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Flea plantain is one of the plants of a family called plantains, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Plantago squalida Salisb. (P. psyllium sensu L.). As for the very name of the flea plantain family, in Latin it will be like this: Plantaginaceae Juss.
Description of flea plantain
Flea plantain is also known as flea and flea grass. This plant is a herbaceous, small annual and short-haired crop that will be endowed with a fusiform root. The height of such a root, in turn, will fluctuate between ten and forty centimeters. The stems of this plant are glandular and branched. The leaves of the flea plantain will be linear and opposite, they can be either sessile horizontally or deviated back. Small-sized flowers of this plant will be in dense spherical or ovoid ears, such flowers will sit on rather long legs located in the very axils of the leaves. At the top of the flea plantain stems, such flowers will converge into a corymbose inflorescence. The corolla of this plant can be painted in both pale pink and pink tones. The fruit of the flea plantain is a capsule endowed with two small seeds, painted in reddish-brown tones. The seeds of this plant will be shiny, smooth, oval in shape, while on the one hand such seeds will be concave, and on the other they are convex.
Flea plantain blooms in July, while seeds ripen in August.
Description of the medicinal properties of the flea plantain
Flea plantain is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use freshly harvested grass and seeds of this plant. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of aucubin in the roots of this plant, while mannitol, aucubin, beta-sitosterol and linoleic acid will be present in the leaves. Flea plantain flowers will contain linoleic acid and beta-sitosterol, the seeds contain carbohydrates and related compounds, alkaloids, beta-sitosterol, aucubin and the following nitrogen-containing compounds: linoleic acid, fatty oil, plantagonin, indicaine and indicamine.
As for obstetrics and practical gynecology, an infusion is quite widespread here, which is prepared on the basis of the seeds of this plant. such a healing agent is recommended for various inflammatory diseases of the female genital organs, and is also used for a poultice of crushed seeds for cracked nipples in nursing mothers. A decoction and infusion, as well as moistened flea plantain seed powder, is used as an anti-inflammatory, laxative and enveloping agent. The broth prepared on the basis of the seeds of this plant is also used in the cosmetic industry as a starch substitute.
Together with the juice of the leaves of the large plantain, the juice of the flea plantain is used for stomach and duodenal ulcers, and is also used to treat hypoacid gastritis. Outwardly, such a healing agent is used for various cuts and wounds.
It should be noted that it has been experimentally proven that flea plantain juice will have a positive effect in the fight against chronic colitis, and is also used to treat dysentery. In addition, the juice of this plant will also accelerate blood coagulation processes.
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