To find an answer on two questions.

A how will work a bowel is your organism healthy, and if bowel is lazy,and stool is hard, and weight is big, and my answer is plantain use, as preparing of seeds and leaves. Of leaves cooking decoction, freezing his and rub a face with cure ice, and seeds use on a morning empty stomach, and on evening before sleep, as one coffee spoon in a glass of water shaking, as remedy helps for  too soft a stool,and get slim, and seeds swelling in the stomach,and in bowel, and eat you do not a want, and organism clean. 
And big plantain is antiseptic, expectorant, calm, lows ache, heals, secretogogue, cleans, infusion of leaves expectorant is, cures dysentery, stomach ulcer, bowel, inflamed of a urinary bladder.