Intermediate plantain
The intermediate plantain ( Plantago media ) or language of Agneau is a herbaceous Plante long-lived of the family of the Plantaginacées.
Description
Characteristics
Small plant with swivelling root and multiple rootlets. Sheets basal in rivet washer, oval-elliptic, whole, with marked nervuration. The pole is small, slightly pubescent, fragile, bearing of the ear flowers with chalice.
Chemical components
Acucubine, Tannin, Pectin, acids, salts, gum, Saponin
Use
Like Plantago psyllium , the young sheets are eaten out of salad.
Pharmacopeia
- use: dépuratif, astringeant, vulnerary, ophthalmic
Since antiquity, she is regarded as hemostatic with fast action on the wounds. She was also used against the tooth ache and distilled eye lotion in the form of water.
The crushed sheets fraiches are used like healing and in massage on the punctures of mosquitos.
One collected (all the year) the roots of the plantain which, crushed were used for to prepare anti-infectious cataplasms.
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