Plantain - the best healer for the stomach

Familiar to us from childhood, plantain can be found in every corner of our vast country. This shade-tolerant and unpretentious plant has a wide range of effects on the body. It is widely used to treat a variety of diseases. But a plantain for the stomach is especially useful. Due to its unique composition, the medicinal plant quickly removes pain and spasms, improves digestion and normalizes acidity.

Plantain medicinal - useful properties of the plant

The plant prefers dense and heavy soils, so it is most often found along roads, in wastelands and clogged places, in steppes and arid regions. It is rightly considered a natural antiseptic and used to treat various inflammatory processes. Leaves are often introduced into dietary food, adding them to salads and soups.

The use of plantain for the stomach is in its analgesic, enveloping, healing and anti-inflammatory action. It well tightens the damage to the mucosa, has a beneficial effect on gastric motility and purifies the blood. The medicinal plant quickly relieves not only of a cough or a cold, but also of many diseases of the digestive tract:

• gastritis;
• colitis and enterocolitis;
• enteritis;
• pains of unclear etiology;
• erosion of the gastric mucosa.

Phytochemical study of the quantitative and qualitative composition of plants has shown antiulcer action of plantain juice. On this basis, it is recognized as an indispensable medicine for severe forms of stomach ulcers, but only during remission.

Attention. All parts of the medicinal plant contain antimicrobial substances that effectively affect streptococci and staphylococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli.

When going to treat psyllium, you need to consult a doctor. The plant is far from harmless and has contraindications.

Use of plantain

All parts of the plant can be used to treat the stomach with plantain. From roots, seeds and leaves prepare tinctures and broths, make spirit extracts and squeeze out juice. Even the husk from seeds possesses useful properties.

Infusion from plantain

Tea from plantain is used for all diseases of the digestive tract. It has enveloping and wound healing effect, eliminates pain and heartburn. Drink it better warm, 30-40 minutes before eating.

So, how to brew a plantain for the stomach correctly? There are two options for preparing medical infusions:

1. Dry raw materials in the amount of 1 tbsp.l.pour a glass of hot( but not boiling) water and leave under the lid for 12-15 minutes. Use this tea is recommended 3-4 times a day before meals. Before each reception should make a fresh drink.
2. Infusion is made from 4 tbsp.l.dry leaf plantain and ½ liter hot water. Tea is insisted in the thermos for at least 2.5-3 hours and is consumed on a 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

In the first and second versions of the treatment course lasts 7 days. After a break, it is recommended to repeat the reception of tea.

Plantain syrup

Plantain with honey from the stomach is especially useful for peptic ulcer, gastritis with low acidity, flatulence, diarrhea and bleeding. At home, you can prepare an infusion or syrup with the addition of honey. It is pleasant to taste and well stored in the refrigerator.

Here are a few simple and effective recipes:

• grinded fresh meat on the meat grinder with honey in a ratio of 1k1, thoroughly kneaded and left in a sealed container until the honey completely dissolves;
• crushed in a meat grinder or in a blender plantain is placed in a glass jar, pouring layer by layer sugar, and cleaned for 2-3 months in a dark, cool place.

Caution. Plantain with sugar for the stomach can be taken with gastritis of any acidity and allergies to honey.

Juice of plantain

Fresh and juicy leaves of the plant receive healing juice. Concentrated product perfectly helps with ulcers and gastritis with low acidity. Ready liquid stored in the refrigerator for no more than 3 days and taken 1 time per day before breakfast for 2 weeks.

You can prepare a very useful drink from the juice of plantain and honey in equal proportions. Use it 3-4 times during the day on an empty stomach. The course of treatment lasts 1 month. If necessary, therapy can be repeated.

For longer storage, plantain juice can be mixed with vodka or alcohol in a ratio of 1: 1.The obtained tincture is kept in a dark place under the lid.

The use of plantain for the treatment of stomach

The plant is the main component of many natural medicines. Do not ignore his attention and traditional medicine. On the shelves of pharmacies you can meet a lot of medicines containing this amazing plant.

To the note. Plantain is actively used to combat food poisoning and dysentery. In addition to the properties listed above, the plant has a pronounced antitoxic effect.

There are many recipes for treating the stomach with plantain. The most effective of them will be discussed below.

Colitis and enterocolitis

Inflammatory disease of the mucosa of the thick and / or small intestine is accompanied by pain and impaired intestinal motility. The patient is haunted by flatulence, nausea and vomiting, rumbling in the abdomen. Plantain in colitis can quickly cope with the pathological condition and improve the patient's well-being.

Symptomatic disease will become less pronounced or completely disappear after a two-week treatment with infusion from dry leaves. For its preparation, the grass is poured with boiling water and insisted. The medicinal drink is consumed several times a day. If necessary, the course of therapy is repeated.

Gastritis

Inflammation of the gastric mucosa leads to disruption of the work of this organ. Deterioration of digestion and assimilation of food, a person suffering from heartburn and flatulence, pain in the epigastric region. These are signs of gastritis with low acidity. With increased secretory function, there is an eructation of sour, constipation and colic.

