Pig Hair Herb is the whole plant of the fern family plant Polypodiaceae or Polypodium decumanum, also known as Pig Hair Seven. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. It can be used for symptoms such as cold and fever, lung heat cough, and snake bites. Can pregnant women eat the Chinese medicine Pig Hair Herb?
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[Treatment of flu and fever with Pig Hair Herb]
Polypodium decumanum 60g, Adiantum capillus-veneris 30g, Scutellaria baicalensis 15g, Gypsum fibrosum 30g. Decoction with water. Take it three times a day. (Common Chinese Herbal Formulas)
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Pig Hair Herb has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. It is mainly used for cold and fever, lung heat cough, damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, stranguria, leukorrhea, breast abscess, scrofula, carbuncle, burns, and snake bites.
Herbal Prescription: "Warms qi and blood, nourishes the lungs, stops coughing, and transforms phlegm. (Treatment) Deficiency of qi and blood caused by labor injury, deficiency of blood in women."
Pig Hair Herb has the effects of relieving cough and transforming phlegm, softening hardness and dispersing nodules, and nourishing deficiency and stopping cough. It can be used to treat bronchitis, asthma, lung heat cough, hemoptysis, pneumonia, etc.
In addition, it can also be used to treat mastitis, blocked milk ducts, postpartum bleeding, and postpartum stasis in women, using 30 grams, and need to be decocted with water and sweet wine.
[The morphological characteristics of Pig Hair Herb]
Polypodium decumanum is a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching a height of 20-50 cm. The roots are densely rooted and pale brown. The rhizome is horizontal, yellow-brown, and densely covered with light brown scales.
The leaves are nearly basal; the petioles are slender and weak, with scales at the base, purplish-black, shiny, and about the same length as the leaf blades; the leaves are 1-3 pinnately compound, with 3 pinnate in the lower part.
2 pinnate in the middle part, and 1 pinnate in the upper part: there are 8-13 pairs of leaflets, alternate, with petioles, the largest pair near the base, the last pinnate leaflet is about 3-3.5 mm wide.
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Most of them are fan-shaped, with a wedge-shaped base and a small stem, and the upper margin often has irregular deep lobes, the lobes are obtuse, and the sterile lobes also have small teeth. The leaves are thin and herbaceous, pale green, smooth on both sides, and the veins are obvious.
The cover of the sporangia group is folded downward from the edge of the leaflet, usually with 3-7 per leaflet, rectangular, brown, with white edges, membranous, sporangia groups are round to oblong, slightly curved, without stalks, spores are tiny, pale yellow.
Pig Hair Herb grows in rock crevices by streams or near houses, walls, distributed in East China, Central South China, Southwest China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
[Can pregnant women eat Pig Hair Herb]
No, they cannot. It is best for pregnant women to avoid eating it to avoid adverse effects on the normal development of the fetus.
Pig Hair Herb is bitter and cool in nature, good at clearing heat and transforming phlegm, diuresis and reducing swelling, and can also dispel rheumatism and dispel wind. Therefore, it can be used for lung heat cough, hemoptysis, joint pain, leukorrhea, sores, and eczema.
In terms of medicinal value, Pig Hair Herb can clear heat and detoxify, and promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It can be used for dysentery, scrofula, lung heat cough, hepatitis, urinary tract infection, snake bites, and injuries.
Pharmacological research shows that Polypodium decumanum has anti-tumor, anti-cardiovascular disease, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, immune regulation, blood glucose lowering, antioxidant, and anti-aging effects.
