The efficacy and function of Thick-leaved Cynomorium

Diseases require improvement through medicine. Different diseases require different medicine choices. If you want to treat your disease well, you need to use the right medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine Croton tiglium is also very helpful in treating certain diseases. Let’s take a look at this medicinal herb.

【English Name】 Thick-leaf Holly Fern

[Source] Medicinal material source: The rhizome of the Dryopteris cyrtonema, a plant of the Dryopteris family.

【Original form】Plant height 50-70cm. The rhizome is short and obliquely ascending, and together with the base of the petiole, is densely covered with large reddish-brown, narrowly lanceolate scales, nearly entire. Leaves are clustered; petioles are 35-45cm long, black and hard at the base, sparsely covered with light brown, fibrous scales upwards; leaf blades are thick leathery, broadly ovate, 15-25cm long, about 20cm wide, odd-pinnate, with the terminal pinna longer than wide, short and gradually pointed; lateral pinnae are 3-5 pairs, opposite, spreading obliquely upwards, 4-5cm long, 2.5-3cm wide in the middle, ovate to oblong, with sharp apex, nearly cordate base, entire margin, only the rachis is covered with very few fibrous scales; leaf veins are not obvious, with several rows of small meshes on each side of the midrib. The sori are small, brown and round; the sori cap is large and nearly entire.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing under forests or on rocks on hillsides at an altitude of 350-1500m.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter; Cold

【Meridian】 Liver; Spleen

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and detoxifies; kills insects. Mainly used for fever in children; ascariasis

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

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": Rhizome: used for high fever in children.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

After understanding some of the effects and common knowledge of Thick-leaved Coptis chinensis, I hope everyone can use scientific methods in the process of consumption to make it play a greater role.