Chinese Herb Drynaria

Speaking of the traditional Chinese medicine Drynaria fortunei, I believe many people don’t know what it is. In fact, Drynaria fortunei is a medicinal material with high medicinal value. It can treat low back and leg pain, kidney deficiency, tinnitus and other symptoms, and the effect is very significant. In addition, Drynaria fortunei has a good therapeutic effect and can be used as an ingredient for porridge and soup. So what should we pay attention to when taking the traditional Chinese medicine bone drynbu?

In fact, the Chinese medicine Drynaria is a fern that can be harvested all year round. Generally, after picking it, the mud and sand are washed off, and then it is processed and dried before it can be made. It is effective in nourishing the kidneys and strengthening bones, and treating tendon fractures. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to the Chinese medicine Drynaria.

Chinese Herb Drynaria

Drynaria fortunei, also known as: cliff ginger, rock ginger, climbing ginger, meat-breaking ginger, stone-breaking ginger, flying rat, ox flying dragon, flying wind, and moth grass. This fern belongs to the order Pteridales and family Osteoporaceae. It can be harvested throughout the year, and the sand and mud are removed, and it is dried, or the hair (scales) are burned off. This product is flat and long, mostly curved and branched, with densely covered dark brown to dark brown small scales on the surface, soft like hair, and brown or dark brown if burned by fire. There are raised or sunken circular leaf marks on both sides and the upper surface, and a few have petiole residues and fibrous root residues. It is light, brittle, and easy to break. The cross section is reddish-brown, and the vascular bundles are yellow dots arranged in rings. Odorless, light taste, slightly astringent.

Medicinal value

Practical prescriptions: ① For treating persistent pain in the waist and legs: 50g Drynaria fortunei, 75g cinnamon bark, 1.5g Achyranthes bidentata (remove the seedlings), 100g Areca catechu, 150g Psoralea corylifolia (slightly stir-fried), 100g benzoin (add walnut kernels and pound until cooked). Grind it into powder, add refined honey and benzoin, pound it with a pestle for more than a hundred times, and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 20 pills with warm wine before each meal. ② Treats tinnitus and relieves various pains: Remove the hair from the Drynaria fortunei and cut it into small pieces, mix it with raw honey, steam it from 9:00 to 11:00, dry it quickly, grind it into powder, and eat it with roasted pig kidney on an empty stomach. ③ Treat tinnitus and deafness caused by kidney deficiency, as well as loose teeth and unbearable pain: 200g of Drynaria fortunei, 100g each of Rehmannia glutinosa, Cornus officinalis, and Poria cocos, 100g and 50g of Paeonia suffruticosa root (all fried in wine), and 40g of Alisma orientalis (fried in salt water). Grind them into powder and make pills with honey. Take 25 grams each time, with white soup before meals. ④ Treat toothache: 50-100 grams of fresh oak fern (without hair). Crush it, add water and steam it. Do not use iron utensils to cook. ⑤ For treating wounds, broken bones and unbearable pain: 25g each of Drynaria fortunei (remove the hair and stir-fry with bran until slightly yellow), natural copper (finely grind), tiger tibia (coated with butter and roasted until slightly yellow), and turtle shellfish (coated with butter and roasted until slightly yellow), 50g of myrrh. Grind the above ingredients into powder. Take 5 grams each time, with half a walnut kernel, chew it into pieces, and drink it with a medium cup of warm wine. Take three to four times a day. ⑥ To treat injuries caused by beatings and punches: use half the amount of ginger, regardless of the amount. Mash the above ingredients together and apply to the injured area. Wrap it with a piece of silk and replace it when it dries. ⑦ Bone and tendon repair: 200g Drynaria fortunei, soak in 500g wine, take orally in ten doses, twice a day; dry and grind into powder for external application.

Functions and indications: Nourishes the kidneys and strengthens bones, heals injuries and relieves pain. It is used for low back pain due to kidney deficiency, tinnitus, deafness, loose teeth, falls, sprains, fractures of tendons and bones; it can also be used externally to treat alopecia areata and vitiligo.

