The efficacy and function of hairy leaf fern

Recently, major TV channels have launched various health programs, and food programs have also introduced special health-preserving dietary therapy methods. In all aspects, it is shown that the concept of health preservation is gradually deepening in people's understanding. Next, we will introduce a health-preserving medicinal material, the hairy-leaved Nephrolepis.

【English name】 all-grass of Hirsute Sword Fern

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Pteris cretica, a plant of the Pteridaceae family.

【Original morphology】Plant height 45-110cm. The rhizome is short and erect, covered with dark brown, lanceolate scales; the stolons are borne on the rhizome, dark brown, and covered with scales; the leaves are hard grassy or papery, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 30-75cm long, 10-15cm wide, slightly narrowed at both ends, and pinnate; the lower side is densely covered with linear scales along the midrib and veinlets, and the upper side is short-haired; the rachis is densely covered with fibrous scales above, and sparsely covered with scales below; the pinnae are 20-45 pairs, not covering each other, alternate, nearly sessile, and borne on the rachis at the joints, the middle pinnae are larger, broadly lanceolate, 4-7cm long, about 1cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex, asymmetrical at the base, rounded on the lower side, truncated on the upper side and protruding into a small triangular auricle, with sparse and blunt teeth on the edge, the lower pinnae are shorter, broadly lanceolate, 3-4cm long; the lateral veins are slender, 2-3 forked, with a rounded water vesicle at the apex. The sori are round, dorsally located at the tip of the lateral veinlets on each group of lateral veins, close to the leaf edge; the sori cover is round, with one notch, and membranous.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: grows on forest edges, valleys and roadsides near villages.

【Nature and flavor】 Light; Cool

【Meridian】 Spleen meridian

【Functions and indications】Dissipating accumulation and resolving phlegm. It is used to treat infantile malnutrition and food stagnation.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Whole plant: light taste, cool nature. It has the function of eliminating accumulation and resolving phlegm. Used for indigestion in children.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is the introduction to the hairy-leaved fern. I believe you will be able to understand it after reading it. After knowing the effects and functions of the hairy-leaved fern, you can adjust it according to your own physical condition.