Plantain psyllium

The Plantain psyllium ( Plantago will afra L.), or grass with the chips, plantain psyllion, or pucier is a herbaceous Plante long-lived of the family of the Plantaginaceae .

Description

Characteristics

Composition

Mucilage, aucuboside, trace elements, salts of Potassium.

Use

Like the intermediate Plantain, the young sheets are eaten out of salad. Because of the important contents in Mucilage, one uses it in Cosmétique to make lenitive masks.

Pharmacopeia

  • Property: Laxative, emollient
  • Left used:
granulates To use traditionally to look after cutaneous irritations and rednesses with the eyelids, of recent research would show that it has an effect on the fall of the rate of Cholestérol and of the control of the diabetes.

Synonym

  • Plantago psyllium not auct. L. (1753), sensu L. (1762) (I.e. Linné described 2 species under the name of Plantago psyllium , in 1753 then in 1762. This name is thus not valid for the second species, described in 1762, whose valid name is Plantago will afra L.)

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