5 ferns with healing powers and how to use these plants

Ferns are lower plants that are associated with environments saturated with moisture..

They exist close to 9,400 different species, spread over almost the entire planetbut they are especially abundant in the most humid regions.

In our latitudes they are modest in size and thrive in the shade of the forest, but in the tropics they take on magnificent dimensions: they reach arboreal size with heights greater than 15 meters, and their vision transports us to the moving landscape that dinosaurs could travel in the Jurassic.

Although to a much lesser extent than flowering plants, Ferns have been used for medicinal purposes since very ancient times.

In this article we highlight five of the most used. Other ferns with application in phytotherapy are: calaguala, deer’s tongue, common fern, polypod, male fern, lesser maidenhair, lunaria, snake’s tongue and horsetails.