Osmunda japonica

Osmunda japonica

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonym] Miscanthus sibiricus, Miscanthus sibiricus, Pteridium sibiricus, betel louse, Osmunda japonica (Fujian folk herbal medicine), Miscanthus sibiricus (Minnan folk herbal medicine), Osmunda japonica. In this paper, we report the results of the study on the medicinal herbs in Hunan Province.

[source] it is the young leaf or petiole of Dicranopteris japonica.

[plant morphology] Osmunda japonica

Perennial herbs, 30-60 cm high. Rhizomes transverse, slender, brownish brown, covered with brown scales and roots. The leaves are distant, the petioles are brown and glabrous; the leaves are repeatedly pseudobifurcated, and the pinnae (stipules) are inserted at each intersection, and the pinnae are bifurcated at the last fork; the pinnae are lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 20-30 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, apex acuminate, and the pinnae are deeply split; the lobes are long linear, 3.5-5 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, apex acuminate, blunt, and margin dry The leaves are white under the leaves, brown scales on the feather axis and lobe axis; the veinlets bifurcate 2-3 times, 3-4 in each group. There are 6-8 sporangia in the sporangia group.

It grows under forest or on acid soil of hillside. It is distributed all over the south of the Yangtze River.

The rhizome of this plant (Dicranopteris dichotoma) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] all year round.

Bitter and smooth

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "Gan, Ping. "

② "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": "bitter, mild. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation, hemostasis, antipyretic and diuretic. It is used to treat women's band collapse, urethritis, trauma, bleeding and scald.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine: "activating blood stasis to stop bleeding, promoting feces to relieve fever. "

② "Lu Chuan Materia Medica": "hemostasis, muscle, Qi. It is used to treat bleeding, ulceration and hernia. "

③ "Hunan medicine annals:" Ye, mash and apply centipede bite. "

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

[prescription selection] 1. To treat women's blood avalanche: bud or leaf stem core (pith) of Dicranopteris japonica, calcined thoroughly and ground, two to five coins each time and taken with warm wine. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

② For women's leucorrhea: Osmunda stem heart four to five money, longan meat one to two liang, rock sugar one or two. Drink water and stew.

③ Treatment of urethritis, urine astringent pain adverse: Osmunda japonica petiole middle white heart one or two. Take it in water.

④ Treatment of fire injury in soup: burn ash in the stem core of Osmunda japonica, grind the powder, and apply with tung oil. (2) Fujian folk herbal medicine

⑤ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: the buds of Osmunda japonica were mashed and applied. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of hemorrhoids and fistula: mangqi petiole burning, inserted into the fistula, once a day. (Hunan medical records)

⑦ Treatment of rubella and pruritus: fresh Osmunda japonica, fried and washed. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)