Shchitovnik Male: Legend, Description, Application

There has long been a belief that in Ivanov the night is only for a moment, blazing with a bright red fire, the fern dissolves. A daredevil, venturing to break the "heat-color", is endowed with incredible abilities. Scientists have long debunked a beautiful legend, because of a huge number of species of this plant, no one blooms. Why did our ancestors sacredly believe in the magical power of the fern? Was it because they knew about his healing properties?

A fern male or male shield (Latin name - Dryopteris filix-mas) is a perennial plant growing in the forest zone of the Eurasian and North American continents. It is ubiquitous in the Russian forests, forest belts of the Altai, the Caucasus, the Kuznetsk Alatau and the Far East. Male fern does not have an above-ground stem, and large basal leaves reach a length of 1.2 meters. The male scutellum on the underside of its oblong dark green leaves has round formations - srusas, in which spores mature. From the end of June to September, spores are poured out, picked up by air currents and, getting into the soil, give life to new plants. The rhizome of the fern is powerful, horizontal or ascending, covered with remnants of dead leaf petioles and thin webbed scales. It was the rhizome that was included in the medicinal preparations made from time immemorial for getting rid of worms.

The male scaffold is toxic, and preparations from it are unsafe. In hospitals, phylixan is used - dry extract of male fern, thick extract of rhizome in capsules and foreign analogues of these medicines. They are used in intestinal cestodes - a group of helminth diseases, which are caused by tapeworms. The components of the extract are capable of paralyzing the musculature of the parasites, which leads to their death. Assigning the dose of the drug, doctors take into account the age of the patient, his physical condition, as well as possible contraindications. Do not take these medicines to patients with certain diseases of the heart, blood vessels and digestive organs. Pregnancy, active tuberculosis, malnutrition, anemia are also contraindications to the use of drugs based on the rhizome rhizome.

Everything that includes folk medicine (medicinal herbs, their collections, all sorts of tinctures, infusions, ointments) should be used with caution, because it is not only male poisonous, but some other medicinal plants. Traditional healers from time immemorial use the useful properties of male fern to get rid of parasites, for which the patient is recommended to drink first a glass of milk, and then a glass of wine with several grams of powdered rhizomes. With the help of external means, which include the scabbard, treat veins with thrombophlebitis, rheumatism, various ulcers and convulsive contractions of the muscles of the legs.

Do not forget that the fern is poisonous! Treatment with drugs male scrotal can be carried out only after consulting a doctor.