📩 Acrostichum aureum

Traditional Herbs from Acrostichum aureum

snake_bite antidote

• Take enough fresh sea fern leaves and wash them until clean.
• Crush the leaves until they become a paste.
• Apply the leaf paste on the part where the snake has bitten.

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• Wash until clean the sea fern rhizome is sufficient.
• Crush the rhizome\u00a0to a paste.
• Apply the paste to boils or wounds.

What is Acrostichum aureum Looks like??

Parts of Acrostichum aureum that could be used

• Leaves
• Roots
• All Parts of the Plant
• Rhizomes

Acrostichum aureum Distribution

Sea ferns are pantropical plants, found along the coasts of Asia, America and Africa. This plant is abundant in mangrove vegetation throughout Southeast Asia. This plant has various functions in people's lives, locally it can be used as food, traditional medicine, and is often planted as an ornamental plant. In Malaysia, Indonesia (Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, Kangean), and the Philippines, the young shoots can be consumed as vegetables, but this plant contains thiaminase, an enzyme that robs the body of B complex vitamins. However, consuming it by cooking it first can eliminate thiaminase. In India, the leaves are often used to treat snake bites. Meanwhile, the leaves and rhizomes have been used throughout Southeast Asia as a poultice to treat wounds and boils. Apart from being a traditional medicine, vegetable and ornamental plant, Vietnamese and Pacific peoples have also used the hard, dry leaves like parchment which are sewn together and then used as roofing material (a substitute for straw).
Agroecology of Acrostichum aureum
Sea ferns are plants in humid lowland tropical and subtropical areas. Generally found in coastal areas, open mud flats in brackish swamps, edges of mangrove swamps or marshes, disturbed or clear-cut mangrove forests, along tidal streams, along land-side mangrove forests because they are less tolerant of seawater inundation. Young plants can tolerate changes between the two conditions (saline or non-saline), but older plants become accustomed to either saline or non-saline. Sea ferns can grow well in full sun.
Morphology of Acrostichum aureum

• The rhizome is erect, fibrous and covered with relatively large, linear to lanceolate to broadly ovate scales near the base of the leaf stalk, shiny or pale brown with a blackish central stripe.
• The dark green and erect or curved leaves consist of 24-30 leaflets in an alternate arrangement. Petioles (known as stipes) usually 1 m long. Five to eight pairs of leaflets near the tip of the leaf, fertile and covered with reddish brown sporangia the remaining leaves are infertile. The leaflets are pinnate, narrowly oval to elliptical in shape with blunt or rounded leaf bases, blunt leaf tips, small tails (mucronate), and bright red when young. Sporangia and sterile hairs (paraphyses) will cover the entire surface bottom of leaflets except midrib and gives a dark brown appearance.
• Flowers are not produced.

Cultivation of Acrostichum aureum
Naturally propagated by spores. Vegetative propagation can be possible by dividing the clump and rhizome cuttings.

Acrostichum aureum, more details :

Chemical Content of Acrostichum aureum
Beta-sitosterol, alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, catechins, saponins, tannins, glycosides, terpenoids, steroids, amygdalin, arbutin, formic acid, oxalic acid, five phytosterols (stigmasterol, y-sitosterol, campesterol, cycloartanol, and 24-methylene cycloartanol ), 2 sesquiterpenes ((2R,3S)-sulfated pterosin C, (2S,3S)-sulfated pterosin C), as well as 2 derivatives ((2S,3S)-pterosin C and (2R)-pterosin P).
Benefits of Acrostichum aureum
Poultices on wounds and boils, treat snake bites, syphilis ulcers, sore throats, chest pain, elephantiasis, constipation, diabetes, treat cloudy urination in women, reduce fever, worm medicine, stop bleeding, are emollient (soothing and softens the skin).
Simplisia of Acrostichum aureum

• Prepare enough sea fern leaves then wash them with clean water.
• After they are clean, drain them so that the remaining washing water is wasted.
• Chop them to a width of 1.5 cm so that drying takes place more quickly.
• Dry them in the air- Air it in a place protected from sunlight.
• Store in a clean, airtight container.

Another Facts for Acrostichum aureum :

Synonym of Acrostichum aureum
Asplenium arifolium Burm.f., Polystichum dissimulans Maxon, Acrostichum crassifolium Wall.
Habitus of Acrostichum aureum
Fern. Ferns, annual, up to 1-3 m high
Habitat of Acrostichum aureum

• Water Plants
• Forest
• Coastal