This little weed is so persistent and can show up and survive almost everything. You can find it in your garden, on your lawn and even at the driveway between the cracks. If you haven’t heard its name, it’s called plantain and is the most medicinally powerful weed you’ve ever seen. The bad thing is that you’re probably not taking advantage of all its properties.
Plantain’s leaves and buds have enormous potential which can help you with painful periods, clear up skin from acne and blackheads and even treat painful arthritis. It has been used for thousands of years as one of the most effective natural remedies known to man and there’s a good reason for this.
Let’s see just a few of the many health benefits plantain has:
- Wound healer
The first thing you need to know about plantain is that it’s an astringent which can be used for wounds and bug bites. Just crush some plantain leaves and apply them on the affected areas, Wrap the wound with some bandage and it’ll draw out the poisons from your skin, prevent infections and scars.
- Aids Digestion
Plantain is the simplest cure for all your digestive troubles, be it antibiotics heartburn, food allergies, or just poor digestion. The plantain leaves can also reduce inflammation and repair gut lining damage.
- Helps with congestion and respiratory problems
Plantain is an excellent expectorant because it’s rich in silica. It can clear up congestion and mucus, alleviate cough, and treat colds and a number of other respiratory conditions.
- Hemorrhoid cure
We mentioned its astringent properties so it’s so surprise it can be used as a cure for hemorrhoids. It can be processed into a lotion or ointment and applied directly to hemorrhoids, stopping the blood flow and alleviating the pain.
- Plantain treats all blood diseases and nearly all other diseases
Plantain is so health beneficial that it can be used for nearly all diseases. The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, written by Dr. Finley Ellingwood, MD, reveals that plantain is a natural remedy for almost every blood disease known to us, but also for glandular diseases, mercury poisoning, diarrheal conditions, female disorders, and injuries, bites and rashes on the skin.
You can add it to salads, chew it, grind it and apply it topically, make a plantain tea, potion or ointment and however you like it. Just make sure to add it to your list of natural remedies, you won’t regret it.
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