The efficacy and function of fern

Traditional Chinese medicine often has unexpected effects in the treatment of certain diseases, so you can choose it with confidence. However, when choosing Chinese medicine, you need to understand the medicine so that when treating the disease, you will know what kind of medicine is the best choice. Let us introduce the traditional Chinese medicine fern.

【English Name】 Ivorywhite Sreuthiopteris

[Other names] Comb grass, swan eggs, saw grass, comb grass, iron fern

[Source] Medicinal material source: The rhizome of the plant Pteris cretica of the Pteridaceae family.

【Original morphology】Plant height 25-60cm. The rhizome is short and thick, lying obliquely, and densely covered with chestnut brown, lanceolate scales. Leaves are nearly clustered and dimorphic; petioles of nutrient leaves are 3-15cm long and straw-colored; leaf blades are lanceolate, thickly leathery, 20-45cm long, 2.5-6cm wide, with sharp tips, gradually narrowing at the base, smooth on both sides, and pinnately fissured once almost reaching the rachis; lobes gradually narrow to ear-shaped toward the lower part, the middle part is 1.5-2.5cm long, 4-6mm wide, short-pointed, entire, with a single, inconspicuous lateral vein. The sporophylls are usually slightly longer, with short, narrow lobes. The sori are linear, growing within the leaf margin and parallel to the midrib; the sori cap is linear, attached to the outer edge, opening toward the midrib when mature, with edges more or less gnawed.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing on arid limestone walls at an altitude of 500-1800m.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; Cool

【Channel】 Lung; Heart; Liver; Bladder

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and dampness; disperses blood stasis and reduces swelling. Mainly used for stranguria; traumatic injury; sore, carbuncle, swelling and pain

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 6-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": The whole plant: sweet, astringent, and cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling. Used for urinary tract infection, traumatic injury, furuncle and carbuncle.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Everyone should know the effects and functions of the pod fern. The pod fern has high medicinal value and is a very common Chinese medicinal material. It is very good for our body.