A passage from Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States:
Internally, the tea or fresh juice diminishes mucus membrane heat. Use it for intestinal inflammation with corresponding diarrhea. It’s also a soothing diuretic that lessens urinary tract irritation and burning urination. Additionally, the plant reduces bronchial irritation particularly when the lungs feel hot and dry.
A passage from Wild Edible Plants of Arizona:
Plantain is entirely edible, yet the young springtime leaves are the choice part. They can be eaten fresh, but most find them better as a cooked green.
A passage from Wild Edible Plants of Colorado:
All other species of Plantain are edible (or at least not poisonous), though this species is considered more palatable than others.
View photos of the edible and medicinal plant Plantago rugelii (Blackseed plantain), profiled in the Wild Edible Series: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
A passage from Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States:
Toadflax is one of the stronger Figwort family (alternatively placed in the Plantain family) plant medicines of the West. More potent than related Penstemon and Figwort, yet not quite as harsh as the more eastern growing Culver’s root (Leptandra), well dosed, Toadflax is able to modify a whole range of gastrointestinal and hepatic issues.
Author, Researcher, Clinician. Latest titles: Wild Edible Plants of Oklahoma, 2nd ed., Wild Edible Plants of Arizona, 2nd ed., and Wild Edible Plants of Arkansas, 2nd. ed.
