What are the effects and functions of Botrychium ternatum
Botrychium ternatum, also known as Yiduo Yun, Bei She Sheng, San Xue Ye and so on, is the whole plant of the fern Botrychium ternatum in the family Ophioglossaceae. Used medicinally, it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, calming the liver and extinguishing wind, relieving cough and stopping bleeding, and improving eyesight and removing eye opacities. It has therapeutic effects on high fever with convulsions in children, cough due to lung heat, coughing blood, whooping cough, mania, epilepsy, sores and swellings due to toxin, scrofula, venomous snake bites, red eyes due to fire, and eye opacities. Let us take a look at the effects and functions of Botrychium ternatum together below!
The medicinal effects of Botrychium ternatum
[Nature and flavor] Sweet and bitter in flavor, slightly cold in nature, toxic.
[Meridians entered] Lung and liver meridians.
[Effects] Clearing heat and detoxifying, calming the liver and extinguishing wind, relieving cough and stopping bleeding, improving eyesight and removing eye opacities. Mainly treats high fever with convulsions in children, cough due to lung heat, coughing blood, whooping cough, mania, epilepsy, sores and swellings due to toxin, scrofula, venomous snake bites, red eyes due to fire, and eye opacities.
Related discussions on Botrychium ternatum
1. "Tianbao Bencao": Benefits the bladder, treats dizziness and head pain.
2. "Guizhou Folk Prescription Collection": Relieves cough, and can also clear heat and dispel wind, treats common cold and vomiting blood.
3. "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbal Medicines": Clears liver fire, improves eyesight, disperses eye opacities.
4. "Sichuan Materia Medica": Treats kidney deficiency and vomiting blood from lung disease, disperses cloud-like eye opacities, treats abdominal mass disease, and is applied externally for sores and toxin.
The pharmacological effects of Botrychium ternatum
1. Diuretic effect: In rabbits under strictly controlled water intake, daily oral administration of the tincture (with alcohol evaporated off and diluted with water and filtered before use) at 0.5 g/kg for five consecutive days produced a very significant diuretic effect, while the ash had no diuretic effect, indicating that its diuresis is mainly not due to potassium salts but to other active ingredients. Oral or intravenous injection of the decoction in rabbits also produced a diuretic effect.
2. Antibacterial effect: According to preliminary in vitro test results, the water infusion or decoction of Botrychium ternatum has varying degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic fungi. The fresh herb decoction, using the flat-plate filter paper method, has an inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli. Low concentrations have no obvious effect on isolated rabbit intestinal segments and atria, while high concentrations cause contraction of the intestinal segments and inhibition of the atria. It has a contractile effect on isolated rabbit ear blood vessels; oral toxicity is very low, while injectable administration has a certain toxicity.
Medicinal selected prescriptions of Botrychium ternatum
1. To treat heat cough: Yiduo Yun 2 to 5 qian, add white radish and rock sugar. Decoct in water and take.
2. To treat deficiency cough: Yiduo Yun 2 to 5 qian. Steam with lean meat and eat.
3. To treat whooping cough: Yiduo Yun, Sheng Che Long, and Tu Er Feng 5 qian each. Decoct in water and mix with honey to take.
4. To treat coughing blood due to lung heat: fresh Botrychium ternatum and fresh Feng Wei Cao 1 liang each. Decoct in water and mix with rock sugar to take.
5. To treat fire eyes: Botrychium ternatum leaves and thorn tree leaves, pound to extract juice and apply to the eyes.
6. To treat epilepsy: Botrychium ternatum 3 to 5 qian. Decoct in water and drink regularly as tea.
7. To treat infantile convulsions: Botrychium ternatum 3 qian. Decoct in water and take in divided doses morning and evening.
8. To treat sore toxin and wind toxin: Botrychium ternatum 2 to 3 qian. Decoct in water and take.
9. To treat cloud-like eye opacities: Yiduo Yun steamed with chicken liver and taken.