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Diplazium esculentum - Vegetable fern

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This plant is a large perennial fern with ascending rhizome of about 20 cm high and covered with short rufous scales of about 1 cm long. The plant is bipinnate with long brownish petioles, and the petiole base is black and covered with short scales. The frond can reach 1.5 cm in length, and the pinnae is about 8 cm long and 2 cm wide.
== Uses =={{Uses|Wounds}}, {{Uses|Cuts}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Curing liver disorders}}, {{Uses|Skin eruptions}}, {{Uses|Blotches}}, {{Uses|Pimples}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Sore throats}}<ref name="Uses"/>
*The young fronds are stir-fried as a "vegetable" or used in salads.==Parts Used==*In Hawaii it is used to make pohole.*A decoction of the leaves is used as a tonic for women after they have given birth{{Parts Used|Dried Folaige}}, {{Parts Used|Whole herb}}.
==Common Chemical Composition==alkaloids, reducing sugars, anthraquinones, anthranol glycosides, cyanidins, phenols, saponins, and proteins in both the ethanolic and aqueous leaf extracts, while cardiac glycosides, leucoanthocyanins, phytosterols, diterpenes<ref name=="chemical composition"/>
* '''English''' - Vegetable fern==Common names=={{Common names|kn=|ml=|sa=|ta=|te=|hi=|en=Agrimony}}
== References Properties==Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.===Dravya===
===Rasa=== ===Guna=== ===Veerya=== ===Vipaka=== ===Karma=== ===Prabhava=== ==Habit=={{Habit|Evergreen Fern}} ==Identification=====Leaf==={{Leaf|Simple|lanceolate|entire or rarely fimbriate, dark brown, membranous}}<ref name="Leaf"/> ===Flower==={{Flower|Unisexual|5-8 x 1-2 cm|Yellow|5-20|Flowers Season is June - August}} ===Fruit==={{Fruit|simple||clearly grooved lengthwise, Lowest hooked hairs aligned towards crown||many}} ===Other features=== ==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as ''root juice extract'' ==Where to get the saplings====Mode of Propagation=={{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}. ==How to plant/cultivate==A plant of the humid tropics<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/> ==Commonly seen growing in areas=={{Commonly seen|open marshy areas}}, {{Commonly seen|stream banks}}, {{Commonly seen|canals from sea}}. ==Photo Gallery==<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">File:Odermennig.jpgFile:Agrimonia eupatoria02.jpgImage:Agrimonia eupatoria MHNT.BOT.2004.0.jpg</gallery> ==References== <references><ref name="fernchemical composition">[http://www.jocpr.com/abstract/nutritional-and-phytochemical-screening-and-total-phenolic-and-flavonoid-content-of-diplazium-esculentum-retz-sw-from-ph-3608.html "Pharmaceutical Research"]</ref> <ref name="Leaf">[https://web.archiveindiabiodiversity.org/webspecies/show/242436 "Diagnostic"]</20120426005057ref> <ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[http://libnts.avrdctropical.orgtheferns.tw/fulltext_pdf/ebook1info/10-21%20vegetable%20fernviewtropical.pdf php?id=Diplazium+esculentum "Vegetable fernCultivation Details"]</ref>
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== External Links == * [http://2beingfit.com/vegetable-fern/# Diplazium esculentum on 2being fit.org]*[https://enwww.researchgate.wikipedianet/publication/285576327_CHEMICAL_PROFILE_OF_DIPLAZIUM_ESCULENTUM_RETZ_SW_A_MEDICINAL_FERN_FROM_WESTERN_GHATS 1 CHEMICAL PROFILE OF DIPLAZIUM ESCULENTUM (RETZ.org) SW.]* [http://wiki.medicinalplants-uses.com/index.php?title=Diplazium_esculentum Diplazium esculentum-Wikipediaon wiki medicinal plants]* [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975357511801045 Antibacterial activity of Diplazium esculentum]
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