The efficacy and function of fern grass

I wonder if you have ever heard of fern hemp. Bracken is very beneficial for regulating our body and can also play a good role in treating some diseases. Today let us look at the relevant knowledge about Bracken.

【English name】 Root of Silverweed Cinquefoil

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Potentilla anserina of the Rosaceae family.

[Original form] Potentilla is a perennial herb. The roots extend downward, and in Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet, the lower part of the roots swells into spindle-shaped or oval tubers. The stem is creeping, rooting at the nodes, and new plants often grow on the ground. The outside is covered with recumbent or semi-opened sparse soft hairs or falls off and is nearly glabrous. The basal leaves are intermittent pinnate compound. When flowering, the leaflets are obviously clustered, with 6-11 pairs, opposite or alternate, and the stem leaves are few or degenerate; the petioles are recumbent or semi-opened with sparse soft hairs, sometimes falling off and almost glabrous; the leaflets are sessile or the terminal leaflets have short petioles, the base of the top pair of leaflets extends downward and merges with the rachis, and the base leaflets gradually become smaller and attached; the basal leaf stipules are membranous, brown, connected to the petiole to form a sheath, and covered with sparse soft hairs or falling off and almost glabrous. The stipules of the stem leaves are leathery, light green, and deeply fissured; the leaflets are usually elliptical, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, with obtuse apex, cuneate or broad cuneate base, with numerous sharp serrations or lobes on the edges, green above, covered with sparse soft hairs or falling off and nearly glabrous, and densely covered with silvery-white silky hairs below. Single flower axillary; pedicel sparsely pubescent; flower diameter 1.5-2cm; 5 sepals, triangular ovate, apex acute or acuminate, 5 epicalyx segments, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, entire or with 2-4 teeth, nearly as long as sepals or slightly shorter; 5 petals, obovate, apex rounded, 1 times longer than sepals, yellow; flower branches lateral. Achenes ovate, pitted, with grooves on back. Flowering period is from May to July.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing on river banks, roadsides, hillside grasslands and meadows at an altitude of 500-4100m.

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【Pharmacological action】 1. Effect on smooth muscle: It contains two components that can contract and relax smooth muscle, but the effect is very weak. The relaxing or antispasmodic ingredients are glycosides or salts containing NH4. The component that enhances smooth muscle motility or increases tension (rat uterus and rat small intestine) is bile alkaloids. Some people report that it has good clinical effects on irregular menstruation, but has no antispasmodic effect on the uterus.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; bitter; cool

【Functions and indications】 Cools blood and relieves bleeding; detoxifies and removes dampness. Mainly used for various hemorrhagic dysentery, diarrhea, sores, boils and swellings

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 15-30g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

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