Plantain

It grows in meadows and fields, and by pathsides. It is also called way-bread, and way broad leaf.

The leaves are bitter and astringent, and have been long held in popular esteem as a wound herb. They are used as an external application to ulcers, and indolent scrofulous tumours. The root has been found useful in intermittents. A mucilage prepared from the seeds has been found beneficial in the catarrhal and mild inflammatory form of diarrhoea. The juice is excellent for pains in the bowels; it restrains fluxes, spitting of blood, bloody urine, proceeding from an ulcerated bladder, and bleeding wounds.