English name:
Common plantain
Local name:
Trputac
Description:
Perennial plant with ground, thin, fibrous and bare leaves with accentuated 3 to 5 veins. The flower pedicle is leafless, upright and square and it ends with a brownish flower bundle. The fruit is a two-seed sac.
Uses:
Usable part:
Plant while flowering
Usage:
Common plantain is a great natural medicine against cough, hooping cough, pulmonary asthma, inflammation of pulmonary apex, and even pulmonary tuberculosis. Colitis, digestive disorders, stomach diseases, bowl parasites and haemorrhages can be treated with common plantain's poultice from a flowering plant.
