Dryopteris vulgaris

Dryopteris vulgaris

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonyms] - Duoyun (Tianbao materia medica), Huayen (botany Dictionary), independent Golden Rooster (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), Artemisia selengensis, Dongcao (collection of common folk herbs), langjixixin (Guiyang folk medicine), beishesheng (Sichuan Chinese medicine records), potianyun, sanxueye (Hunan medicine records), Xiaochunhua, snake disappeared, hanging bamboo good branch, good branch grass（《 The results showed that there were three kinds of herbs in Zhejiang Province, namely, the traditional Chinese medicine of Mindong, the one legged golden pheasant and the Osmanthus fragrans.

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of Dryopteris vulgaris.

[plant morphology] Dryopteris vulgaris

Herbs perennial, more than 20 cm high. The rhizome is stout and fleshy, with many fibrous fleshy roots. The petiole of vegetative leaf is 3-8 cm long, and the leaf is triangular, 8-10 cm long and 10-12 cm wide. It has three pinnate divisions. The lowest pinnate is the largest, with long petiole and long triangle. Each pinnate on it is gradually sessile and lanceolate. The lobes are long ovate to ovate, 0.3-0.5 cm wide, serrate, hairless and thick. The sporophylls are long stalked, 12-22 cassettes long; the sporophylls are conic in shape, 5-10 cm long, 3-4 pinnate branches; the sporophylls are sessile, yellow, arranged in two rows along the inner side of the spikelet, not trapped, and transversely split.

It grows on the grass slope and shrub in the mountain area. It is distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, etc.

[collection] harvest in winter or spring, dig the roots, wash and dry.

[medicinal material] the dried whole grass has thick rhizome, fleshy, grayish brown or tan. The petiole is cherry red with longitudinal lines, and the vegetative petiole is thinner and shorter than the spore petiole. Leaf blade triangular, 3-pinnate. The sporangia are conic and brown. The air is weak and the taste is light.

Produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou and other places.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cool.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "sweet and bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "it is mild in nature, mild in taste and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: calming liver, clearing heat and relieving cough. It is used to treat dizziness, headache, hemoptysis, convulsion, burning eye, eye shadow, sore, swelling and poison.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "treat swelling and toxin, wind heat. "

② "Tianbao Materia Medica": "benefit bladder, treat dizziness and brain pain. "

③ "Guizhou folk medicine collection": "antitussive, but also antipyretic Qufeng, the treatment of cold and hematemesis. "

④ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "dispel liver fire, improve eyesight, dispel Yimo. "

⑤ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can treat kidney deficiency and lung disease, hematemesis, disperse cloud in eyes, treat moon fever, and outsource sore poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang). External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. For heat cough: two to five yuan for a cloud, add white radish and rock sugar. Take it in boiling water. (if there is no white radish, you can take it with rock sugar alone)

② Treatment of deficiency cough: two to five dollars for one cloud. Steamed lean meat.

③ Treatment of pertussis: a cloud, raw pull together, rabbit ear wind each five money. Take the fried water mixed with honey. (1) the following prescription is Guiyang folk herbs.)

④ Treatment of lung heat and hemoptysis: fresh Yin fern, fresh wind tail grass each one or two. Take it with water and rock sugar. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ For the treatment of deficiency and heat on the diaphragm of men and women after hematemesis: Yindi fern, Ziheche (file), Guanzhong (hair removal, soil removal), licorice (fried, file, each half two). Mash and sift roughly. Take three daggers and one cup of water each time. Fry until seven minutes. Remove dross and take warm after eating. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu Di Sheng Tang)

⑥ Treatment of epilepsy: Yin fern three to five money. Fried in water instead of tea. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of infantile convulsion: Yindi fern three money. Fried in water, sooner or later. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

⑧ Cure sore poison wind poison: Yin ground fern two to three money. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑨ Treatment of cloud and mist in eyes: steamed chicken liver with one cloud. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑩ Fire eye: shady fern leaves, thorn leaves, mash juice point eye. (Hunan medical records)

[clinical application] xiaoerxi, a patent medicine made from Dryopteris vulgaris, is injected intramuscularly once a day, 1-2ml each time. It can treat children's upper sensation, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, mumps, mandibular lymphadenitis, etc., and has anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. Most of the patients had fever abatement in 1-4 days. A few of them had vomiting, mental weakness and other reactions.