The leaves (Folium Plantaginis) are used. The active principles are: mucilage, vitamin K, tannin, aucubin glycoside, polyphenols, allantoin. It acts as an emollient and expectorant, antihemorrhagic, cicatrizing, hypocholesterolemic, antiseptic, hypotensive.

It is also used for gastric ulcer, catarrh (urinary or digestive), hypertension, wounds, varicose ulcers, laryngitis, stomatitis, tracheitis, hemorrhoids, conjunctivitis and blepharitis, etc. The plant is used as a medicinal plant. The active substance is aucubin glycoside, but it also contains polyphenols, polysaccharides, mucilages, vitamin C, tannin, silicon, potassium, zinc. It is closely related to Plantain broad (Plantago major), Plantain medium (Plantago media). Their leaves are used in the pharmaceutical industry and folk medicine.

Plantain is a powerful anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and cicatrizing, so the crushed leaves can be a remedy for insect bites, minor burns. Due to its anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory properties, it is used to treat inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, to relieve coughs, and as an expectorant. Dissolves adherent mucus, promotes sputum formation (tracheobronchial secretion). Covers the mucous membrane and relieves inflammation, eliminates the cough reflex.

Given the lack of side effects, it is also successfully used in pediatrics. It is sometimes used as a laxative due to the fact that the core swells easily.

For external use, in folk medicine, it is used for superficial injuries, purulent wounds, cuts, ulcers that are difficult to heal and to relieve bleeding. Fresh plantain leaves are placed on wounds that heal slowly: it is antiseptic, astringent, closes the wound, facilitates blood coagulation.

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