Phoenix Tail

Phoenix Tail

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonyms] shuangfengwei and jinjiwei (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet), Fengweicao, dayeyoujingbiancao and Langya (Shaanxi herbal medicine), oujingbiancao and jingbiancao (selected Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan), zamadonlomacheva (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the whole plant of pteridiaceae.

[plant morphology] Pteris pinnatifida

Perennial herbs, 50-100 cm high. Rhizome erect, with strip lanceolate flesh brown scales. The fertile leaves are ovoid, 25-30 cm long and 15-20 cm wide, one pinnate, but the pinnae below the middle are usually bifurcated, sometimes there are 1-2 separated pinnules at the base; the pinnae or pinnules are 15-25 cm long and 6-8 mm wide, strip lanceolate, with sharp serrations at the top; the sterile leaves are of the same type, but the pinnae or pinnules are 1-1 wide 5 cm, margin sharply serrate. The sporangia are linear and distributed continuously along the leaf margin below the top of the pinna. The cover of sporangia is narrow, gray and membranous.

It grows in shady and wet places under the forest or in limestone crevices. It is distributed in most areas south of the Yangtze River, Shaanxi, Tibet and other places.

[collection] all year round. Use fresh or wash, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

Sweet and cool.

① "Tibetan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine" says: "the nature is flat and the taste is sweet. "

② Shaanxi herbal medicine: "it is salty in taste, cold in nature and has little poison. "

③ "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "light, cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing dampness, dispelling wind and detoxifying. Treatment of jaundice hepatitis, diarrhea, edema, cloudy, irregular menstruation, throat moth, soup fire injury.

① Common Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet: "clearing heat and detoxification, dehumidification, hemostasis and muscle regeneration. Treatment of cough, drenching, dysentery, water and fire burns. "

② Shaanxi herbal medicine: "dispelling wind and calming, regulating menstruation and activating blood circulation, detoxifying and detumescence, stopping dysentery and relieving gonorrhea. It is used to treat mouth and eye deviation, snake and dog bite, heat drenching, diarrhea, chest and abdomen pain, irregular menstruation and dry blood tuberculosis. "

③ "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine selection": "heat clearing, diuresis, dehumidification, dysentery. For jaundice hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, tonsillitis, dysentery, urinary tract infection, nephritis and edema. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of swelling and pain caused by snake and rabies bite: fresh Pteris multiflora was pounded into mud paste and applied to the injured area. (Shaanxi herbal medicine)

② Treatment of mouth and eye deviation: Fengweicao Sanqian. Take it in water. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)