As a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, Dicranopteris dichotoma has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, detoxifying, and promoting diuresis. It is often used for colds, tonsillitis, and pharyngitis. Now let's understand the efficacy, function, and verification methods of Dicranopteris dichotoma.
[Methods of consuming Dicranopteris dichotoma]
Dicranopteris dichotoma and Old Duck Soup
Ingredients: 500g of old duck, 3 Dicranopteris dichotoma, appropriate amount of lotus root, 2 Chinese dates, 4 figs, a small amount of apricot kernels, 4 red dates, 1 slice of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.
Method: Clean the old duck and cut it into large pieces. Blanch it in hot water and rinse off the blood residue. Wash the Chinese dates, figs, apricot kernels, and red dates. Wash the Dicranopteris dichotoma and lotus root, and rinse off the dirt.
Put all the ingredients and seasonings of the Dicranopteris dichotoma and old duck soup into a ceramic soup pot, add a slice of ginger, cover the pot, and boil for an hour. Then simmer for another 30 minutes on low heat. Turn off the heat, add salt to taste, and it's done.
Efficiency: Clearing heat, appetizing, and invigorating the spleen.
[The original plant morphology of Dicranopteris dichotoma]
Dicranopteris dichotoma is a perennial herb, 15-40cm tall, with white coarse hairs all over the plant. The rhizome is short, with numerous fibrous roots. When fresh, it is yellowish-white, and after drying, it becomes grayish-yellow.
Leaves mostly basal, spoon-shaped or broadly elliptic-lanceolate, 3-16cm long, 1-3.5cm wide, with slightly blunt serrations on the edges, and both sides are covered with gray-white coarse hairs.
Flowering occurs in summer and autumn. The peduncle of the flower is slightly stout, and the head-like inflorescence grows on the stem. The inflorescence is arranged in sparse unisexual umbels, and there are leaf-like bracts at the branching points.
The inflorescence has 2 rows of bracts, with the outer layer purple, all tubular flowers; the corolla is pale purple. The achene is ribbed, usually with 6 long and hard bristles at the top.
[Methods of using Dicranopteris dichotoma as medicine]
1. Various inflammatory diseases (bacterial dysentery, cold, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, acute gastritis, urinary tract infection, conjunctivitis, etc.): 30g of Dicranopteris dichotoma, 15g of Pyrrosia leaf, 15g of Houttuynia cordata, and 15g of Rabdosia rubescens. Decoct and take orally, 1-2 doses per day. Dicranopteris dichotoma can also be used alone. (20 pictures of Dicranopteris dichotoma)
2. Jaundice hepatitis, whooping cough: 60g of Dicranopteris dichotoma, decoct and take orally.
3. Lung heat cough: 30g of Dicranopteris dichotoma, 30g of Platycodon grandiflorus, decoct and take orally.
4. Breast pain, swelling and toxins, finger treatment, sores, eczema, snakebite: 60-120g of fresh Dicranopteris dichotoma, decoct and take orally; another appropriate amount of fresh Dicranopteris dichotoma, a little bit of wine lees, mash and apply externally or decoct and wash externally.
5. Acute otitis media: fresh Dicranopteris dichotoma, extract the juice and apply it to the ear, 3-4 times a day.
