hi this is Preston from live healthy and blessed we're going to show you how to identify and use plantain this is plantain this is the big kind that we have found this is really really big pointing shown the back of it yeah there's the bet it has these veins running through and there's one two three four and five there's five veins so what happens when you break it it kind of looks like celery report that's real stringy like celery like I really like to those greenness but this is a really big plantain because it got really big because we didn't know over it with a lawn mower this is all our like this is the big plantain but stas use this don't yeah it's the same stuff but it just hasn't grown it's big it can grow really big see it's got all those veins going up through the back of it and this kind of got like just a regular leaf shape and then there's a string right out of it you can even pull it see and that's one of the ways that you can identify plaintain because it's always got those veins going straight up and down from the middle and then it's got these little veins like I said they can get really big really big so we've got a bunch of it in here one of my friends she said that she found I heard this is kind of leaf she said this stuff was plantain I said no that is not plenty she said yes it is I said nope and it only has one thing wait he's very wrinkly yeah break it apart and see it's really not gonna yeah doesn't do it doesn't do it no veins and also this is growing up from a stock and plaintain see this is ready arrow all along the I found this room right here it's guys grow out of the middle it's just probably the stuff she was thinking about it's out this stuff is kind of a little bit wrinkly this is very very smoothly that's got a leaf shape this one here which is not plaintain it's got the little veins that kind of go out like yeah this thing only has five veins I'm still looking sometimes have seven too but it is it stems like this see this not one have shown yeah and it's it's sometimes it can kind of have a little bit of a roughly shape on the edge some of them are a little bit more these are little ones and they can be even really really tiny to some of the little baby ones damn it this right here is actually playing tain too but it's very small you can still see the same leaf sort of structure there it looks like it really actually looks like baby spinach growing up from the ground little pieces spinach it's got those pointing up from the bottom and these are very tiny little baby ones but if you ever needed some real quick you could just go grab these a whole bunch of these little ones this is plantain and this is the very skinny skinny plantain like the other big plantain and it's like like this big sort of and like very very fat this stuff is very very skinny this one has these have more veins it's not crinkly on that just see there is no it isn't crinkly this thing is like straight so like this stuff is a little bit crinkly but it's basically the same size so but they don't not one thing that only has one vein and this stuff it has one dude that one's got a lot of this one has like six so if you find something like this don't think oh I can just pick something else like this stuff so just think just this is not planting that only has one vein this thing only now these things don't have these big old fault not big ol flowers but these flowers that these little things that's what grows up if it has time it'll grow this is a little fire but it's not growing up all the way because if you have this on it sometime when is sometimes you're just walking around the yard there's no flower but a lot of times you have flowers on here sometimes there's no flower you can just look at it you can see these veins like plants well see they always grow out from the middle this is the center these things they grow out like that you don't think oh that's a very tiny one but see it's got the lines grow all the way that was growing right here so I think I think it has to grow a little bit bigger so and look at this one here this is not plantain even though this is growing out see it's all Ripley this is all Ripley and of course it still does not have the veins going straight up and down imagine eating a stroke I think that's actually Daniel I know it's Daniel but it's not the root of Daniel is pretty good it's very uh what happened cannon what's the matter Oh No where does it hurt okay question resting come get some plantain please is it hurt really bad cam yes Oh No okay chew it up shut it up real quick quick it's hurting so bad please quick okay good Oh oh man does that feel better oh isn't it good that God's provided us natural medicine that's right in our backyard plantain does that taste good preston tastes like grass doesn't Oh Kimmy's gonna live now look at that green slime yucky all right good job cannon okay if it's not an emergency situation and somebody's not getting hurt outside what you can do is just go and get a bunch of plaintain I have a mortar and pestle I actually bought it on Amazon just for this purpose for grinding on my herbs and you can go pick a bunch of fresh plaintain and then just go grind that up and the other day actually my daughter hailey she got stung by a lot of ants all over her feet and I wasn't about to come inside and take the time to go and do this because she was screaming in agony and so I just went and found a bunch that was right outside of our front porch it's a good idea to identify a plaintain in your yard before there's an emergency that way you know where to go get it sometimes we've had to go up the night or at least it's not really in the mill the night when it's dark and we do wear a look we didn't have to go out there with a flashlight we knew right where it was in the yard already and it'll keep going in the same spot when she'd wrote it down but anyways my daughter she got bit by all these ants and so I just grabbed the whole pile and just stuck it in my mouth and chewed it all up and put it right on her her leg and then I went and took a little cloth and wrapped it around it and kept it kept it on there real good and reapplied it I think a couple more times and it really helps with the swelling and the pain really well and works for bee stings wasp stings the ant bites sometimes you know somebody might have gotten I heard if somebody got stung them throat one time and they were my neighbor said this I believe and somebody got stung and their whole throat was filling up and they couldn't hardly breathe so they chewed and swallowed because you can actually eat plantain it's not going to kill you it just doesn't taste very good she even swallowed up a whole bunch of plaintain and it it helped them be able to breathe and so this is really something you want to be able to learn and I'm terrified because it's usually anywhere you go you can find some somewhere nearby and so it could mean a life and death situation especially if somebody's can't breathe goodbye Spider Riders and they were to spider anything it has drawing properties painting so it's going to help draw out affection and poisons and stings venom all those kinds of things okay so you just go and take your mortar and pestle and we're just going to grind up your herbs mash it up real good I'm gonna not gonna do it too loud little but I like to add a little bit of water I didn't used to do that I just had a little bit of arm before when I did not it was harder to apply the crushed up plaintain and now that I had a little bit of water it really gets a nice good see it but it's got a good green juice in there and that will help absorb into your bandage or you can even put it on band-aid I did that for my daughter and it's got a really bad mosquito bite to help draw all that stuff out cause it's swelling up really bad and so just we just grind it up and move it you can put it on a bandage and you can pour some of that leftover juice in there so they'll get really all over the place and then you can wrap it you know on somebody's arm you can tie it around the leg or like I said you can even put it on a big band-aid and let it sit there for a very long time and it'll really help reduce the swelling and the pain