Centipede orchid

Centipede orchid

(Jinhua, selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)

[synonym] stone centipede, dog tooth BanZhi, tooth tooth Banzhilian (Jinhua "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine prescription selection"), jinbaijiao, Baijiao centipede, Feitian centipede, centipede grass, cypress orchid (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs ").

[source] it is the whole plant of Pteris vittata.

[plant morphology] centipede orchid

Perennial evergreen herbs. The stem is slender and creeping, many nodes and hard, with sparsely strip-shaped air roots at the branches. Leaves alternate, leathery, sparsely arranged in 2 rows, linear lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, leaf sheath short, connate with stem. The flowers are small, light red, solitary, with short stalks opposite to the leaves, 1-2 triangular bracts; sepals spoon shaped, oblong, obtuse; petals isomorphic and shorter, with a cellular spur on the back of the labellum, middle lobe triangular, ovate, entire, acute. Capsule long obovate. It blooms in early summer.

Epiphytic to rocks or bark. It is distributed in Zhejiang and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, fresh or dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] 1. In Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "cold.". "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "cool in nature, slightly bitter in taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying and stopping bleeding. For stomatitis, paranasal sinusitis, tracheitis, hemoptysis, pyelonephritis.

① "Cool and detoxify, treat stomatitis" in Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "clearing away heat and toxin, moistening lung and stopping bleeding. "

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

[prescription selection] ① for infantile convulsion: fresh centipede orchid for five to one or two yuan. Take it in water.

② Treatment of tracheitis, hemoptysis: Centipede orchid five money. Stew with rock sugar.

③ Treatment of chronic paranasal inflammation: Centipede orchid one or two. Fried in water and served with yellow rice wine.

④ Cure pyelonephritis: fresh centipede orchid one or two. Take it in water. (selected out "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs")