A Plant clarification please

[BILLy]

Hi
Picked this yesterday and I think it maybe Narrow leaf Plantain.
Would like clarification please.

Cheers
Bill

 

[Mesquite]

Looks like Plantago lanceolata

 

[Harvestman]

Otherwise known as ribwort plantain.

 

[BILLy]

Thanks guys, going to have a look see what uses it has now like edible/madicinal

 

[Harvestman]

Not much as an edible. It can be eaten but is rather a starvation food for if you are really desperate.

 

[xylaria]

The seeds taste good but have a medical effect of being a bulk laxative. Useful to know if you sit next to hillbill and he offers you a biscuit. After he says have another he will grin. Then he offers you third buscuit which after he tell you they army issue biscuits brown otherwize known as bowel concrete. Plantain cookies are the antidote. Collect a good amount of seeds de husk and winnow. Then boil up until it is a black goop. Added a little sugar then smear across baking sheet and bake in low oven for an hour. The biccies are like sesame snaps. One tastes good any more than three is a medical dose.

 

[xylaria]

Plantain leaves are really good on hives and bites btw.

 

[Macaroon]

This plant is also extremely effective for getting rid of embedded catarh and blocked sinus, ears and that department

 

[mountainm]

This plant is also extremely effective for getting rid of embedded catarh and blocked sinus, ears and that department

Yeah, but you have to shove it well up your nostril

 

[Macaroon]

Yeah, but you have to shove it well up your nostril

Just be very sure you've got a few feet of paracord attatched so you can pull it back down in case of mishap

 

[BILLy]

I have found about the same really, not a great edible but ok for other uses as you`ve said, Great info thanks again all

 

[smojo]

You can eat the flower buds when very young - like when they first appear about a cm long. They taste like mushrooms. Add them raw to salads etc.

 

[Blaidd]

Had this pop into my newsfeed recently, I thought it was a good roundup about its uses. (The headline on the article gave me a chuckle as well)

http://theprepperproject.com/plantain-edible-medicinal-weed