#BotanyVlog Facts of Water Plantain (Alisma plantago aquatica)

#BotanyVlog Facts of Water Plantain (Alisma Plantago Aquatica) 11/11/2018

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Water Plantain (Alisma Plantago Aquatica) Traditional Use

According to Flora of the U.S.S.R. (1934, translated 1968), "A powder prepared from dried roots is used in popular medicine as a cure for rabies and crushed leaves are used againts mammary congestion; fresh leaves are employed in homeopathy. Since this species is often confounded or identified with others of the genus, the reported data may also refer to [Alisma orientale or Alisma lanceolatum]. Indeed Alisma Plantago Aquatica is also known as mad-dog weed, as if it could be used to cure rabies. Do not confuse this with Scuttelaria lateriflora (mad-dog skullcap), which is also sometimes called mad-dog weed.

Alisma orientale is osmetimes treated as a variety of this species (Alisma plantago-aquatica var. orientale) The rhizomes of A. orientale have been used as a traditional Chinese medicine, ze xie. However, it may have serious side effects or even toxic effects such as hepatotoxicity in patients with chronic hepatitis B.

Common Water-Plantain Description

Common water-plantain is a stout aquatic herb with oval shaped leaves, which may be rounded or heart shaped at the base. The pale lilac flowers are borne on a greatlly branching inflorescence, and open between 1pm and 7pm each day. The curvature of the ribs on the leaves of water plantain was one of the inspirational natural features used by John Ruskin in the development of his theories on gothic architecture; he claimed that they were models of divine proportion.