Large fern

[ source ] was contained in the" Chinese Journal of plant ecology".
Pinyin name ] [ Dà Má n Qí
English name [ ] Ample Forked Fern
[ alias ] Dayu Dicranopteris dichotoma
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for white families of plant big Dicranopteris dichotoma shoots and pith.
Latin botanical mineral name: Dicranopteris ampla Ching animal et Chiu
Harvest and storage: spring, summer harvest, washed, dried or fresh.
[ ] the original morphology of plant is as high as1.5m. Rhizome creeping, densely rusty yellow hair. Leaves with long stalk, up to 80cm; leaves leathery, glabrous, sparsely, below shows blue ash, rachis three to four back two fork branched, branches of dormant buds with ovate bracts, margin irregularly coarsely toothed, except end back to the branching, the bifurcation of the both sides of1 on the pinnatipartite stipules large pinna; ultimate pinnae lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, long 20-40cm, wide 8-12cm, pinnatipartite of rachis; lobes lanceolate, long 4-10cm, wide 8-10mm, margin entire or undulate; lateral veins each having small veins 5-7. Sori borne each small veins of the upper and lower sides of the base of the bow, the main veins on both sides lined the irregular 2-3line.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 600-1400m sparse forests or thickets.
Resource distribution: located in Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] slightly sweet taste astringent; flat;
[ ] the liver meridian tropism
[ ] detoxification functions; hemostasis. The centipede bites; epistaxis; traumatic bleeding
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g; external : moderate, grinds end apply; or fresh goods trace and apply.
[ ] the treatise" Materia Medica": Xinhua outline shoots and pith: sweet taste, flat. Detoxification hemostatic function. For the centipede bites, epistaxis and traumatic bleeding disorders.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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