6 – Plantain’s Medicinal Properties

All about Plantain’s medicinal properties!

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Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism podcast with your host

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Nicole Rose from the Solidarity Apothecary . This is your place for

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all things plants and liberation.

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Let's get started everyone.

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Thank you for coming back to the podcast.

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I had a fantasy of maybe recording something while I was in Calais

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but as ever failed because it is just so hectic there.

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Spent a week there with our Mobile Herbal Clinic, which is the new name

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for Herbalists without Borders Calais.

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Gonna be doing a bit of a launch, kind of rebrand thing that we'll talk about soon.

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So I'll wait till then.

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But we had, yeah, quite a long week.

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We saw 560 odd people.

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In Calais and Dunkirk

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. There was like a big eviction in

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cops kind of like overturned all the grass with the tractor, which was

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where we were doing our clinic and where other groups and projects and

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agencies and stuff like give things out.

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. Yeah.

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It's just all part of this kind of like hostile environment attitude to make it as

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difficult as possible to support people.

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Yeah, we saw lots of kind of, you know, like similar things that we

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see, like huge amounts of coughs and colds, digestive issues.

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Some very, very, very badly infected winds.

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Had to take someone to hospital cause he couldn't walk.

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Cause his leg was so infected and he kind of urgently needed antibiotics.

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So, yeah, a very busy week, but a really, a really great team and just been kind

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of grounding, getting back to things now.

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Yeah, so this show is gonna all be about plantain, which is one of the

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herbs in the prisoners' herbal book.

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This is the book with 10 profiles of different medicinal plants that you can

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find kind of commonly in prison courtyards that I worked with when I was inside.

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And yeah, it's like, I know, I know I'm gonna say it and I know

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it's in the beginning of the next slot, but it is literally, again,

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another, like all time favorite herb.

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I really see plantain as this kind of like wound healer and I really

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see it as an ally for people doing like heavy, heavy work in the world.

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And yeah, it's kind of, yeah, used to getting like,

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you know, stood on, but yeah.

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Thrives and it, you know, it keeps going and it still provides

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medicine despite its conditions.

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So, the other exciting thing that happened at the beginning of the month was the

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launch of the prisoners herbal in Spanish in, And I'm gonna like butcher

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this next section when I talk about the book, cuz my translation is terrible.

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I did do GCSE Spanish when I was a kid, but.

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Yeah, it's kind of long gone from my brain.

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But they had the launch event for the, for the book.

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The book that's been the prisoner herbal that's been translated into Spanish

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for people in the Spanish day and also for people in Mexico and beyond

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called La Herbolaria de Ixs Presxs.

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And yeah, the, the launch event was at a site Which is kind of like

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an ongoing occupation called the Plantón de Mujeres Mazatecas . Okay.

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Sorry.

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I'm gonna get Heather and other people who speak Spanish on

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the show cuz this is terrible.

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But it's basically like a site of an ongoing occupation of women, family

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members of political prisoners in Oaxaca.

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And yeah, the copies of the books were given to people.

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Like their family members inside.

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Yeah, the photos are amazing.

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I put some on my Instagram, like I totally just balled my eyes out.

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Like they made this like incredibly beautiful big banner.

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And yeah, they actually wrote a text, which a friend translated

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for me, so I'm gonna read it out.

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We wholeheartedly thank you for the invitation yesterday to the presentation

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of the book La Herbolaria de Ixs Presxs organized by collectives in support

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of political prisoners and our beloved Mazatec compañeras who have allowed

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us to accompany them in the demand for freedom for our compañeros and compañeras.

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It was a very moving event, and we want to share some reflections with you.

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First, we want to recognize that a friend at the encampment in dedication to

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compañeros and compañeras, who passed to the next world without reaching freedom,

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sorry, they had a picture of Taylor there and they had like offerings, like flowers

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and bits of food and tobacco and stuff.

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And it was just, yeah, it was just so beautiful.

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Okay.

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Sorry.

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. I dunno where that came from.

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I just, Yeah.

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Perpetual grief hole.

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Okay.

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Around the world, states use prisons to take the lives of women and, and

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men who rebel against the system.

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Women who defend their lives, migrants, poor people and peasants.

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Prisons are the tumor of our societies, the one that grows and grows,

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revealing a sick society incapable of solving problems without punishment.

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And.

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We remember every woman and man murdered and killed by the prison system and police

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brutality in every corner of our world.

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We also invite you to check out the book La Herbolaria de lxs Presxxs and

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by it in support of our compañerxs it is a very beautiful book made by an ex

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political prisoner of the United Kingdom.

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Nicole Rose, who knew perfectly well the lack of health inside the prison.

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There is no dignity for anyone inside.

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There are no doctors, there is no health.

