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19. Plantago major Linn --
{a.krau:paung: ta.htaung} Akyaw-baung-ta-htaung, 
{hpa:krau-rwak} Hpa-kyaw-ywet, 
{man:soat-rwak} Mahn-suit-ywet, 
{hsé:kyau-kri:}
Se-gyaw-gyiby Daw Mya Bwin and U Sein Gwan, Pharmacology Research Division, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Rangoon, 1973.
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19.
Plantago major
Linn --
{a.krau:paung: ta.htaung} Akyaw-baung-ta-htaung,
{hpa:krau-rwak} Hpa-kyaw-ywet,
{man:soat-rwak} Mahn-suit-ywet,
{hsé:kyau-kri:}
Se-gyaw-gyi
Family as given by authors: Plantaginaceae
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Burmese names:
{a.krau:paung: ta.htaung} Akyaw-baung-ta-htaung,
{hpa:krau-rwak} Hpa-kyaw-ywet,
{man:soat-rwak} Mahn-suit-ywet,
{hsé:kyau-kri:}Se-gyaw-gyi
Plantago Major Linn. Sp. Pl. 112 (1753).
Plantago erosa Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. i. 423, & Cat. 6412.
Plantago asiatica Linn. Sp. Pl. 163 (1753).
Plantago longiscapa Zacquem. mss.
English common name: English's Foot, Greater Plantain, Plantain Ribgrass,
Plantain Ribwort, Ripple Grass.
Description
A perennial herb with an erect stout rootstock. Leaves radical alternate,
ovate, or oblong-ovate, 3-7 ribbed, sinuate-toothed, or obtuse margin, petiole
(leaf stalk) five nerved usually longer than the leaf blade. Flowers small,
crowded in long slender rather cylindric, lax spikes, white in colour.
Fruit, ovoid capsules, when mature the top coming off as a conical lid tipped
with the remains of the style. Seeds small, dull black, angled. Family Plantaginaceae.
Flowering and fruiting the whole year round.
Distribution
Grows wild along the streams and river banks, also in shady and moist places,
temperate climate, Taunggyi, Kalaw, Maymyo, Kyauk-me, and also in the Kachin
States, Moulmein and cultivated for its medicinal properties in Rangoon.
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Uses
Locally the infusion is taken orally in the belief that it produces a fall in blood pressure. 1
Grounded leaves is also applied to swollen wounds and sores.
Leaves and roots acts as astringent and used in fever.
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fn16-01 Khin Kyi Kyi, Mya-Bwin, Sein-Gwan, Chit-Maung, Aye-Than. M. Mya-Tu & Saw Johnson Tha (1971). Hypotensive property of Plantago major Linn. -- Union of Burma Z. Life Sei. 4, 167--171. fn16-01b
fn16-02 Chopra, R. N., S. L. Nayar & I. C. Chopra (1956). Glossary of Indian medicinal plants. p 196. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research: New Delhi. fn16-02b
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