[Variety Source]
This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Dryopteridaceae, Shield-fern Rhizome (Cyrtomium frtunei J.Sm.), male fern rhizome (Dryopteriscrassirhizoma Nakai ), rhizome with petiole base of Osmunda japonica (Osmunda japonica Thunb Thunb.), etc. Shield-fern Rhizome is mainly produced in North China, Northwest China, and south of the Yangtze River; Shield-fern Rhizome is mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places; Shield-fern Rhizome is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Henan and other places. Excavate in autumn, wash, remove petioles and fibrous roots, and dry in the sun. Slice and serve raw or stir-frying to scorch.
[Property]
bitter, slightly cold. slightly toxic. act on liver and spleen channels.
[Efficacy]
clearing heat and removing toxin, killing worms, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
[Indications]
- Used for common cold, warm febrile disease, spots, and mumps. This product is bitter and cold, and can clear the blood and heat toxin. Used alone or combined with Mulberry Leaf to treat common cold, and has preventive effect; used to treat measles, mumps, Japanese encephalitis, etc., often combined with Isatis Root Dyers Woad leaves and Arnebia are equally useful and have the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and resolving macula.
- It is used for various intestinal Chinese Taxillus Herb diseases such as tapeworm, hookworm, and roundworm. This product has the effect of killing worms. Benjing said it "kills three worms" and Bielu said it "removes white spots". To drive away tapeworms, it is often used with Areca Seed and Thunder Ball; to treat hookworm disease, it is often used with Grand Torreya Seed, Areca Seed can be used as the same; to treat abdominal pain caused by roundworm accumulation, it is often used with Quisqualis Fruit and neem root bark; to treat pinworms, this product can be decoctioned alone , wash around the anus before going to bed.
- Used for blood heat hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, etc. This product has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is especially good at treating metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. It is suitable for those with blood heat. It can be used alone, such as Bencao Tujing to treat epistaxis, grind it into powder and mix it for administration; to treat vomiting, bloody stool, etc., it can also be used with Platycladus, lalang grass rhizome is used equally; to treat metrorrhagia and metrostaxis bleeding, it is often used with Trogopterus Dung and other combinations of medicinals. If it is a failure of qi to control blood, it is used with Astragalus Root, Chinese Angelica, Donkey-hide Gelatin, etc., can nourish blood and stop bleeding by tonifying qi. In addition, this product can also be used to treat burns, leukorrhea, hypertension, dizziness, vertigo, etc.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "It controls the evil heat and poisons in the abdomen and kills three insects."
- Bielu: "Removes the white spots and breaks the emblems." , remove head wind and stop incised wounds."
- Bencao Gangmu: "Cure hemorrhage, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, postpartum distending pain, macula and papule, lacquer sore, bone congestion."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take 10-15g. Killing worms and clearing heat and removing toxin are suitable for raw use; to stop bleeding, stir-frying to scorch is suitable.
[Precaution]
Male fern rhizome is toxic and should not be used in excessive amounts. Use with caution if you are deficient-cold of spleen and stomach.
[Modern Pharmacology]
Dryopteris mainly contains Northeastern Shield-fern Rhizome, trigeminin, Northeastern Shield-fern Rhizome alcohol, fernic acid, fragrant acid, fernol, etc.; Asteroptera mainly contains glassosterone-A and ecdysterone. . Shield-fern Rhizome has an inhibitory effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, influenza virus, mumps virus, etc.; rhizome acid and rhizome acid have strong anthelmintic effects and are highly toxic to tapeworms, which can paralyze and expel tapeworms. japanese flowering fern rhizome can repel hookworms, roundworms, whipworms, etc. Shield-fern Rhizome has a strong contractile effect on isolated uterus.