Plantain with gastritis can help with any acidity of the stomach. It brings the pH level back to normal and relieves spasmodic pain. With neurogenic forms of the disease, the plant prevents damage to the mucosa and internal bleeding.

Warning. Before proceeding to therapy, it is necessary to consult a gastroenterologist and find out the acidity. After all, the choice of the form of treatment will depend on the activity of the secretory function.

Features of treatment of gastritis with different acidity

Traditional medicine can offer many recipes for treating gastritis with plantain. In case of inflammation with normal secretory activity, juice mixed with honey is taken. The medicinal mixture is consumed 3 times a day during an exacerbation of gastritis or immediately at the time of discomfort.

A plant with honey well helps with gastritis, burdened with chronic colitis. The mixture quickly eliminates mucosal irritation and heals lesions.

Useful plantain and gastritis with high acidity. In this case it is recommended to take infusion from the leaves of the plant or a decoction of seeds. The latter drug is preferable, since the copulations contain a viscous mucus that envelops the walls of the stomach and protects them from the effects of acid. Therapeutic infusion or broth is consumed in a warm form of 100 ml in half an hour after eating.

Warning. When gastritis with increased secretion is not recommended to take plant juice and honey in any form.

And how to drink a plantain with gastritis with a decreased secretory activity? In this case, it is allowed to use juice, infusions and decoctions or syrups. Honey, too, will be very useful. Such treatment normalizes the separation of gastric juice and alleviates the symptoms of gastritis.

Gastric ulcer

Ulcerative lesions of the gastric mucosa often develop against a background of high activity of secretory activity. Under the influence of enzymes of bile and pepsin, destruction of the mucous membrane occurs and an expression appears, sometimes not one.

specialist. An ulcer is a dangerous disease that often leads to a hospital bed. Therefore, any action aimed at combating pathology, it is necessary to coordinate with the doctor. The gastroenterologist can recommend the treatment of gastric ulcers with psyllium in normal or reduced acidity. With increased secretion, the plant is used very carefully and only as directed by the doctor.

Tip. When ulcerative lesions of the gastric mucosa is recommended to enter the diet of fresh leaves of the plant, and dried and chopped raw materials to sprinkle ready meals. Infusions and syrups have a beneficial effect on the mucosa, normalize the acidity of the gastric secretion and eliminate pain. You can take the juice of a plant in its pure form or dilute it with water. The duration of treatment is at least 14 days. After a short break, the therapy is resumed. For greater effect, the medicines from the plantain are consumed for a long time.

Stomach erosion

If the mucosa is not very deep and the lesion does not leave a scar after healing, erosion of the stomach wall takes place. Her presence produces ulcerative or hemorrhagic symptoms:

• persistent pain in the epigastric region;

• anemia;
• heartburn;
• nausea and vomiting;
• gastric bleeding.

The use of plantain in gastric erosion is similar to the treatment of ulcers. The main task of therapy remains to reduce the negative impact on the walls of the body and the healing of lesions.

Painful sensations in the gastrointestinal tract

For mild discomfort in the epigastric zone, it is recommended to chew a few leaves of plantain. They can be put in salads, first and second courses, make a vitamin paste.

Plantain well cures stomach pain

Perfectly relieves discomfort in the stomach of a decoction of plant seeds. It is prepared from 2 tbsp.l.dry inflorescences and 350 ml of boiling water. The mixture is kept on a quiet fire for 15 minutes, filtered and taken at the time of discomfort.

Caution. Applying plantain for treatment, remember that pain can be a symptom of a serious gastrointestinal disease. So do not forget to visit a doctor.

Oncological alertness of

In case of neoplasm in the stomach, the juice of the plant mixed with honey will be very useful. Take the medicinal composition is recommended three times a day before meals. It is very important not to swallow the drug, but gradually to dissolve it.

Folk healers strongly advise using oncology to use a syrup, prepared from crushed and sugar-pounded plantain. This amazing composition stops the growth of neoplasms, improves the work of the stomach and heals the mucous membrane.

Contraindications

As mentioned above, plantain has a number of contraindications, so not all people can use it. The risk group includes:

• persons with an individual intolerance to the plant;
• pregnant and breastfeeding women;
• people with elevated blood pressure.

In addition, with great care and only for the prescription of the doctor should take decoctions and infusions of plantain with a tendency to thrombosis. If the dose is exceeded or prolonged admission, heartburn and eructation may occur.

When starting treatment of the stomach with plantain, it is necessary to understand that plants are not only a medicine. If not properly applied, they can become a poison and lead to undesirable consequences. Moreover, one can not begin to treat mucous membranes at home without consulting a specialist. But with proper use, plantain will perfectly complement the drug therapy and accelerate recovery.

Warning. The article is for informational purposes only. Consultation of the gastroenterologist is necessary.