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This book is a symbol of hope for all those who resist inside prison wars.

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We leave with our hearts full with the pain of knowing that injustices

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are repeated in every country, and there are those who call themselves

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activists and feminists and are happy to see Karla and Magda in prison.

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Here we are and we will give the fiercest fight and with more love until

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we embrace them again, them and all the prisoners with whom we walk day by day.

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We leave you with this little poem written by Nicole Rose about her resilience

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by comparing it to the dandelion.

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Here we are resisting like dandelions, and so are Karla and Magda.

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We love you sisters.

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And this is the little poem.

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It's called Outlaw.

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It's in the prisoners.

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Her book.

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Just for a moment, I lose myself and all that I am is the plant in my hand.

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My heart engaged in a language older than words.

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I ask your permission, take in your bitter healing.

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I am no longer VM 93 85.

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Tasting the wild.

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I am alive just for a moment.

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No prisoner, no criminal, but a wise woman who talks with plants like

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ancestors who heard their whispers, thousands of generations before.

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Alive in the wilderness.

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A wild outlaw.

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All right.

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Gosh, literally dunno what's going to me today, but I think I

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just need to have a bit of a cry.

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I appreciate everyone.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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No one's left a review yet.

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And I'm way too shy to ask, but like, If you could, that would be amazing.

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I had one email from someone being like, I'm one of the six queers listening.

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And it just, it just made like all the difference to know

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that someone was listening.

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But anyway, so.

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If you wanna support the show that in that way, that would be amazing.

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And yeah, haven't talked about Ukraine and the horror of yesterday, but I'm

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gonna, yeah, gonna get Lana Ukrainian herbalist blist on the show very soon,

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and we're gonna talk about the project and everything that's happening.

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But for now, just again, yeah, like a general request for donations.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Enjoy this section about plantain.

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I hope plantain becomes one of your favorites too.

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And yeah, lots of love speaks soon.

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Okay, Plantain.

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I know I said that I would do this, but.

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And I would say that every, every plant was my favorite in the last episode,

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but honestly, plantain is my favorite.

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Okay.

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Maybe second to dandelion, but like definitely top three.

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Okay.

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Latin or snake weed.

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LA name plantago major and plantago lanceolata.

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And I should have gone to private school to learn how to pronounce

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Latin because I would be much more impressive on this podcast anyway.

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Okay.

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Plant family.

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Plantaginaceae, the plantain family.

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Identification.

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Ribwort plantain, which is the lanceolata one, low rosettes of

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narrow dull or greyish-green, hairy leaves with numerous parallel veins

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running through the length of the leaf leaves, taper very gradually to their

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narrow bases and very short stalks.

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They have short, dense blackish flower heads with creaming stamens.

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I mean, how hot does that sound?

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Oh my God.

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I need to stop adlibbing.

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This is terrible.

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Okay.

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On Leafless stems in comparison, greater Plantain has broader leaves, which are

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hairless or with short hair and taper more abruptly into distinct leaf stalks, which

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can be as long as the leaves themselves.

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The flower head is long, narrow, and green.

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Or brown when dead.

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Other species.

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Narrow leaf plantain (P.

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minor), Sea plantain (P.

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maritima), Indian plantain (P.

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afra), Psyllium (P.

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ovata).

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All 34 species of plantain are edible and medicinal folk names in English.

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Plantain (P.

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lanceolata), Greater plantain (P.

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major), Waybread, Snakeweed, Soldiers, Kemps, Fireleaves, White Man’s Foot,

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White Man’s Footsteps, Waybroad, Ripple Grass, English man’s foot,

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Broadleaf, Cuckoo’s Bread, Rat-tail.

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Planta in Latin means foot.

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Chemical constituents.

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Okay, here we go.

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I hate this bit.

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I'm just, I'm just gonna do my best.

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Okay.

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And if anything, I hope it makes you laugh.

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Okay.

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Iridoid glycosides (aucubin, catalpol); tannins; polysaccharides,, (galactose,

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glucose, xylose, arabnose, and rhamnose IE mucilage); alkaloids

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(plantagonine, asperuloside); flavonoids (baicalein, apigenin, scutellarin.

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nepetin, hispidulin, luteolin, plantagoside).

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Yeah, I should like ask for donations to send me on the Plant chemistry

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course so that I can actually hear some videos of someone pronouncing

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these names, not just in the textbook.

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Okay.

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Food and Nutrition all plants are all plants.

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All parts of plantain are edible.

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Mark Petterson writes in the nutritional herbal that Plantain

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major seed is very high in calcium, crude fiber, dietary fiber and fat.

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It is also high in protein, silicon, sodium, and zinc.

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Katrina Blair describes how Plantain seeds are a sustainable food rich in proteins,

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carbohydrates, fatty acids, amino acids, omega-3 fatty acids, and other minerals.