Functions and indications: tonifying the kidney, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It is used to treat chronic diarrhea due to kidney deficiency, low back pain, rheumatic pain, toothache, tinnitus, bruises, bone injuries, appendicitis, alopecia areata, and corns. Drynaria fortunei is bitter in taste, warm in nature and non-toxic. It penetrates into the bones and is very effective in repairing broken bones. It can treat pain caused by wind and blood accumulation, and is effective in breaking up blood and stopping bleeding. It is especially good when used together with blood-tonifying medicines, and its effects are truly incredible; when used together with kidney-tonifying medicines, it can strengthen teeth; when used together with blood-loss medicines, it can fill the orifices, and it has the unique effect of not only dispelling wind and setting bones.

Dosage and Administration: For oral administration: decoct in water, 15-25 g; soak in wine or make into pills or powder. For external use: mash and apply.

Medicinal precautions

Patients with yin deficiency and without blood stasis should take with caution. It should not be used together with wind-drying drugs. It is forbidden to use it if one suffers from blood deficiency and wind dryness, blood deficiency and fire, or blood deficiency and cramps. Avoid mutton, sheep blood, and Brassica juncea. "

Clinical Application

1. To prevent and treat streptomycin toxicity and allergic reactions: Take 5 qian of dry Drynaria slices, decoct in water and take in 2 doses, 1 dose per day. It can be taken for a long time as needed. 2. Treatment of corns: Take 3 grams of Drynaria fortunei, grind it into coarse powder, soak it in 100 ml of 95% alcohol for 3 days for later use. When using, first wash the corns or warts on the feet with warm water to soften them, then use a knife to scrape off the thick outer skin; then apply the alcohol extract of Drynaria fortunei once every 2 hours, for 4 to 6 times in a row, up to 10 times a day. There is a slight pain after application, which disappears in a few minutes. 3. For kidney deficiency in the elderly, low back pain and weak legs, take 15 grams of Osmanthus fragrans, 10 grams of Psoralea corylifolia, 10 grams of Achyranthes bidentata, and 10 grams of Viscum album. Take it in decoction, 1 dose per day. It has the function of nourishing the kidney and strengthening bones. 4. Tinnitus and deafness caused by kidney deficiency, or long-term diarrhea due to kidney deficiency: Take an appropriate amount of Drynaria fortunei, grind it into fine powder, take 6 grams each time, put it into pig kidney and simmer it, then eat it. 5. Traumatic injuries: 15-30 grams of Drynaria fortunei. Decoction in water, twice a day. Or use 120 grams of Drynaria fortunei and 500 grams of white wine, soak them together, take them in 10 doses, twice a day; alternatively, use this product and ginger together to mash and apply to the wound. It is very effective for treating chest and rib contusions or tendon injuries and fractures, and is a good remedy for promoting fracture healing. 6. Toothache: 30 grams of Drynaria fortunei (dehaired). Crush it and boil it, or soak it in boiling water and gargle with it. It has a good analgesic effect.

Drynaria dishes

Drynaria Japonica Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 100g polished rice, 12g bone drynaria, 10g dried ginger, 10g aconite

Method: 1. Boil the three medicinal herbs of Drynaria fortunei, Aconite root and dried ginger for about 30 minutes, remove the residue and keep the juice for later use; 2. Wash the polished rice clean; 3. Put the polished rice into the medicinal juice, add appropriate amount of water and cook until it becomes porridge.

Eucommia bone and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of lean pork, 50 grams of Drynaria fortunei, 40 grams of Eucommia ulmoides, 50 grams of cloud ear, and 50 grams of rice wine.

Method: 1. Wash the lean meat and cut into pieces; soak and wash the cloud ear with clean water; wash the Eucommia ulmoides and Drynaria fortunei with clean water respectively and set aside. 2. Put all the above ingredients into a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 3 hours, season and serve.

After reading the above detailed effects and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine Drynaria fortunei, I believe that friends who are relatively unfamiliar with this medicinal material have already had a general understanding. Although the Chinese medicine Drynaria is very effective and can treat a variety of symptoms, when taking this type of medicine, you should be careful not to eat mutton, sheep blood, and Brassica juncea. In addition, patients with blood deficiency should not take it, so everyone should pay attention.