Plants of Saint Lucia

Plantago major
Planten is well known as an eye bush. It is either boiled or pounded and the juice extracted. For worms a teaspoon full of seeds in put in wine and boiled. For migraine headache, nine leaves are warmed and tied on the forehead for nine days. Planten is also used with other herbs for stroke, to start menstruation, for colds, and for bles.