Plant Information

Common Name: PLANTAIN, ASIAN
Scientific Name: Plantago asiatica

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R93.00

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Description

• Perennial
• Asian Plantain is native to China.
• It is an evergreen perennial with a basal rosette of long-stalked, ovate, deeply veined leaves, to 15cm. long.
• Minute green flowers are borne in spikes, to 50cm long, in summer, followed by capsules containing 4-9 dark brown seeds.
• It is fully hardy and grow in sun.

Parts Used

• The whole plant and seeds.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Asian Plantain is used internally for acute infections of the lungs and urinary tract, hepatitis and boils (wholer plant);
• diarrhoea, urinaty complaints, coughs with profuse phlegm, conjunctivitis, and vertigo (seeds).

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