Golden chicken tail

Golden chicken tail

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] Fengweicao (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] it is the rhizome or whole grass of Pteridium palmatum.

[plant morphology] Pteris palmata

Perennial herbs, 20-40 cm high. Rhizome oblique, tubular stele, pilose. The leaves are tufted or dense; the petiole is 15-30 cm long, thin, smooth, light rice straw color, the base is sometimes brown, all glabrous; the leaves are finger shaped compound leaves, with 5-7 pinnae, and less than 3 pinnae: the pinnae are long linear, 5-10 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, the ventral midvein is grooved, and the edge of the non SPOROGENIC leaf is serrate; the veins are sparse, obvious, single or forked, and the veins terminate at the apex A little below the edge. The sporangia are gray, wide and continuous.

Born on shady rocks. It is distributed in Southwest China and Gansu Province.

[nature and taste] it is mild and slightly astringent.

[function indications] antipyretic, diuretic.

[selection] 1. To treat children's acute convulsion: the root and stem of golden rooster tail is five yuan. Take it in boiling water.

② Treatment of edema: Golden chicken tail, Acorus calamus, radish, stinky grass root each two money. Boil the gypsum tofu and eat it once in the morning and once in the evening.

③ Treatment of rabies bite: golden rooster tail, bayberry skin, haggard skin each two money, fried water mixed with wine, three times a day, a half cup. (the following is Guizhou folk medicine)

④ Treatment of enteritis, dysentery: Golden chicken tail one to two. Take it by frying. (Guizhou herbal medicine)