Adiantum philippense

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Maiden Hair Fern is a small fern. Stipes 10-15 cm long, tufted, wiry, naked, polished dark chestnut-brown; fronds 15-30 cm long and 7.6 cm broad, simply pinnate, often elongated and rooting at the apex; pinnae subdimidiate, the lower edge nearly in a line or oblique with the petiole, the upper edge rounded; the rachis and both surfaces naked; sori in continuous lines along the edge.
The plant is cooling, alterative, alexiteric; useful in dysentery, ulcers, erysipelas, burning sensation and epileptic fits. Roots are good for strangury and for fever due to elephantiasis. For the treatment of febrile affections in children, the leaves are rubbed with water and given with sugar.