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{{stub}}'''Plantago major''' is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. The plant is native to most of Europe and northern and central Asia, but has widely naturalised elsewhere in the world.'''Indian mangrove''' is an evergreen shrub or tree, usually growing 8 - 18 metres tall but exceptionally to 25 metres.

{{Uses|Irritable bowel syndrome}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Constipation}}, {{Uses|Hemorrhoids}}.

Among the flavonoids isolated are baicalein, hispidulin, plantaginin and scutellarein. These have free radical scavenging activity and inhibit lipid peroxidation, and the first 3 are anti-oxidants. Baicalein has anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and hepatoprotective activities, it showed inhibition of human and rat cancer cell lines, and it is a HIV-reverse transcriptase inhibitor in vitro.<ref name="chemical composition"/>