Iron fern chicken

Iron fern chicken

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

Sanxuelian.

[source] it is the rhizome of Pteridium multiflorum.

[plant morphology] Pteridium polyphyllum

Perennial herbs. Rhizome transverse, sparsely covered with brown scales. Petiole distant, 30-50 cm long, yellowish green, smooth, glabrous, base sparsely scaly; odd pinnate compound leaf, 30-50 cm long; pinnae about 13 pairs, alternate, linear, 15-18 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, apex caudate, base broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrate, glandular wart spots below, lateral veins parallel, 5-7 pairs of veinlets between two sides. The sporangia are round, separated and without sporangia cover. It is nephroid and biphasic.

Born in the shade of mountains. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

Cold in nature and bitter in taste.

Functions and indications: Tongjing, Huoluo, Liqi, Lishi.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of labor injury: five for tiexianji, five for yanfangfeng, five for chuxuewang, three for leigonggao, three for jianxuefei, and three for yansang. Make wine and take it twice a day for five to one or two yuan each time.

② Treatment of stomach pain: Iron fern chicken, chuanxiong, climbing rock incense each equal amount. Swallow it carefully, one money at a time, or simmer it in water.

③ Cure dysentery: Iron fern chicken, turn white grass each three money. Simmer water clothes.

④ Irregular menstruation: Iron fern chicken, blood King each five money. Simmer water clothes.