Lisan al-hamal-large plantain

Essence.
It comes in two types: small and large. Dioscorides says that it is called "many-ribs" and "seven-ribs." The leaves of the large one are larger, and the leaves of the small one are smaller. Its substance is combined with wateriness and earthiness; its wateriness is cooling, and its earthiness is constricting.

Choice.
The most useful plantain is the large one; its fruit and root are close in nature to leaves, but drier and less cold.

Nature.
Plantain root is drier and less moist; its coldness is not so great as to cause numbness, and its dryness does not reach the point of burning, so it is extremely good for ulcers. Plantain is sparse, especially if it is dried. Galen says: "It is cold, dry to the third degree."

Actions and properties.
Its leaves are astringent and distracting and, moreover, have a cold, watery quality. They prevent bleeding, and when dried, they do not burn; therefore, they ““promote the healing of old and fresh ulcers, and for ulcers there is nothing better than this. They open blockages due to their cleansing properties. The root of this plant is hung around the neck of a patient with mumps.

Tumors and acne.
Plantain is good for hot tumors and fire burns, herpes, urticaria, erysipelas, tumors at the base of the ear and “mumps”.

Wounds and ulcers.
Plantain is good for malignant ulcers, for “Persian fire”, for creeping ulcers, chronic ulcers and deep wounds and is in this regard ahead of all medicines. Mixed with Kimolos clay and lead white, it helps if applied to the carbuncle.

Tools with joints.
A medicinal bandage is made from plantain for elephantiasis, which prevents the growth of the tumor and promotes its fall.

Organs of the head.
Plantain is useful for ear pain due to fever. A decoction of its root helps as a gargle for toothache. Lentil soup with plantain instead of beets helps with epilepsy. If you let in drops of the squeezed juice of its leaves when you have ear pain, the pain will calm down, and chewing the root, its stem, or rinsing with their decoction will relieve toothache. The juice of its leaves also cures kula.

Organs of the eye.
Plantain helps with eye inflammation; medicines for inflammation are dissolved in its squeezed juice, and this is beneficial.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Plantain seeds are useful for hemoptysis, and lentil stew, in which it is placed instead of beets, helps with asthma.

Nutritional organs.
Plantain root, its seeds and leaves are a remedy against blockages of the liver and kidneys. When you cook lentil soup and put plantain in it instead of beets, such a soup is useful for dropsy.

Eruption organs.
Plantain in the form of a drink from the seeds or an enema from its squeezed juice is useful for ulcers in the intestines and for bilious diarrhea. It stops bleeding from kidney problems, and its leaves are drunk with wine for pain in the bladder and kidneys.

Fevers.
They say that plantain is useful for three-day, that is, intermittent fever. They also say that for a three-day fever, one should drink three roots of plantain in four and a half ukiyah of diluted wine, and for a four-day fever, four t-auger roots with wine.

Poisons.
Plantain is applied with salt to the place bitten by a rabid dog.