Latin name： Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) C. Presl

Family： Nephrolepidaceae

Part Used： Rhizome, leaves or whole plant

Properties： Taste sweet, tasteless, little harsh, cool in nature.

Actions：Clearing heat, inducing urination, treating stranguria, checking cough, dispersing swelling and detoxifying

Usage：Cold and pyrexia, coughing with lung heat, jaundice, stranguria with turbid urine, painful urination, diarrhea, dysentery, leukorrhea, hernia, mammary abscess, scrofula, scalding injuries, knife wounds, adenolymphitis, tinea glabrosa, orchitis.