Fernweed

("Plant Names and Facts Illustrated Research")

Synonymous with wellhead edge grass ("Compendium of Materia Medica"), Little Venus Fengwei, Tiejiaoji ("Lvyanyan Materia Medica"), pheasant tail, Jingqian ("Preparations for the Properties of Herbal Medicines"), Jinglancao, Shi Changsheng ("Illustrated Research on Plant Names and Facts"), Phoenix Grass ("Classification of Herbal Properties") 》), Akane Jingbian ("Lingnan Medicinal Plants"), chicken head and capon tail ("Chinese Medicinal Plants"), phoenix tail fern, pheasant tail ("Guangxi Chinese Veterinary Medicinal Plants"), green fern ( "Luchuan Materia Medica"), chicken foot grass ("Nanning Drug Chronicles"), centipede grass, asparagus grass ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine"), golden cocktail, wax kidney grass ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicle"), centipede root grass ("Illustrated Book of Chinese Medicinal Plants"), Golden Chicken Claws, Jingkou Chicken Glue Tongue ("Eastern Fujian Materia Medica"), Jinglan Acanthus, Microphylla sibirica ("Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" II), Xiaofengwei (Guangzhou Air Force's "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual") 》).

The source is the whole grass or root of the fern family plant Pterisaceae.

Plant form: Brassica sibirica, also known as: Brassica tenuifolia.

Perennial herb, 30-70 cm tall. The underground stems are thick and densely covered with linear lanceolate dark brown scales. The leaves are clustered, the petiole is 5-23 cm long, gray-brown or straw color, hairless; the sporophyll of the sporangia has 2 pinnate divisions, green above and light green below, with broad wings on the central axis and 3-7 pinnae. Yes, the opposite is close to the opposite. The upper pinnae is sessile, undivided, apex acuminate, long linear, entire edge, the top pinnae is the longest, the lower pinnae is stalked, the pinnae is split or has 1 to 2 lobes at the base, and those with split pinnae have There are several small pinnae, long and linear, and the small pinnae also extend down to form wings on the leaf axis. The leaf veins are obvious, and the fine veins are pinnately branched from the midrib. They have single or bifurcated branches reaching the edge; vegetative leaves without sporangia. Smaller, 2 small pinnae are wider, linear or oval, with serrated edges. The sporangium group is linear and grows along the lower edge of the sporophyll pinnae. The sporangia group cap slightly extends beyond the leaf edge and is membranous.

Grows in semi-humid rocks and crevices in corners. Distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

Collection can be done all year round.

Its nature and flavor are light and slightly bitter, and cold in nature.

① "Properties of Raw Herbal Medicines": "Spicy in taste, neutral in nature."

② "Classification of Properties of Herbal Medicines": "Cold in nature, non-toxic."

③"Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": "Salty, cold, slightly poisonous."

④"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sour, bitter, cold."

⑤Guangzhou Troops "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Sweet, slightly bitter, cold."

Meridian Return ① "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "Enter the kidney and stomach meridians."

② "Mindong Materia Medica" : "Enter the large intestine, kidney, heart and liver meridians."

Functions: Clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Treat jaundice hepatitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, stranguria, vaginal discharge, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, tonsillitis, mumps, carbuncle sores, and eczema.

① "The Preparation of Herbal Medicines": "Cleans malnutrition, treats hemorrhoids, disperses poison, and applies sores." "Cure snake bite poisons, knife wounds, can stop bleeding and promote muscle growth, grind juice to make wine Take it and apply it to the affected area. Grind it and store it to treat gas pain. "

②"Lingnan Medicine Collection": "Dry it into powder to treat gas pain and heat pain."

③"An Illustrated Study of Plant Names and Facts": "Cure five types of stranguria and relieve painful urination."

④"Classification of Herbal Medicine Properties": "Cure all heat toxins, reduce swelling, clear fire. Treat carbuncle, breast ulcers Carbuncle, gonorrhea. "

⑤ "Chinese Medicinal Plants": "Antidiarrhea" ⑥ "Guizhou Folk Prescriptions": "Antipyretic and diuretic. Wind, crying at night. "

⑦ "Guangxi Medical Plants": "Clear large intestine and lung heat. Treat heat dysentery and toothache, and stop vomiting blood." "Illustrated Book of Medicinal Plants": "Cure scabies."

⑨"Quanzhou Materia Medica": "Cure damp and hot urination, bloody, sore throat."

⑩"Hunan Drug Chronicles" ": "Cure malnutrition, colds, and eye nebula."

⑾Guangzhou Army's "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual": "Clear heat, diuresis, and cool blood. Treat bacillary dysentery, enteritis, exogenous fever, and urinary tract infection , leucorrhea, mumps, boils, eczema "

⑿ "Jiangxi Herbal Medicine": "Cure scrofula, epistaxis, and bloody stools.

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⒀"Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Cure jaundice hepatitis, tonsillitis, spermatorrhea, and pinworms." "

Usage and dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 3 to 6 qian (1 to 2 taels of fresh product); grind into powder or pound into juice to drink. External use: pound for application or decoct and wash with water.

