Adiantum alatum

Adiantum alatum

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] bristle grass, bristle seven (Guizhou herbal medicine).

[source] the whole plant of Adiantum clivum.

[plant morphology] Adiantum crenatum

Perennial herbs, 10-20 cm high. The rhizome is erect with brown lanceolate scales at the top. Leaves clustered, submembranous, glabrous, petiole slender, bright chestnut, with scales at the base; leaves lanceolate, 8-15 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, once pinnate, the top of rachis often extended into flagellum, and the top of rachis rooting; pinnae fan-shaped, with joints connected with stalk at the base, and outer edge 2-5-lobed; sporangia group at the top of lobes, margin entire, but margin of sterile part shallow The leaf veins are fan-shaped and bifurcated, the venules reach to the leaf margin, the top of the venules at the margin of the sporangium lobes, and the cysts are oblong or subreniform.

In wet limestone footings or cracks in walls. It is distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Gansu, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and Taiwan.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guizhou herbal medicine: "cool in nature, slightly bitter in taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and diuresis, promoting blood circulation and dredging the lymph. It can cure dysentery, bloody drenching, urination, cough, pain, mastitis and rash.

① Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing heat and diuresis, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, tonifying kidney and relieving cough. "

② "Atlas of Chinese higher plants": "treat dysentery, cervical lymph node tuberculosis, snakebite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Cough treatment: Bristle grass and plantain grass, one or two each, simmer and take with water.

② Treatment of labor pain: bristles one or two, wine service.

③ Treatment of spermatorrhea: Bristle grass root one or two, wine service.

④ Treatment of blood drenching: bristles one or two, simmer water service.

⑤ Cure amenorrhea: Bristle grass five money, wind tail grass one or two, simmer water service.

⑥ Treatment of mastitis: Bristle grass five money, simmer water clothing; another one or two pound velvet applied to the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine was selected)