The efficacy and function of dried fern chicken

Dried fern chicken is a common Chinese medicine in clinical practice and has high health value. For people with poor physical constitution, eating dried fern chicken can greatly improve their health. Today I will introduce dried fern chicken to you.

【Alias】 Golden Cocktail

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of Selaginella xerophylla of the Selaginellaceae family.

[Original form] Perennial herb. The main stem is long and creeping, densely covered with gray-brown to brown scaly leaves, with a gray-white root receptacle below and sparse branches upward; the lower part is long-stalked and unbranched; the upper part is branched three to four times, the branches are upright or obliquely ascending, 5-28cm high. The leaves on the main stem and base of old branches are broadly ovate, with grayish white edges, membranous, and irregularly serrated; the upper part of the leaf back is ridged and spirally alternate; the nutrient leaves on the twigs are dimorphic; the lateral leaves are obliquely ovate, 1-1.3mm long, 0.7-0.9mm wide, with a thorny tip, a cuneate base, a thick outer edge, entire, a thin inner edge with fine serrations; the middle leaf is long ovate, 1.5-2.5mm long, about 0.6mm wide, acuminate at the tip, and entire. Sporangium spikes grow at the top of twigs, quadrangular prism-shaped, 5-15mm long, 1-1.5mm wide; sporangium spikes are in 4 rows, densely imbricately arranged, triangular-ovate to broadly ovate, about 2mm long, 1.3mm wide, with a raised back in the middle, a pointed thorn at the apex, a broad membranous margin, and irregular small serrations. The megasporangia and microsporangia are arranged in 2 longitudinal rows each.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown on rocks in arid hillsides.

【Nature and flavor】 Spicy; astringent; cool

【Functions and indications】 Disperses blood stasis and relieves pain; cools blood and stops bleeding. Mainly used for traumatic injury; blood stasis pain; blood in stool; blood in urine; uterine bleeding

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

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is a brief introduction to the effects of dried fern chicken. I hope it can help all friends. In general, the health-preserving effects of dried fern chicken are very powerful. Therefore, dried fern chicken can be used in daily life to better promote physical health.