Polytrichum commune pictures and medicinal value: this common moss is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb

Polytrichum commune, like Polytrichum juniperinum, has high medicinal value, but the medicinal values of the two mosses are different. Let's learn about the medicinal value and main characteristics of Polytrichum commune below. When old, it turns brownish red or blackish brown. It grows on shady, damp earthen slopes in the mountains and fields, in forest swamps, and on acidic soil.

Polytrichum commune is a clumping plant among the mosses. Its plant body is relatively large and tall, with stems and leaves, densely covered with rhizoids on the lower part, and dark green on the upper part. Its color changes over time. It is dioecious; the capsule stalk is strong and brownish red; it reproduces by spores, and the spores are small. Its main medicinal uses are prolonged fever that will not subside, pulmonary disease and cough, night sweats, vomiting blood, blood in the stool, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic injuries, uterine prolapse, and bleeding from cuts. It is resistant to Gaffky's coccus, Staphylococcus aureus, pneumococcus, and tubercle bacillus, and has a certain inhibitory effect on tumors such as lymphocytic leukemia.