The mass fraction of moisture in the dry extract is not more than 10%
Mass fraction of moisture in the thick extract is not more than 50%
Mass fraction of insoluble substances in water not more than 5%
Mass fraction of fructosans and fructosides in the dry extract (in terms of inulin), not less than 2.0%
Mass fraction of fructosans and fructosides in the thick extract (in terms of inulin), not less than 1.5%
Plantain used for therapeutic purposes for a long time. Even Avicenna used the leaves and seeds of the plant as a wound healing and hemostatic agent. In Chinese and Tibetan medicine, plantain is known as a wound healing, diuretic, expectorant and hypoglycemic agent. Leaves and seeds of the plant, preparations from plantain are released by pharmacies. The leaves are harvested during flowering plants and used fresh, dried, and the seeds are harvested Mature. In folk medicine, plantain is used as a tonic, anti-inflammatory, softening, soothing, expectorant, bactericidal, hypoglycemic, wound healing, hemostatic agent, it has an anti-allergic effect, is effective in diathesis, eczema, psoriasis, diabetic itching, when combined with diabetes mellitus with allergic conditions.
Preparations of plantain large stimulate digestion, increase appetite, useful for bloating, colitis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, tumors of the stomach and intestines, diseases of the gall bladder. The juice of a fresh plant or a decoction of seeds is an active cough expectorant, they are drunk, combining with honey for bronchitis, bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, lung cancer, whooping cough. Infusion of fresh leaves acts as a tonic for fatigue, loss of strength, fatigue, diabetes, anemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis, bladder inflammation, kidney disease, and nocturnal incontinence. Infusion and juice of fresh leaves are also used to relieve toxicosis during pregnancy, poisoning with salts of heavy metals, uterine bleeding.
Juice or decoction of leaves has long been treated in traditional medicine pustular skin diseases, boils, carbuncles, non-healing wounds, bruises, bedsores, diabetic gangrene. Lotions of broth or juice of a fresh plant are imposed on skin diseases, including the malignant type, on erysipelas. Plantain juice, mixed with raw egg white, is used to treat first and second degree burns. Broth seeds drink with infertility, diabetes mellitus with infertility and a decrease in sexual function. Juice and decoction of the leaves rinse the mouth with periodontal disease, including diabetic. Powder leaves of plantain is the basis of the ointment, which is effective for eczema, rash of allergic and pustular type, for the treatment of purulent wounds.
