Baoshulian

Baoshulian

(notes on the nature of sound herbs)

[synonyms] qiaogenteng and feiliancao (Lingnan medicine collection record), baoshulian (flora of Guangzhou), baoshilian and guazicai (Handbook of common Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Air Force).

[source] it is the whole plant of Polypodiaceae.

[plant morphology] baoshulian

Perennial epiphytic herbs. Rhizome slender, creeping; scales dense, small, ovate, edge tearing. The vegetative leaves are round, obovate or elliptic, 1-5cm long and 1-2cm wide, nearly sessile or with short petioles, rounded at the apex, somewhat obliquely truncated or wedge-shaped at the base, entire, thick fleshy, leathery when dry, sparsely covered with stellate hairs; the sporophylls are linear, 5-10cm long or longer, 3-8mm wide, blunt at the apex, The base is narrower, the vein is not obvious, visible under strong light, connected, with single or branched veinlets. Sporangia nearly stellate when linear; abaxial margin of sporangia nearly oblate, covered with a few hairs.

It grows on trees. It is distributed in the south of China.

[nature and taste] Guangzhou Air Force's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "it tastes sweet and light, and its nature is slightly cool. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing dampness, detoxifying and killing insects. Treatment of jaundice, rheumatism, pain, mumps, lymph node tuberculosis, scabies, traumatic injury.

① "To cure scabies and scabies, to kill insects" is one of the most important contents of the book. "

② "Lingnan medicine collection record": "decocting treatment of eye heat, traumatic injury and blood stasis pain. "

③ Guangzhou Air Force "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "anti inflammatory detoxification, Qufeng cough. Treatment of jaundice, lymph node tuberculosis, mumps, cough, hemoptysis, rheumatism, bone pain, breast cancer, stool dry knot. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: fried, washed or tamped.