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Botanical Name |
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Adiantum lunulatum Burm. |
English
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Crescent maidenhair. |
Synonym(s) |
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Adiantum philippense L. |
Family |
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Pteridaceae |
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General Info
Description |
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Rhizome short-creeping, erect or suberect, to 5 mm diam.; scales yellow to dark red-brown, often bicolorous, with entire or scarcely serrate margins and blunt apical seta. Fronds tufted, arching, to 40 cm long. Stipe to 15 cm long, glabrous. Lamina 1-pinnate, narrowly triangular, 10–22 cm long, 3–6 cm wide; rachis glabrous, occasionally extended past lamina and ending in proliferous bud. Pinnules subdimidiate, rounded-trapeziform or semi-circular to almost lunate, glabrous; basal angle acute on upper pinnules, usually obtuse on lower ones; distal margin entire or irregularly lobed, scarcely denticulate when sterile; stalks articulated to rachis. Sori 1–10 per segment, occupying entire lobe margin; soral flaps linear to sublunate, glabrous. |
Herb Effects |
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Pungent, alterative, alexiteric, antidysenteric, antiulcer,antierysipelas,antiepileptic |
Chemistry
Active Ingredients |
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22,29xi-epoxy-30-norhopane-13beta-ol (1), fern-9(11)-en-6alpha-ol. fern-9(11)-ene, fern-9(11)-en-25-oic acid, fern-9(11)-en-28-ol, filicenol-B, adiantone and oxidation product of fern-9(11)-en-6alpha-ol obtained as 6-oxofern-9(11)-ene (whole plant)Reddy et al., 2001 |
Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Structure |
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22,29xi-Epoxy-30-norhopane-13beta-ol |
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C29H48O2 |
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Pharmacology
Medicinal Use |
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Fruits are used in leprosy, fever and erysipelas; for strangury and fever due to elephantiasis (roots); in treating blood diseases and burning sensation |
Reference |
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Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Marino A. Elberti MG. Cataldo A. Phytochemical investigation of Adiantum capillus veneris. Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper 1989 65(5):461-3.
Reddy VL, Ravikanth V, Rao TP, Diwan PV, Venkateswarlu Y. 2001 A new triterpenoid from the fern Adiantum lunulatum and evaluation of antibacterial activity. Phytochemistry.2001 56(2):173-5.
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