I cut my finger while chopping cabbage for coleslaw today. As it is a nice spring day I decided fresh plantain weed would make a nice wound healing bandage. Plantain weed is a perennial plant produces greenish flowers with large, oval-shaped leaves that can be eaten raw or cooked. Properly known as broadleaf plantain ( Plantago major ). Moreover t he entire broadleaf plantain plant is edible from root to seed. Nutrients include vitamin A, as well as vitamins C and K, zinc, potassium, and silica. Plantain seeds are rich in proteins, carbohydrates and omega 3 fatty acids. The plantain's seed coat contains up to 30% mucilage, giving it a gelatinous quality when wet. You can grind up plantain seeds in their husks to use as thicke...