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The seed coat is made up of 30 percent mucalige.

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The mucilage absorbs toxins in the digestive tract and greatly

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supports effective elimination.

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The seeds act gently in lubricating the colon with its mucilaginous nature making

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the perfect food and medicine in one.

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The plantain seeds are a relative of psyllium seeds and have the same

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gelatinous quality, making a valuable base for thickening soups in recipes for

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binding crackers and firming up desserts.

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Plantago lanceolata is also grown as a perennial salad crop in

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Italy and other parts of Europe.

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Ecological role.

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Plantain grows on dryish neutral to basic soils in short, grazed,

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unimproved grasslands and also in improved grasslands along hedgerows

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and roadside and on waste ground.

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Plantain is an excellent cover crop for soils harmed by extractive European

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agriculture or repeated trampling.

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She also makes good forage for animals, domestic or wild.

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You'll see plantain wherever there is bare soil.

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She is somehow the lands living plaster.

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Plantain is called White Man's Footsteps because of how it followed

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European settlers on native land.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the beautiful book, Braiding

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Sweet Grass, describes plantain.

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"Our people have a name for this round leaf plant, white man's footsteps,

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just a low circle of leaves.

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Press close to the ground with no stem to speak of it.

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Arrived with the first settlers and followed them everywhere they went.

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It trotted a long path through the woods and along wagon roads and railroads

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like a faithful dog, so as to be near."

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I love how Hawthorne references plantain as a tool for decolonization.

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They write "Plantago reminds us that good allies take the backseat.

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They remain unobtrusive and supportive until called upon.

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They do not take up extra space or time that others need, unlike other introduced

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plants, buckthorne, knotweed etc.

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Plantain has not disrupted ecosystems or threatened endangered native species.

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She only takes up space where there are already empty spots,

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putting herself with the edge of eroded areas or busy sidewalks.

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She helps keep the soil healthy by holding it in place and healing compaction, but

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then moves on to allow others to thrive".

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Cultivation.

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Plantain commonly propagates itself by seed with one source saying that

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plantain seed can remain viable for up to 60 years, which is fucking amazing.

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While plantain is generally found on bare and disturbed soils where it does

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have access to more fertility, it will become impressively lush and large.

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You should see photos of Plantain in my polytunnel, like you've

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never seen anything like it.

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Everyone's like, Oh my God, it's so big.

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Which also sounds weird.

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Sorry, it's a weird day.

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Okay, Energetics.

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Temperature, cooling.

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Moisture, astringent and demulcent.

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And the tissue states heat excitation, dry atrophy, damp

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stagnation, and the taste is bitter.

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Herbal Actions.

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Alterative, antibacterial, antidote, astringent, antiseptic,

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demulcent, deobstruent, diuretic, expectorant, febrifuge, hemostatic,

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inflammation modulating, moistening expectorant, ophthalmic, vulnerary.

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Whew, that wasn't too bad.

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That list much better with herbal actions than I am constituents.

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Health Challenges supported by Plantain .Plantain has been used

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medicinally for thousands of years.

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It was one of the nine sacred herbs of the Anglo Saxons who called

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plantain Lacnuga, the mother of worts.

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Below is some medicinal uses of plantain.

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Topical first aid.

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Plantain is a supreme ally for wound healing and skin injuries from bites,

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cuts, scrapes, and stings to punctures.

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Plantain is your plant.

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This is because plantain works simultaneously as a fantastic drawing

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agent and is an astringent and vulnerary.

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Astringent means that the cells and tissues are contracting and tightening.

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Vulnerary is another word for wound healing.

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In Ireland, a single plant leaf served both actions.

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One side of the leaf was meant to be used for drawing out and the

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other side of the leaf for healing.

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Plantain has the ability to suck out dirt, splinter, stings and poisons.

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I remember being bit by a spider, bitten by a spider or some other, my mystery

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insect, while being at a hardcore show.

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After leaving my hoodie in a dusty cupboard, I searched outside, and even in

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the middle of the city of Bristol, I found Plantain growing through the concrete.

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I washed it and chewed it up in my mouth before placing it on my bite, and lo and

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behold, I drew out whatever had gotten in there and the swellings subsided.

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Plantain also has the ability to treat infected wounds due to its antibacterial

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and antiseptic antiseptic actions.

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Herbalist, Sajah Popham writes how Plantain applied topically has the ability

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to draw out that infection, bring fresh, fresh blood to the surface, stimulate

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local immunity, detoxify the area, and provide its own antiseptic properties.

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It's super powerful as a spit poultice..

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A loved one of mine from Siberia jokes that in russia, plantain is used

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for everything with a comedy sketch.

