| Plant names |
| English |
Aspidium, Basket fern, Bear's Paw Root, Knotty Brake, Male-fern, Male shield fern, Shield fern, Sweet Brake |
| Latin |
Dryopteris filix-mas (L.)Schott., Aspidium filixmas, Polypodium filix-mas L. |
| Plant parts | Rhizome / Rootstock |
| Diseases & Uses |
| Diseases |
Anthelmintic, Antibacterial, Antigout, Antineuralgic, Antipyretic, AntiRheumatic, Antiviral, astringent, fever, inflammation, Influenza, internal bleeding, intestinal tapeworm, Meningitis, Pain, pneumonia, varicose veins, wound healing |
| Women's diseases |
Abortifacient, Metrorrhagia |
| Warnings |
brings on vomiting, causes nausea, do not selfadminister, No folk medical use, Toxic sideeffects |
| Other uses |
Anthelmintic, bedbug, keeps vermin at bay, magic power |
| Contents |
| | bitter essence, butanoic-Acid, Dyes, essential oil, fat, fat oil, Filixic acid, filmarone, Glucose, Hexanol, Isobutyric-Acid, Octanol, Organic acids, Phlobaphen, Phloroglucin, Phloroglucinol derivate, Potash, starch, sugar, Tannic acid, Tannin, Tanning agents |
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