Adiantum flagelliforme

Adiantum flagelliforme

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[synonym] rock lice (Guizhou herbal medicine), Adiantum caudate, and Dragon (Chinese higher plant Atlas).

[source] the whole plant of Adiantum flagelliforme.

[plant morphology] Adiantum flagelliforme

Perennial herbs, 15-36 cm high. The rhizome is erect with dark chestnut lanceolate scales at the top. The leaves are clustered, papery, with sparse multicellular long bristles on both sides; the petioles are chestnut, with dense hairs, and the rachis is occasionally with sparse hairs; the leaves are linear lanceolate, 10-30 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, the lower part is pinnate, the top of the rachis usually extended into flagellum, and the top of the rachis takes root; the pinnae are diagonal rectangular or sub triangular, only the upper edge is deeply split into many narrow lobes; the veins are fan-shaped Fork. Sporangia are found under the cover of metamorphosed and reflexed sporangia from the top of lobes; the cover of sporangia is reniform to round reniform, slightly hairy.

Under the forest or in the valley. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[flavor] bitter, slightly sweet, flat.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, promoting diuresis and detumescence.

[formula selection] ① treatment of edema: two pairs of rock lice, simmer water.

② Treatment of breast carbuncle, yellow water sores: rock lice research at the end of the application of the affected area. (the following is Guizhou herbal medicine)