You will receive fresh Polypodium Vulgare rhizomes a 250cl container. Polypody stimulates bile secretion and is a gentle laxative. A syrup or tea prepared with the root possesses anthelmintic attributes and is helpful in getting rid of parasitic worms, especially tapeworms, from the body.
Antibiotic Activity: The polydin present in dried polypody rhizome has been found to possess antibiotic activity and hence used in cough and cold.
Polypodium vulgare Linn. rhizome is used in European, American, Chinese, and Unani and Ayurveda traditions.
In European herbal medicine it is traditionally used as a treatment for hepatitis and jaundice and as a remedy for indigestion and loss of appetite.
The root is alterative, anthelmintic, cholagogue, demulcent, diuretic, expectorant, pectoral, purgative, tonic.
A tea made from the roots is used in the treatment of pleurisy, hives, sore throats and stomach aches and as a mild laxative for children. It was also considered of value for lung ailments and liver diseases.
It is believed to help "cleanse" the liver or support liver function, often as part of broader detoxification regimens. Preparations were sometimes employed in folk medicine to address jaundice or other symptoms presumed to be related to liver dysfunction.
The aqueous extract of Polypodium vulgare Linn. was found to possess analgesic activity, protective effect in various neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, stimulatory effect on the adrenoceptors, and antioxidant properties.
Medicinal use:
Apprient (Mushile balgam wa sauda): It purges out black bile without causing gripes, phlegm and aqueous chime. Due to this property the drug has wide
application in bilious disorders.
Cardio tonic (Muqawwie Qalb): It improves the functioning of the heart by purifying the heart muscles from toxic effects of abnormal black bile and over all gives the patient a sense of well being.
Digestiv (Haazim): The rhizome of Polypodium has been found to assist in digestive processes and mainly helps in the digestion of milk by causing first itn precipitation and later fallowed by its dissolution and thus relives the patient of flatulence and dyspepsia.
Antispasmodic (Dafae qoulanj): Polypodium vulgare has been used as an antispasmodic agent and has found effective in various types of colics. Along with some other drugs like Aniseed and Liquorice , it is found to give relief in cough and bronchospasm.
Antiepileptic: The drug has been found to be effective in epileptic disorders along with Amaltas and drug has been reported to be effective in cracks of inter phalyngeal spaces, claw hand, acne, indolent tumours and rheumatic pain on topical application. The drug
has been used also in powder form as snuff in polypus of nose.
New Research:
Antiviral Properties: An extract of polypody rhizome, in a preliminary study, showed the antiviral properties tested on cell culture (Buffalo Green Monkey).
As an insecticide: The ecdysones present in the rhizome (0.07%-1% dry weight) of Polypodium vulgare act topically on a wide variety of arthropods and cause abnormal moulting and death , so ecdysone analogues may be useful not only as insecticides but
also miticides
.
Neuro-psychopharmacological activity: The aqueous extract of the Polypodium vulgare Linn showed Neuro psychopharmacological activity. Its administration
showed decreased alertness, mild passivity and decreased locomotor activity in mice and rats.
Anti-epileptic Activity: The polypod rhizome extract was found to possess anti-epileptic activity.
Anti pyrectic Activity: The extract caused gradual fall in rectal temperature of rats. Furthermore, administration of the extract in the same dose significantly prevented or reduced the pyrexial response of TAB injection in rabbits.
Analgesic Activity: The aqueous extract of Polypodium vulgare was found to possess analgesic activity by increasing the reaction time in rats, post administration.
Hypotensive Activity: At low doses the extract produced a fall in blood pressure in anaesthetized dogs, which was rapid in onset and short in duration.
However, a fall followed by a rise in blood pressure was observed with high doses.
The hypotensive effect appears to be due to vasodilatation due to ß-adrenergic receptor
stimulation. It has been suggested that the hypotensive activity mentioned above, may be caused by catechins.
These fresh rhizomes can either be used as herbal medicine or planted in a shady place they will send out leaves a few months later.
It should not be used externally since it can cause skin rashes.
