Banana is full of treasures. What does its seed do?

Plantago plantain seedlings can be eaten as wild vegetables. Before and after May Day every year, fresh banana seedlings are picked back, blanched with boiling water, and then fished out and mixed with salt and sesame oil, which is very refreshing. You can also dip in the sauce, stir-fry and steam. Of course, it is also delicious to make jiaozi with it as stuffing. There are many wild vegetables in the countryside, such as shepherd's purse, purslane, mugwort leaf and grey vegetables. When I was a child, I often ate, but plantain seedlings ate less.

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Cooking porridge and boiled water with plantain leaves is considered by Chinese medicine to have expectorant, antitussive, antiasthmatic and diuretic effects.

The seeds of plantain are mostly used as Chinese herbal medicine. According to TCM works, Semen Plantaginis has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, detoxicating and cooling blood, and can be used to treat urinary system infection, gouty arthritis and acute enteritis.

Plantain has two main values, one is edible as wild vegetables, and the other is as wild medicinal materials. In eating banana, some people pick its tender leaves, blanch them with boiling water, and then directly mix, stir-fry or make stuffing. It is not only delicious, but also contains a variety of nutrients, which can supplement the human body in time. If it is soup, I recommend two kinds. One is plantain leaf licorice soup, which can be used instead of tea. The second is banana leaf porridge, which can effectively prevent various diseases when eaten on an empty stomach.

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Plantain is a treasure all over the body, which is edible and has medicinal value. Sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, with the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing away liver-fire, improving eyesight, removing dampness and removing arthralgia. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that long-term service makes people strong and anti-aging. Because of the excellent therapeutic effect of plantain, people often use 50g fresh plantain mixed with other cold dishes to treat stomatitis. Or juice with fresh plantain 30g, fresh celery 100g, radish 100g, and stew with honey once a day to treat hypertension.

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The ovule of Plantago asiatica, also known as Plantago asiatica, is helpful for water drenching. Semen Plantaginis 10g boiled with white rice and added with sugar can cure kidney inflammation and edema, cystitis and urethritis. Or use 30 grams of Semen Plantaginis and 60 grams of Rhizoma Dioscoreae, grind them into powder, and take them orally to treat vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal distension caused by spleen deficiency.