Phoenix egg is also called Phoenix egg, and some people call it Pteris vittata. It is a widely used herbal medicine, and its main function is to clear away heat and promote diuresis. In addition, it also has the function of softening and resolving food stagnation. For example, when a cold occurs, people's bodies often have fever and are easily accompanied by cough symptoms. At this time, Phoenix egg can be used to help with treatment. In addition, Phoenix egg has many benefits as follows.

First, the efficacy and function of phoenix eggs.

Clear away heat, promote diuresis, reduce swelling and detoxify. Treat jaundice, stranguria, painful urination, dysentery, hernia, breast abscess, scrofula, scald and knife wound.

① Guizhou Folk Medicine: "Clearing away heat. Treat knife wounds, hematemesis, stranguria and infertility. "

② Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Treating breast abscess and postpartum breast swelling."

(3) Quanzhou Materia Medica: "Clearing away heat and toxic materials and facilitating urination. Treat damp-heat jaundice, dysuria, nausea, diaphragmatic obstruction and hernia. "

④ New Selection of Practical Chinese Herbal Medicine in Guangxi: "Treating cough caused by lung heat, centipede bite, fire injury caused by soup, malnutrition in children and tuberculosis of lymph glands."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 2 ~ 5 yuan (fresh1~ 2 Liang). External use: tamping.

Second, the nutritional value of phoenix eggs.

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Alias round fern, Pteris vittata, Bizi grass, Yellowstone bark, swan egg, stone egg fruit, snake egg ginseng, phoenix egg and horse egg.

It comes from Nephrolepiscordifolia(L.)Presl, a plant of Nephropteris of Drynaceae, and is used as a whole herb or tuber. It can be collected all year round, washed, dried or used fresh.

Sexual taste is sweet, light, slightly astringent and cool.

Functions: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, calming lung and relieving cough, softening hard mass and resolving food stagnation. Used for common cold, fever, cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, dysentery, acute enteritis, infantile malnutrition, toxic dyspepsia and urinary infection; Externally used for treating mastitis and lymphadenitis.

Usage and dosage: 0.5 ~12 for tuber or whole grass; Appropriate amount is applied externally, and fresh tubers or whole grass are pounded and applied to the affected area.

Third, the eating method of phoenix eggs.

Phoenix egg picture

① Treatment of stranguria, dribbling urine and unbearable pain: centipede fern (for dry use) five dollars, 21 fir tips, Prunella vulgaris five dollars, and wild radish four dollars. Boil water and eat white sugar. (Guizhou Folk Medicine)

② Treatment of knife wound: the tender leaves of centipede fern are pounded. (Guizhou Folk Medicine)

③ Treatment of breast swelling and pain: tender stems and leaves of kidney fern are pounded with velvet. (Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

④ Treatment of damp-heat jaundice: five yuan to one or two yuan for dried whole grass. Decoct with water.

⑤ Treatment of choking, diaphragmatic nausea: grind the whole herb of Rumex rotundus into the end of San Qian. Take it with wine three times a day.

6 cure long-term dysentery: three or two fresh leaves of round fern. Mash, add rice swill and mix well to get juice. (④ Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine is listed below)