Plantain Plant Benefits + Healing Digestive Tea
Herbs with Rosalee
Rosalee de la Forêt
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
There are so many plantain plant benefits! What some may dismiss as common or even a pesky weed is actually a powerhouse of medicine. Plantain leaf can help to soothe a range of complaints from itchy bug bites to irritating coughs to persistent wounds to an inflamed gut.
You’ll come away from this with a great overview of this versatile herb’s many gifts, tips for plantain identification and lots of ideas for working with plantain safely and effectively.
You’ll also receive instant access to a plantain leaf tea recipe so next time you (or someone you love) needs some healing and soothing relief for their digestive tract, you’ll be prepared.
Show snippet:
“Plantain is an obvious choice for many first aid or acute inflammations, but it is equally useful for chronic hot conditions, especially in the digestive tract.”
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On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
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Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. She's a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and teaches many popular online courses. Read about how Rosalee went from having a terminal illness to being a bestselling author in her full story here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Herbs with Rosalie podcast, a show exploring how herbs heal as medicine, |
| 0:10.0 | as food, and through nature connection. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Rosalie de la Foray. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm an herbalist teacher and the best-selling author of the books Alchchemy of Herbs, and Wild Remedies. |
| 0:21.8 | I created this podcast to share trusted herbal wisdom so that you can get the best results |
| 0:26.3 | when relying on herbs for your health. I love offering up practical knowledge to help you |
| 0:32.2 | dive deeper into the world of medicinal plants and seasonal living. My goal is that you'll walk away from each episode feeling inspired to start working with |
| 0:41.9 | herbs in your everyday life. |
| 0:44.6 | Each episode of the podcast is available on my Herbs with Rosalie YouTube channel, as well |
| 0:49.9 | as your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:52.6 | Transcripts and recipes for each episode can be found at |
| 0:55.8 | Herbs with Rosaliepodcast.com. To get the latest news as well as fun bonuses, be sure to sign up |
| 1:02.7 | for my weekly herbal newsletter. Okay, grab your cup of tea. Let's dive in. Don't be deceived by |
| 1:10.6 | the humble plantain plant. |
| 1:12.6 | What some may dismiss as a common or even pesky weed is actually a powerhouse of medicine, |
| 1:18.6 | ranging from everything from irritating coughs to persistent wounds and to even healing radiation damage. |
| 1:25.6 | That's right! There are so many plantain plant benefits and I'm |
| 1:29.3 | going to share them with you in this video. I'm also going to include a recipe for a healing |
| 1:34.2 | plantain leaf tea. Plantain holds an especially dear place in my heart. It was the first herb I |
| 1:41.1 | learned when I started my herbal journey almost 20 years ago. |
| 1:45.0 | And even after all this time, this plant still amazes me. |
| 1:49.0 | In this video, I'll share important information about plantain benefits so that you can work with this plant |
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