#Autumn Life Punch Season##Daily Shoot of Green Plants#[Bixin] Today we will introduce an edible and medicinal plant, plantain. Why is it called plantain? According to legend, there was a groom who fed horses in ancient times

#Autumn Life Punch Season# #Daily Shooting of Green Plants#

[Bixin] Today we will introduce an edible and medicinal plant, psyllium. Why is it called plantain? According to legend, in ancient times, there was a horseman who fed horses, observed that some horses in the herd urinated clearly and ate well, while other horses did not eat or drink, peed less and urinated reddish, after careful observation by the horseman, found that those horses with good appetite often ate the weeds that grew in front of the carriage, and fed these weeds to those sick horses to eat, and as a result, the next day these sick horses were all well, so the grass was named plantain.

Plantain is an annual or biennial herb of the plantain family, with short rhizomes, basal leaves, rosette-like flat lying leaves, obliquely spread or erect growth, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, leaves sharply pointed or slightly blunt at the apex, shallow wavy blunt teeth on the edges, slightly concave veins on the upper part of the leaves, and protruding veins on the back. The spikes are thin cylindrical, and the capsules are ovate-oval.

[Bixin] seedlings can be eaten as wild vegetables, boiled in boiling water and then cooled, stir-fried. The whole plant can be used in medicine, sweet and cold, with diuretic, heat-clearing, eye-brightening, expectorant effects.