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06/02/2014
This is amazing Herbal-Ally known as plantain (Plantago), no not the banana-like fruit....but the low to the ground smooth, broad-leafed herb. Most people consider it a weed, but this plant, in its early stages, as well as when it goes to seed is edible as a pot-herb or trail nibble, but most of all it is a MUST-KNOW plant for its healing properties. Plantain is highly astringent, meaning it draws out things, like poisons from bee/wasp stings, fly and mosquito bites, infection from cuts and bruises, irritations from poison ivy & poison oak...and is even purported to be able to draw out splinters!
It is a pain reliever for irritations and skin abrasions and lacerations, it also contains a constituent called allantoin that helps in skin cell regeneration and is synthesized for use in commercial homeopathic wrinkle creams.
So this very common and easy to identify plant is one that everyone should get to know.
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