The efficacy and function of Pteris integrinus

As people's research on traditional Chinese medicine deepens, they gradually understand the detailed ingredients in various traditional Chinese medicines and the impact of these ingredients on everyone's health. Below I would like to recommend a Chinese medicine, Pteris indica, to you all and describe the effects of Pteris indica in detail. I hope it will be helpful to your study and research.

【English name】 Conspicuous Brake

[Other names] Chicken-foot lotus, well grass, wall grass, Pushan sword, iron fern

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

[Original form] Terrestrial fern, plant height 40-150cm. The rhizome is short, woody, black, and covered with dark brown diamond-shaped scales at the top. Leaves are clustered, monomorphic, thick papery, light brown when dry; petioles are straw-colored, glabrous, 60-90cm long, cylindrical, slightly enlarged at the base, with narrow grooves on the surface; leaf blades are ovate or ovate-oblong, 18-80cm long, 15-30cm wide, odd-pinnate; pinnae are 6-13 pairs, linear-lanceolate, about 20cm long, opposite or nearly opposite, ascending obliquely, the upper spore pinnae are 1-1.5cm wide, the lower nutrient pinnae are 2-2.6cm wide, entire, with cartilaginous edges; leaf veins are obvious, and the veinlets are bifurcated. The sori are narrowly linear, attached to the upper part of the margin of the pinnae, with the base and tip of the pinnae fertile below; the sori cap is linear and grayish white.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown under dense forests in valleys, beside shady and damp ditches or on rock walls.

【Nature and flavor】 Slightly bitter; cool

【Meridian】 Liver meridian

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and dampness; promotes blood circulation and reduces swelling. Mainly used for dysentery, sore throat, scrofula, jaundice, hematuria, hot stranguria, rheumatic bone pain, and traumatic injury

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 10-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Whole plant: slightly bitter in taste, cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Used for jaundice, dysentery, trauma, rheumatism, throat swelling and infection, scrofula, hematuria and various bleeding syndromes.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Through the introduction of the effects and functions of the Pteris integrifolia, everyone knows its magic. In fact, there are many seemingly ordinary people or things in life that contain power that we cannot imagine. Now that everyone knows the magical therapeutic effects and functions of the Pteris integrifolia, you can try it and test whether it is effective.