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If your arm gets chopped off, just use Plantain.

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You can also line your socks and shoes with the leaves and it help

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and it helps prevent blisters.

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This links to one of its names, way broad as it is found along roadside, and you

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can use it when you walk long distances.

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Leaky gut syndrome.

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Leaky gut syndrome with gut issues, almost endemic in our Western cultures.

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Due to chronic stress, overuse of antibiotics, food, allergens,

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and intolerances, non-organic food and pollution, plantain

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can be an important ally.

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This is due to its astringent, and vulnerary action, literally

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healing our internal wounds.

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Imagine the gut lining as our inner skin.

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Sajah writes once again, We see the combination of astringency and

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vulnerary actions helping to heal and tonify the lining of the gut.

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A reduction in inflammation directly on the gut wall, but also systemically,

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a soothing demulcent action, as well as the antiseptic quality,

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helping to alleviate any possible flora imbalances or infection.

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Plantain is literally like a formula unto itself when it comes

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to treating leaky gut syndrome.

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The slight bitterness of the remedy also supports digestion as a whole.

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If using plantain for gut healing, then similarly to mallow you need to really

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cover as much surface area as possible.

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So decoctions or infusions are best

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. Constipation.

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Plantain seeds can help treat constipation, adding a bit of

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moisture and a bulking laxative to help to help getting things moving.

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It is important to also increase fiber.

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For example, more fruits and vegetables and stay well hydrated.

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Doing small massage, self-massage circles, clockwise around the abdomen

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while you're lying down, can also help.

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Plantain can also be used for hemorrhoid.

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Respiratory Tracted infections.

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Plantain is a fantastic resource for a dry, irritable cough because

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it is soothing and moistening, but also has an expectorant action.

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An expectorant helps you to bring up phlegm and expel it.

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It's great if you have one of those lingering coughs

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that will not go away easily.

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Dental Care .Herbalists, Julie and Matthew Seal right how a word of fresh plantain

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can be placed against sore teeth and its drawing action is particularly powerful

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for tooth infections, cankers or ulcers.

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Tea can be held in the mouth or you can soak cotton well in a strong infusion

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or tincture and pack it into the area.

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Urinary tract infections.

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Sajah describes how plantain is a good herb for urine tract infections.

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The herb is a mild but effective diuretic agent providing its astringent and

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mucilagnous properties to the mucosal membranes, which line the urinary tract.

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This makes it highly beneficial for urinary tract infections where

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there is an excess of irritation, heat, dryness and bleeding.

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Plantain effectively causes and sedates the heat and inflammation soothes

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the irritation, moistens the dryness, astringes the bleeding, assists in

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drawing out the infection, and also provides an antiseptic action and

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a bit of local immune stimulation.

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How to practically use plantain in prison.

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Where you might find plantain?

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Plantain is likely to be where people walk and on the edges of paths and beds.

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I commonly found it on the edges where the curbs were when we were

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working in the prison gardens.

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It might also be growing in beds, but it prefers poorer soil.

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Fresh leaf bites, cut scr, scrapes and stings.

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Chew a leaf in your mouth and then apply directly to the area.

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Hold there until the pain goes away or until the bleeding stops.

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You might want to swap to a new leaf if needed, especially if one has

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already drawn something out of there, like bits of gravel or insect poison.

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Bigger wounds.

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See the wound care section.

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Sore teeth and gums, tooth infections and mouth ulcers.

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You can chew and apply the leaf directly to the area and or you

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can make a strong tea and hold it and swish it around the mouth.

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Hemorroids, a strong infusion drunk internally will aid

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recovery from hemorrhoids.

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Addressing the root causes not so much bringing symptomatic relief.

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Fresh or dried leaves.

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Leaky gut syndrome, plantain is most effective at treating leaky

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gut when combined with other herbs.

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Commonly combined include calendula, chamomile,

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peppermint, fennel, and licorice.

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I think it is unlikely in prison that you would have access to all these plants.

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However, you might be able to buy camomile and peppermint on canteen.

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You would want to make a tea of whatever you can mix together or

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plantain, fresh or dry on its own and drink it throughout the day.

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It would be ideal for several weeks, if not months, if you were

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trying to recover from leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, or or other

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inflammatory digestive conditions.

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Respiratory infections and dry irritable coughs.

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Make a cold infusion with Plantain leaves to soothe an irritable, irritable cough,

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or to help clear a chest infection.

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Urinary tract infections.

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Plantain is a powerful ally for UTI infections, providing

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their hot in nature eg.

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Burning sensation, dryness, irritation or bleeding.

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Drink, strong infusions of cold plantain.

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It works well combined with the yarrow too.

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Seeds.

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Constipation, eat the seeds fresh or dried for extra roughage.

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Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism podcast.

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