Plantain blooms in June-July. It grows on sands (roadsides of country and forest roads, sandy river banks, forest clearings in forests, wastelands, pastures, etc.).

Plantain seeds are harvested by cutting off the tops of plants during the fruiting period. After drying, they are threshed, sieved through a sieve. The color of the seeds is dark brown, the taste is slimy, there is no smell. The seeds contain mucus, fatty oil, protein substances, they are used as a mild laxative for constipation, as well as an enveloping agent for chronic colitis.

Healing action and application:

With the help of medicines prepared from plantain, many human diseases are treated. They are used for diseases of the abdominal organs: Botkin's disease, inflammation of the small and large intestines, inflammation of the gallbladder and various kidney diseases. Plantain preparations are also used to treat skin diseases.

For diseases of the internal organs, such as the large and small intestines, it is very good to take a decoction of the seeds of the plant as a mild laxative. It should be taken as follows: on an empty stomach, one tablespoon per day. With wounds on the walls of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, which are accompanied by bleeding, it is also very good to take this decoction.

With an inflamed mucous membrane of the mouth, eyes, you can also use a decoction of plantain leaves, washing the inflamed organs.

Juice from fresh leaves of the plant can increase the secretory activity of the stomach, but it should not be taken if a person has gastric juice with high acidity. For oncological diseases, in particular tumors that are malignant, fresh juice from plantain leaves is most effective in treatment, according to traditional medicine.

To get juice at home, you need to cut the leaves with part of the cutting, rinse them very well with cold running water. Then the leaves are allowed to dry, doused with boiling water, ground in a meat grinder and squeezed out the juice through a cloth folded several times.

In summer, when it is hot, the juice will be dense and viscous and it needs to be diluted with water 1:1. The prepared mass is boiled for one to three minutes. Take one tablespoon on an empty stomach fifteen to twenty minutes before meals - four times a day.

It is advised to mix fresh plantain juice in half with honey and boil for twenty minutes over low heat. Take one dessert spoon of the composition and slowly swallow it with saliva while holding it in your mouth.

In order for the juice to be used for a long time, it is recommended to dilute it with alcohol or vodka. Alcohol: two parts juice - one part alcohol. Vodka in the same proportion: one to one. You should drink with oncology of the stomach, lungs and intestines, one tablespoon each.