GREATER LLANTEN (plantago major)

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	GREATER LLANTEN
	*plantago major*

Name
GREATER LLANTEN

Scientific Name
plantago major

GREATER LLANTEN

English: Plantain.

French: Plantain.

Of the family of the Planatagináceas.

Expectorante and purifier of the blood, astringent, healing and antihemorrágico.

INTRODUCTION: Old plant of and ample use to a large extent of the country. It is used for digestive problems by his desinflamante and analgesic action, for which the infusion of the leaves drinks as use water; also, it turns out useful to desinflamar the paperas, hematomas, hurt and eyes. The treatment to follow in injuries and inflammations, consists of placing the cofoundation of the leaves like promotions, cataplasms or washings; the leaves crushed placed directly and mixed with alcohol or oil serve to rub the affected part. In cases of reumatismo, minor wounds, abscesses and pain bones are recommended to use the macerated one of the leaves. Other data found about the Llantén say to us that it alleviates the stomach ache, with the taken cofoundation or applying the fresh leaves directly.

Plant that measures of 10 to 30 cm of height. The great and extended leaves are born from the ground from a root with sweet potato form. Their flowers are tiny and are in a long stem. It has his origin in Europe and Asia. In Mexico it inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It grows in culture lands and she is associate with the tropical forest caducifolia and perennifolia, scrub xerófilo and forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

The name of Plantago talks about the plant of the foot, to the track that leaves in the ground a shoe, but could also remember that it grows up that way through where passes the man. For that reason, we make reference to the name that the North American Indians gave him when the plant was introduced by the European and grew through where it passed the man white: "the track of the pale faces".

Llantén, a herbaceous plant that abounds in the humid orchards, earth, the prairies, the edges of the fields and the ribazos. The whole plant is useful, although the aerial parts are preferred.

The garglings or rinsings of llantén are a remedy surely against the throat inflammations and of the 200 species of Plantago that are known, some are popular medicines, like major P.; others do not happen of bad grass that invades the culture fields and sterilizes the Earth.

CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz of about 60 cm of height is a plant. As of the second year it forms a yellowish stem under white earth of which multitude of raicillas hangs. The leaves, great as the plant of the foot, is born level with ground and are developed vertically. Of sure green color they are united to the stem by a length pecíolo. In the inferior face they emphasize seven very robust parallel nerviaciones. From the same point of where they start the leaves arise floral pedúnculos whose small superior half is covered of florecillas without pecíolo, abundant, forming like a reddish brush. The fruit is a small capsule that, when mature, is opened cross-sectionally dropping the seeds that contain. It is also called llantén common, llantén greater, carmel and plantaina to him.

LOCATION: In any place of the world plants of the Plantago sort can be found in wild state, although it prefers climates temperings and colds not too many warm ones. Many species are located in South America coverall in Mato Grosso. Llantén greater, abounds in the eurasiático continent and grows next to the ways, in humid earth.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: As much the leaves as the flowers and stem have glucósido, the aucubina, along with mineral tannins and salts, and, also rich in sulfur. The seeds contain abundant mucílago and great amount of oils.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Basically astringent, that is to say, that contracts organic weaves, constitutes good antiinflammatory, a antidiarreico one. It is useful, concretely, in the treatment of the hemorroides. Also he is purifying and diurético, and it can be applied as vulnerario (even to cure sores, wounded or erosions of the skin).

HARVESTING: The leaves and also the root (the underground stem) can throughout collect year except both colder months. The floral ears, during the spring; seeds, something later, before open the capsules and they drop them.

USES And APPLICATIONS: Against the inflammations of the throat, sores in the mouth, become rinsings or garglings of a decocción of leaves (50 g by liter of water). This same decocción

Conjuntivitis cases of or simple ocular inflammation can be applied on the eyes in. In order to cure the wounds, it is applied tender leaves directly, once escaldadas. Against the hemorroides, they are possible to be given seat baths or to be applied the resulting pomada one to fuse butter of cattle with crushed fresh leaves. In the Far East from the seeds a species of confitura is prepared uses to against the abdominal pains.

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