Botany
An evergreen fern with a short, ascending, and scaly rhizome with spirally arranged, stipitate and compound leaves.
Stipe is dark is small, dark green, smooth, fan-shaped leaflets.
Veins are free and often forked.

Properties
Emmenagogue, expectorant, aperitive, diuretic, astringent, febrifuge, emollient.

Distribution
Grows in shady, moist places. Usually, flower-pot cultivation for ornamental purposes.

Parts used
Leaves, rhizomes.

Uses:
Folkloric
Decoction of leaves (fronds) as tea for chest afflictions, colds, coughs, snoring.
Promotes appetite and digestive aid. Also, gently laxative;
Decoction of rhizomes as tea for cough, respiratory problems, fevers, and abdominal colic.
Externally, for a variety of skin diseases and inflammatory conditiions.
It is used as a postpartum tonic, in doses of two tablespoons every two hours.
Regulates menstruation.
Used as a lotion for falling hair and baldness.

Availability
Wild-crafted.
Cultivated