Water fern

Water fern

(compendium)

[synonym] Qin (Lu's spring and Autumn Annals), Gracilaria lemaneiformis (a textual research on the names and facts of plants), Longya grass, shuisongcao, shuitieshu, shuibianbai (a list of medicinal plants in Guangxi).

[source] it is the whole plant of aquilariaceae.

Water fern morphology

-Annual aquatic herb, 30-80 cm high, green, juicy. The rhizome is short and erect, fixed in the mud by fibrous roots. Leaves 2-type, glabrous, sterile leaves 10-40 cm long, cylindrical, fleshy, erect or floating, narrowly oblong, 10-30 cm long, 5-15 cm wide, 2-4 deep feathering, terminal lobes lanceolate, about 6 mm wide; fertile leaves larger, oblong or ovate triangular, 15-40 cm long, 10-22 cm wide, 2-3 deep feathering, terminal lobes strip, pod shaped , about 2 mm wide. The margin is thin and transparent, reaching the main vein inversely. The veinlets on both sides of the main vein are connected to form a net, without veinlets. The sporangia are sparse, brown, covered by involute leaf margin when young, and more or less open when mature.

In the mud of a pond, paddy field, or ditch. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui.

[nature and taste] 1. In the Compendium: "sweet and bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

② Thousands of herbs in South China: "sweet, light, cool. "

Functions and indications: promoting blood circulation and detoxification. Treatment of swelling, dysentery, fetal toxicity, traumatic injury.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "treat Dieda, disperse poison. "

② Flora of Hainan: "the stem and leaf can cure the fetal poison and eliminate the accumulation of phlegm. "

③ Thousands of herbs in South China: "detoxification, hemostasis, dysentery, cough. "

[selected formula] for abdominal distention: water fern, light cooking. I'm going to do evil things. Avoid miscellaneous food, more than a month is good. (health prescription)