Medicinal plant Plantago lanc Plantaginis lanceolata dried leaves
Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain Botanic Name Plantago lanceolata Common Name Ribwort Plantain Snake Plantain Black Plantain Long Plantain Ribble Grass Black Jack Jackstraw Lamb s Tongue Hen Plant Wendles Kemps Cocks Quinquenervia Costa Canina Grieve Family Plantaginaceae Habitat Very common on pastures roadsides banks wasteplaces preferring dry sandy soil throughout Briatain and all the temperate world Mills Description A perennial plant that has erect hairy lanceolate leaves which grow from the rootstock on margined petioles in a basal rosette Several grooved flower stalks may grow from 6 to 30 inches high tipped by a short spike of tune white flowers whose brownish sepals and bracts give the spike its predominantly dark colour Lust Similar Plants Plantago major Parts Used Leaves Seed Husks History Some old books call the species Costa canina in allusion to the prominent veinings in the leaves that earned it the name Ribwort and it is this feature that caused it to earn the mediaeval name of Quinquenervia Grieve Another old popular name was Kemps The stalks of the plant are particularly tough and wiry and it is an old game with country children to strike the heads one against the other until the stalk breaks The Anglo Saxon word for a soldier was cempa and we can thus see the allusion to kemps Grieve The plant was at one time considered a fodder plant but cultivation was never seriously taken up Grieve Gelatinous substances extracted from the seeds has been used at one time in France for stiffening some kinds of muslin and other woven fabrics Grieve Highly respected in folk medicine from Africa and Vietnam Stuart Constituents Mucilage Mills Glycosides including acubin Mills Tannins Mills Silica zinc and high levels of potassium Mills Actions Soothing and healing locally Mills Relaxing expectorant Mills Tonic to repiratory mucous membranes Mills Calming urinary spasm and pains Mills Astringent Lust Demulcent Lust Haemostatic Lust Antibacterial McCarthy Antiinfl
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