Plantain, Common Botanical: Plantago major (LINN.) Family: N.O. Plantaginaceae * Description * Medicinal Action and Properties — Synonyms—Broad-leaved Plantain. Ripple Grass. Waybread. Slan-lus. Waybroad. Snakeweed. Cuckoo”s Bread. Englishman”s Foot. White Man”s Foot. (Anglo-Saxon) Weybroed.— Parts Used—Root, leaves, flower-spikes. The Common Broad-leaved Plantain is a very familiar perennial ”weed,” and may be found anywhere by roadsides and in meadow-land.— Description—It grows from a very short rhizome, which bears below a great number of long, straight, yellowish roots, and above, a large, radial rosette of leaves and a few Iong, slender, densely-flowered spikes. The leaves are ovate, blunt, abruptly contracted at the base into a long, broad, channelled footstalk (petiole). The blade is 4 to 10 inches long and about two-thirds as broad, usually smooth, thickish, five […] Read More