yellow weasel

yellow weasel

(Guizhou folk medicine)

[synonym] green fern (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the whole plant of pteridiaceae.

[plant morphology] Dryopteris tumefaciens

Perennial herbs, 20-60m high. Rhizomes long and well packed, densely covered with linear lanceolate brown scales. The leaf blade is oval pentagonal, 10-25 cm long, 10-25 cm long, 10-25 cm long, 4-lobed in width and length; the pinnae are petiolate, with the largest pair at the base; the small pinnules on the lower side of the feather axis are larger than those on the upper side; the terminal lobes are round, entire or undulate, and the lateral veins on the lobes are single. The sporangia are large, in the middle of lateral veins; the sporangia are large, round kidney shaped or horseshoe shaped, densely pilose.

On limestone or brick walls. It is distributed all over the south of the Yangtze River.

[collection] all year round.

[nature and taste] Guizhou folk medicine: "the nature is cool, the taste is bitter and astringent, and there are small poisons. "

[function indications] it is used to treat dysentery, yellow water sores, knife wounds and bleeding.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "clearing fire, removing poison, stopping bleeding, promoting muscle. It can cure sore poison and bleeding from knife wound. "

② "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "whole plant, cure red and white dysentery. "

[selected formula] ① treatment of sore poison: fresh leaves and stems of Weasel, and mash the affected part. (Guizhou folk medicine)

② Treatment of wound bleeding or yellow water sores: fresh weasel root scales, apply to the affected area. (Guizhou folk medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Huang Shu Lang