Plantago majoris herba

الوصف

Pharmacological properties. Aqueous preparations (infusions and extracts) from plantain leaves have a regulatory effect on gastric secretion, that is, during hyposecretion, they excite it, and during hypersecretion, they reduce it, which can only be explained by the effect on the inflammatory process in the stomach, accompanying both hyposecretion and hypersecretion. In both cases, a decrease in inflammatory phenomena leads to the normalization of secretory activity. The anti-inflammatory effect is due to polysaccharides (mucus, pectins), carotenes and vitamin U. In experiments, psyllium preparations also inhibit the motor activity of the stomach and have an antispasmodic effect. Pectin substances of plantain in granular form ("Plantaglucid") have a protective effect against stomach ulcers caused in the experiment by butadione. Preparations from plantain leaves in rabbits normalize the content of cholesterol, b-lipoproteins, total lipids, phospholipid / cholesterol ratio, and reduce the prevalence of aortic atheromatosis. Plantain has some calming effect, lowers blood pressure.

Plantain has expectorant and emollient properties. Like all mucus, plantain protects the epithelium of the respiratory tract, has an anti-inflammatory effect, helps to thin sputum, normalize the properties of the surfactant of the respiratory tract and restore the functions of the ciliated epithelium.

Locally, plantain for wounds and ulcers caused by experiment, accelerates healing, has a hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect.