The efficacy and function of black fern

Many people are not very clear about blackheart fern, so when choosing blackheart fern, you need to understand it so that you can feel at ease when eating it, which is beneficial for disease treatment.

【English name】 Concolorous Doryoteris

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of the Chinese fern family.

[Original form] Terrestrial fern, plant height 20-35cm. The rhizome is short and thin, nearly erect, covered with lanceolate scales, light brown, and with a thick chestnut-black midrib in the center. Leaves are papery, tufted, and monotypic; petioles, rachises, and pinnae are all bright purple-black, petioles are 6-24cm long, sparsely covered with short brown hairs, nearly smooth at the back, and scaly at the base; leaf blades are nearly pentagonal, nearly equal in length and width, 4-8cm, gradually pointed, base broadly cordate or halberd-shaped, almost three-lobed, the central lobe is broadly rhombic, deeply pinnate-lobed, 3.5-5cm long, 2-4cm wide, base broadly cuneate, extending downward from the rachis, the base pair of pinnae is the largest, pinnate-lobed or shallowly lobed, lateral pinnae are triangular, 3-4.5cm long, 2.5-3.5cm wide, base extending downward and connected to the central broad wing extending downward, the lower base pinnae are particularly long, deeply pinnate-lobed, the second pinnae have coarse teeth, the rest are entire, the upper pinnae are short and entire; leaf veins are pinnate-shaped, and the veinlets are dichotomously branched. The sori are distributed along the edges of the lobes on both sides, with the apex and notch sterile; the sori cap is entire.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown beside forest streams or on the edge of fields at an altitude of 230-800m.

[Chemical composition] The leaves contain 22 (29) -hopene [hop-22 (29) -ene], hydroxyhopane, 6, 22-hopadiol (zeorin), friedelin, fern-9 (11) -ene [fern-9 (11) -ene], and squalene.

【Nature and flavor】 slightly bitter; astringent; cool

[Entry into Meridians] Enters the bladder and liver meridians

【Functions and indications】 Clears heat and promotes diuresis; stops bleeding. Mainly caused by stranguria; bleeding caused by trauma

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 9-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount and grind into powder for application.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": The whole plant: tastes astringent, and is cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and stopping bleeding. Used for urinary tract infection, traumatic bleeding, etc.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Having said so much, we can see that blackheart fern has many uses. It can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. You might as well know more about these, it will be helpful in your life.