Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Arrowhead-Fern
Family: Hemionitidaceae
Botanical name: Hemionitis arifolia
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Brihatprasarini, Sasakarni, Akhukarni
Hindi:
English: Arrowhead-Fern, Heart Fern, Tongue Fern
Malayalam: Matilpanna, Elichevi
Botanical name: Hemionitis arifolia
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Brihatprasarini, Sasakarni, Akhukarni
Hindi:
English: Arrowhead-Fern, Heart Fern, Tongue Fern
Malayalam: Matilpanna, Elichevi
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Arrowhead-Fern is very unusual tropical fern with heart-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves in a tuft on black stalks. It has 2 types frond: sterile, heart shaped ones with stalks 2-4 in (5-10 cm) long, and fertile, arrowhead-shaped ones on stalks about 12 in (30 cm) long. Hemionitis arifolia is both an epiphyte (growing on trees) as well as a terrestrial plant. The small dainty shade loving fern grows well in low light with high humidity. It is making small plantlets at the point where the stem joins the leaf.
The whole plants of Arrowhead-Fern medicinal plant is used for intestinal worms and diabetes