The efficacy and function of the spiral cocktail

For any kind of medicinal material, only when we understand its main ingredients can we bring its efficacy and function into better play. Here I recommend a very popular Chinese medicinal material, Chicken Tail.

[Alias] Line chicken tail, seven-star grass (Herbal Prescriptions), sword-blade grass, sword-blade fern, Liantie grass, seven-star sword, hairy Lian grass (Guangxi Chinese Veterinary Medicinal Plants), seven-star phoenix tail grass (Compilation of Common Folk Herbs), golden chicken tail, stone shoulder pole (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica), large-leafed golden star (Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Resources List), golden star sword, large seven-star sword, ox tongue yellow (Quanzhou Materia Medica), snake-chopping sword, Liantian grass, iron-wrapped gold, large jingdao grass (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), big stone ferns, dragon tongue grass (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine).

[Source] It is the whole herb or the whole herb with roots of the Polypodiaceae plant Pteris jiangnanensis . Available all year round.

[Original morphology] Perennial epiphytic herb, 50 to 70 cm tall. The rhizome is horizontal, thin and weak, sparsely covered with scales; the scales are broadly ovate, acute, light brown, and fall off early. The leaves are closely spaced, with a petiole 3-15 cm long; the leaf blades are narrowly linear-lanceolate to broadly linear-lanceolate, 30-45 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, narrowly pointed at both ends, entire, nearly leathery, light green, with inconspicuous veins. The sori are large, brown-yellow, arranged in one or two irregular rows, close to the midrib, without a cover and without septa.

[Habitat distribution] It grows on rocks, trees or in shady places such as cracks in roof tiles. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, cold.

[Entry into meridians] "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "enters the liver, spleen, heart, and lung meridians."

【Functions and indications】 Clears heat, cools blood, relieves stranguria and detoxifies. It is used to treat stranguria due to heat, metrorrhagia, vomiting blood, epistaxis, dysentery due to heat, hemorrhoidal bleeding, lung abscess, tuberculosis cough, scrofula, and sores.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 0.5 to 1 liang.

【Note】 Those with cold deficiency should take with caution.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating pulmonary tuberculosis and cough with blood: 2 to 3 liang of fresh southern star fern, decocted in water and mixed with rock sugar for oral administration. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

【Source】 From "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records"

The above content is an introduction to the traditional Chinese medicine Convolvulus aconitifolia. In our daily lives, we should learn more about Convolvulus aconitifolia so that we can use it more reasonably and better maximize its value.