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Dryopteris crassirhizoma, Mian Ma Guan Zhong 绵马贯众

Male Fern
Mian Ma Guan Zhong (TCM)
Dryopteris crassirhizoma
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Botanical name:
Dryopteris crassirhizoma

Parts used:
Rhizome

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Bitter. slightly Toxic

Uses:
1. Kills Worms:
-Tapeworms, Roundworms, Pinworm, Hookworm, Liver fluke, Schistosomiasis
-abdominal pain from Worms

2. Clears Wind-Heat and Toxin:
-Common Cold, Flu or Epidemic disease from Wind-Heat and Toxin, with Fever, Sore Throat, aches and pains
-useful for a wide range of Toxic Heat disorders
-can help expression of rashes in Measles, Chicken Pox etc. Also to prevent infection
-Toxic Sores

3. Cools the Blood, Stops Bleeding
-Bleeding from Heat
-Vomiting Blood, Blood in the Stool including Dysentery with Blood
-especially for Uterine Bleeding and excessive Menstruation
-the carbonised herb is used for this function


DOSE:
Avoid fatty, fried and oily foods while using this medicine.
4–9 grams (up to 15 grams)

PREPARATION:
Carbonised root is used for Bleeding, specifically Metrorrhagia or metrostaxis. Dose is the same.

Main Combinations:
1. Common Cold and Flu from Wind-Heat, with Lonicera Jin Yin Hua, Paeonia Chi Shao Yao (as in Kang Gan Keli of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia)
2. Diseases from Heat and Toxin, with Coptis Huang Lian and Licorice
3. Influenza, Encephalitis B, Mumps, with Isatidis Da Qing Ye (Woad leaf), Isatidis Ban Lan Gen (Woad root), Lithospermum Zi Cao
4. To prevent Measles infection during epidemics, with Lonicera Jin Yin Hua
5. To help full expression of rash in Measles etc., with Paeonia Chi Shao Yao, Cimifuga Sheng Ma
6. Uterine Bleeding, excessive Menstruation, with Agrimony (Xian He Cao), charred Eclipta Han Lian Cao

Cautions:
1. Not used during Pregnancy
2. Not used in Cold bodies, Cough due to Yin deficiency
3. Not used in those with Ulcers, or a recent history of Ulcers
4. Avoid fatty, fried and oily foods while using this medicine.

Main Preparations used: