Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) M.G. Price
Dragon Scale / Sakat ribu-ribu/Akar pitis/Sisik naga/Brunas-brunas (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
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Terrestrial epiphytic fern that grows on the trunks of old trees and can grow up to 5 cm tall. Leaves are scale- like, simple, light green, fleshy, thick, covered with long white hairs when young turning brown at age. The plant consists of fertile and sterile leaves. Sterile leaves are sessile or subsessile, fleshy, smooth with nearly circular to elliptical leaf blade. Fertile leaves are elongated, petiolate with linear leaf blade. Scales are almost circular or ovate with entire margin. Sori are arranged in a linear band along the edge of the leaves. Rhizomes are
The rhizomes and stems are boiled and made into a decoction to relieve yellow vaginal discharge, to stimulate uterine contraction and for womb healing after childbirth. Coffee and tea are often added into the decoction to mask the bitterness. Rhizome decoction can be consumed for women and believed to have anti-aging properties. The plant possesses antioxidant, antimicrobial, antilarvicidal, cytotoxic, antiobesity, antiphotoaging, anticancer, antidiabetic and oestrogenic
It is generally found in exposed places, often found colonizing tree trunks and barks.
Culm cutting.
Native to Malesia. [124]
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