22/08/2026
Let's Talk herbs:
Plant name:Plantago Major
usually you find it where there is rivers or on the sides of the river bunks, this one's on pictures below was found growing in our garden, it grows in our garden because of our technique of mulching our garden beds for keeping moisture, thus herb it's a w**d to some people but it is not just a w**d but a useful herb in medicinal cabinet...
Uses: It can be used to heal wounds, asthma, fever and eye disorders. In other countries,it has been used to treat skin ulceration (cutaneous leishmaniasis). Plantago Major has been used in the treatment of ulcers by taking the powdered dried leaves together with honey daily before breakfast.The infusion of the leaf has been taken for diarrhoea, ulcers, bloody urine, digestive disorders, and excess mucous
discharge. THE poultice of this herb made out of it's leaves it's for pain, swelling, cuts, wounds, sores, infections, blisters, insect
bites, snakebites and haemorrhoids. Its seeds are used to induce sweating, increase flow of urine, treat diarrhoea, dysentery, rheumatism, malaria, asthma, kidney problems, bladder diseases, gonorrhoea and piles. Its roots are used to treat fever, respiratory infections and constipation. It can be internally used for catarrhs of the respiratory tract and inflammatory alterations of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa while its external application is approved for inflammatory reac-
tions of the skin.
With: Evergreen Hideout and Kutlwano Icantbegreedy Mokoena
