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Originally from Lu Chuan Ben Cao (陆川本草)

Pinyin Name Mǎ Ti Jue

English Name Rhizome of Fokien Angiopteris

Alias 牛蹄劳,马蹄树,地莲花,马蹄香,马蹄附子,观音座莲,觀音莲,马蹄莲,马蹄风,山羊蹄,福建莲座蕨 Mountain Pig's Liver, Great Cock's Tail, Cow's Foot Trail, Goat's Foot Nail, Duan Hunger Grass

Source

Herbal Origin: The rhizome of Fujian Guanyin Zazhou Fern (福建观音座莲莲), a plant in the family of Guanyin Zazhou.

Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Angiopteris fokiensis Hieron.

Harvesting and storage: can be harvested throughout the year, washed, remove the roots, sliced, dried or fresh.

Original form perennial large terrestrial fern, plant height 1.5-3m. rhizome erect, tuberous. Petiole stout, fleshy and juicy, about 50cm long, with fleshy stipule-like appendages at the base. Leaves clustered, herbaceous, broadly ovate, ca. 60cm or more in length and width, bipinnate; pinnae alternate, narrowly oblong, 14-18cm wide; pinnules spreading, upper ones slightly oblique upwards, middle ones 7-10cm, 1-1.8cm wide, lanceolate, apex acuminate, base subtruncate or subentire, shortly stipitate, proximal ones tapering, terminal and lateral pinnules homomorphic, stipitate; Leaf margins all shallowly triangularly serrate, lateral veins generally forked, without obverse pseudo-veins. Sporangium cluster brown, oblong, ca. 1 mm, 0.5-1 mm from leaf margin, usually composed of 8-10 sporangia.

Habitat

Ecology: Born in the understory near streams or on shady acidic soil or rocks.

Resource distribution: distributed in the southwest and Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Taste and smell bitter; cold; cool

Attributed to the heart; lung meridian

Functions and Indications Clearing heat and cooling the blood; eliminating blood stasis and stopping bleeding; analgesic and tranquilizing the mind. Mumps; canker sores; snake bites; bruises and swelling; traumatic bleeding; leakage; mammary carbuncle; rheumatism and paralysis; post-partum abdominal pain; heartburn and insomnia

Usage and dosage Internal: decoction of 10-30g, 30-60g of fresh; powdered, 3g each time, 9g per day; or grinding wine. Externally: appropriate amount, freshly pounded compresses; or dried products ground juice coated; or powdered sprinkled compresses.

Discussions

1. Lu Chuan Materia Medica: Cooling and toxic. It can be used to treat sores, boils and swellings.

2. Hunan Drugs: dispel wind and detoxification.

3. Guangxi Medicinal Plant Directory: treating rheumatism and bone pain, hot cough, mumps.

Excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica", "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicines"