Sichuan layer grass

Sichuan layer grass

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] xianjiwei (Guangxi medicine plant list), Zhoushan broken rice fern, xifengweicao, fenghuanglu chicken, tiexianlu chicken (Hunan medicine record).

[source] it is the whole plant of Dryopteris capillaris in China.

[plant morphology] Dryopteris capillaris

It is perennial, 20-30 cm high. Rhizomes short, erect, covered with brownish Brown narrowly lanceolate scales. The leaves are tufted; the petioles are 2-5 cm long, brown brown, bright and scaly; 2-pinnate compound leaves, lanceolate, 8-20 cm long, or longer, 1.5-6 cm wide, short acuminate; the pinnae are 10-15 pairs, almost sessile; the lower pinnae are slightly short, the middle pinnae are 1.4 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, oblong triangular, acute or blunt, pinnate, several to the axis, 4-6 lobes, Oblong, crenate, herbaceous, glabrous, but rachis more or less scaly. The sporangia are round, one on each round tooth. The cap of sporangia is formed by retrograde involution of metamorphic leaf margin, membranous and entire.

Born on a wet stone. It is distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, etc.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Hunan Medical Records: "slightly bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] Hunan Medical Records: "stop diarrhea and diuresis; clear away heat and toxin, stop bleeding and disperse blood. For dysentery, pain in urination, weakness in feet, body pain, fever, sore throat, snake bite, carbuncle, furuncle and rash. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Chuan Ceng Cao