It is advisable not to take it if you have symptoms of deficiency and cold. ① "Luxianyan Materia Medica": "The elderly should not take it too much, as it is cold in nature. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "It should not be taken by pregnant women, cold dysentery, and resting dysentery. "

Selection of prescriptions ① Treatment of febrile red dysentery: five parts of fern, one part of maidenhair fern, and one part of seaweed. Stir-fry black, decoct in water and take. ("Guangxi Medicinal Plant Map")

②Treatment of dysentery: 2 to 3 liang of fresh ferngrass, decoction or juice, three doses per day ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine") ③Treatment of acute hepatitis: Take 3 liang of fresh phoenix grass as juice, three doses a day, a five-day course of treatment ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine") ④Treatment of urinary tract inflammation and hematuria: 2 to 4 doses of fresh phoenix grass. 2, decoction in water (Guangzhou Air Force's "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual")

⑤Treatment of hot stranguria and bloody stranguria: 7 qian to 1 liang of phoenix grass. ) decoct and take it ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine")

⑥ To treat leucorrhea and white turbidity: 2 to 3 qian of Phoenixweed, 3 qian each of Plantain and White Cockscomb, and Bianzhucao. , Mirengen and Guanzhong each have 5 qian each. Decoction them together ("Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine") ⑦ Treat metrorrhagia: Chop one or two fennel grass and decoct half of it with water and wine. ("Kuangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine")

⑧Treatment of epistaxis: 7 qian to 1 liang of kelp and 1 liang of kelp (washed) ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine")

⑨Treat blood in the stool: 7 qian to 1 tael of ferngrass. Stew with pig intestine to remove residue, eat the intestines and soup ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine")

⑩Treat lung heat. Cough: 1 tael of fresh phoenix grass. Wash and decoct into honey.

⑾ Treat sore throat: Wash 5 or 6 qian of fresh phoenix grass. , add a little brown sugar and take it twice a day.

⑿ To treat oral ulcers in children: Wash 2 to 3 qian of fresh fern, add a little bit of honey and cinnabar and take it orally. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

⒀Treatment of woolly boils: one or two pieces of fresh phoenix grass, pound the juice and take it; or dry it and grind it into powder, take three qian each time, mix it with warm water and add ginger. Take the juice. ("Hengshan Folk Herbal Medicine")

⒁To treat the five poisons on the back: wash the tail and roots of the small Venus phoenix, dry them over slow fire, weigh 4 liang, add 1 penny of raw licorice. Divide into four servings, boil three or two liters of wine each time, mix with three or two liters of cold wine, seal in a bottle, and drink from time to time. Avoid cold, greasy and poisonous substances. )

⒂Treatment of burns with decoction: Phoenicopterus, roasted and ground into powder, mixed with sesame oil for application ("Hunan Medicine Chronicle")

⒃Treatment of rabid dog bites: Pterisopteris II. 2, decoct in water and take; or mash and apply externally ("Hunan Medicine Chronicle")

1. Treat phosphorus poisoning (also suitable for opium, arsenic, and toadstool poisoning): 4 liang of Fernweed (fresh). . Chop it into a bowl of spring water and drink it. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine")

⒅Cure urticaria: decoct it with a little salt. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine")< /p>

⒆Treatment of facial nerve paralysis: three qian of fenugreek root decoction in water ("Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine")

⒇Treatment of baldness: Dip the root of fenugreek root in oil and apply it on the head. ("Lu Yanyan Materia Medica")

Clinical Application ①Treatment of acute bacillary dysentery

Adults take 25 to 30 grams of the whole plant every day (up to 2 or 2 children can drink less), add 200 grams of water ~250 ml, fry until it is about 100 ml, add sugar and take 3 times. After treatment of 80 cases, most of them had fever subsided within 2 to 7 days, abdominal pain and tenesmus disappeared, the frequency and nature of stools returned to normal, and stool cultures turned negative. At the same time of oral administration, you can also add a decoction for preservation***.

②Treatment of infectious hepatitis

Take fresh grass and make a 100% decoction, add sugar when taking it. For adults, take 100 to 150 ml of hay every day, divided into 2 to 3 times for 1 week. 143 cases were treated with vitamin B1 and C. As a result, except for 1 case of recurrence and 20 cases of significant improvement, all were cured.

③Treatment of typhoid fever

Take Trichosanthes tenuifolia (dry product), 4 taels per day for adults (less for children), add 2500 ml of water, boil into 750 ml, take it for the first time 150 ml, then 60 ml every 2 hours. Five cases were treated (2 mild cases, 1 medium case, and 2 severe cases), 4 cases were cured, and 1 severe case had persistent fever and was cured with synmycin.

④Treatment of biliary tract diseases

Take 3 taels of ferns, add sugar and decoct. Clinical trials were conducted on 5 cases of cholecystitis, gallstones and other complications complicated by biliary bleeding. After taking 6 to 8 doses of the drug, 4 cases were controlled and 1 case was ineffective. It can also be used for biliary bleeding caused by infection.

In addition, it has been reported that 2 taels each of phoenix grass and bayberry, and 1 sunflower disk were used to decoct the food to treat 1 case of chorioepithelial carcinoma and malignant hydatidiform mole. The results were unexpected and worth exploring. . Reminder: This Chinese herbal medicine is sourced from the Internet. Please follow your doctor's advice before use.