There are many plant medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, which are relatively common. We may often see them in our daily life, but we may not know that they actually have medicinal value. For example, Pteris multifida is one of them. Pteris multifida is a common plant. So what are the specific effects and functions of Pteris multifida and its medicinal value?

1, introduction of Pteris multifida

Pteris multifida, the medicinal part is the whole grass or root of Pteris multifida. It can be harvested, washed, fresh or dried in all seasons.

Dozza goods are packaged in small packages. The whole grass is 25-70 cm long. The rhizome is short and brown, with tufted fibrous roots below and tufted leaves above. The petiole is thin, angular, brown or yellow-green, 4-30 cm long, easily broken, grasslike, once pinnate, gray-green or yellow-green; The pinnae of sterile leaves is 4-8cm, and the edge has irregular serrations. Fertile leaves are long, 3-6cm wide, and the edges are rolled back. Spores are born on the lower edge of the feather. A slight breath, a light or astringent taste.

2. The efficacy of Pteris multifida

Clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood to stop bleeding, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Can be used for treating jaundice hepatitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, stranguria, leukorrhagia, hematemesis, nosebleed, bloody stool, hematuria, tonsillitis, parotitis, carbuncle, abscess and eczema.

1, "Classified Medicinal Materials": "Treat all kinds of heat toxin, reduce swelling and clear fire. Treat carbuncle, breast carbuncle and stranguria. "

2. Flora of Chinese Medicinal Plants: "Stop diarrhea."

3, "Guizhou folk prescription drug collection": "antipyretic, diuretic. Treat convulsions in children and cry at night. "

4. Records of Guangxi medicinal plants: "Clearing large intestine and lung heat. Treat toothache due to heat dysentery and stop vomiting blood. "

5. Illustration of Chinese Medicinal Plants: "Treating scabies."

6, "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "Treating wet and hot urinary tract obstruction, bloody stranguria, sore throat."

7. Hunan Pharmacology: "Treating malnutrition, cold and blindness."

8. Handbook of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in Guangjun: "Clearing heat, promoting diuresis and cooling blood". Treat bacillary dysentery, enteritis, exogenous fever, urinary tract infection, leucorrhea, parotitis, furuncle and eczema. "

9. Jiangxi Materia Medica: "Treating scrofula, epistaxis and hematochezia."

10, a common Chinese medicine in Shanghai: "Treating jaundice hepatitis, tonsillitis, nocturnal emission and pinworm disease."

3. Medicinal value of Pteris multifida.

1, for dysentery: two to three ounces of fresh Pteris multifida. Take decoction or juice, three doses a day. (Jiangxi herbs)

2, treatment of urinary tract inflammation, hematuria: two to four fresh Pteris, decoction. (Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine Commonly Used by Guangzhou Air Force)

3, treatment of uterine bleeding: Pteris one or two. Chop, and decoct with water and wine. (mineral western medicine Chinese herbal medicine)

4, treatment of epistaxis: Pteris seven money one or two, kelp one or two (washed). Decoct with water. (Jiangxi folk herbs)

Treatment of hematochezia: Pteris formosana is seven yuan and one liang. Stew with pig intestines, remove dregs, eat intestines and drink soup. (Jiangxi folk herbs)

6. Treatment of facial paralysis: Pteris San Qian. Decoct with water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

7, treatment of baldness: Little Venus Phoenix roots, soaked in oil. (Lu _ Yan Herbal Medicine)

8, treatment of soup fire injury: Pteris multifida, baked and ground, sesame oil conditioning. (Hunan Pharmacology)

9. Treatment of rabies bites: Pteris Pteris, decocted in water; Or mashed and applied externally. (Hunan Pharmacology)

10, cure urticaria: proper amount of wind tail grass and a little salt. Rinse with water. (Jiangxi herbs)

4. Usage and dosage of Pteris multifida

For oral administration: decocted, 3 ~ 6 yuan (fresh 1 ~ 2 Liang); Grind or mash the juice for drinking. External use: pounding or decocting in water.

5. Side effects of Pteris multifida

Avoid taking it due to deficiency-cold syndrome.

1, "Lu Herbal Medicine": "Old people should not take more because of their cold."

2, "Mindong Materia Medica": "Pregnant women, cold dysentery, dysentery should not be taken."

6. Function indication

Dysentery; Diarrhea; Leaching turbidity; Take it down; Jaundice; Furuncle and swelling poison; Laryngeal moth; Lymph node nucleus; Mumps; Mastitis; High fever convulsion; Snakes and insects bite; Hematemesis; Bleeding; Urinating blood; Bloody stool; Traumatic bleeding.