English name:
Golden moss.
Description:
Arborescent fern. Rhizome stout and short, clothed with long brownish-yellow silky hairs. Leaves are fronds, tripinnate, over 2m. long, bearing many sori beneath; spores minute, pale-brown.
Spore - bearing period:
October - January.
Distribution:
Grows wild in wet and shady ravines in mountainous regions.
Parts used:
Rhizomes are harvested at the end of the year. After all the radicles and the yellow hairs covering them have been removed, the rhizomes should be chipped into slices and dried in the sun.
Chemical composition:
The rhizomes contain 30% starch. The yellow fuzz yields tannin and pigments.
Therapeutic uses:
The rhizome has anti-inflammatory and anodyne properties. It is utilized in the therapy of rheumatism, osteodynia, lumbago, sciatica, leucorrhoea, polyuria in the aged, dysuria and pollakiuria. The daily dosage is 10 to 20g in the form of a decoction or alcoholic maceration. The yellow hairs of the rhizome are used in a haemostatic poultice for wounds.
Source: Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (Institute of Materia Medica).
Golden moss.
Description:
Arborescent fern. Rhizome stout and short, clothed with long brownish-yellow silky hairs. Leaves are fronds, tripinnate, over 2m. long, bearing many sori beneath; spores minute, pale-brown.
Spore - bearing period:
October - January.
Distribution:
Grows wild in wet and shady ravines in mountainous regions.
Parts used:
Rhizomes are harvested at the end of the year. After all the radicles and the yellow hairs covering them have been removed, the rhizomes should be chipped into slices and dried in the sun.
Chemical composition:
The rhizomes contain 30% starch. The yellow fuzz yields tannin and pigments.
Therapeutic uses:
The rhizome has anti-inflammatory and anodyne properties. It is utilized in the therapy of rheumatism, osteodynia, lumbago, sciatica, leucorrhoea, polyuria in the aged, dysuria and pollakiuria. The daily dosage is 10 to 20g in the form of a decoction or alcoholic maceration. The yellow hairs of the rhizome are used in a haemostatic poultice for wounds.
Source: Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (Institute of Materia Medica).
Cibotium barometz, golden chicken fern, woolly fern, is a species of tree fern in the fern family Dicksoniaceae.C. barometz is native to parts of China and to the western part of the Malay Peninsula. The plant grows only to a height of 1 meter, when erect, but is often prostrate, forming colonies of plants on open forest slopes and in disturbed areas. The fronds up to 3 m (10 ft) long. The sori are marginal on the pinnules.
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