കയ്യാലപ്പന്നൽ

Adiantum philippense L.

Syn: Adiantum lunulatum. 

Pteridaceae. 

Walking maiden hair fern. 

हम्सपादी Hamsapaadi 

കയ്യാലപ്പന്നൽ kayyala pannal in Malayalam.

 Outside Kerala Adiathum is taken as Hamspadi instead of Desmodiun triflorum.

‘Hamsapada aakaara patraa’ that leaflets resembles the leg of the swan( Dalhana )

VERNACULAR NAMES

Goyali Lota, Kalijhant in Bengali: Hamsapadi in Hindi

Jarigida in Kannada

Hamsapadi,Kitamata,Tripadika in Sanskrit.

 BHAVAPRAKASA

हम्सपादी हम्सपदी कीडमाता त्रिपादिका

हम्सपादी गुरु: शीता हन्ति रक्ता विषवृणान्

विसर्प्प दाहातीसार लूता भूतादी रोगनुत्

Uses

Ropani, vishahara

Paste applied as lepana in wounds, burns, skin diseases, luta visha

rheumatic joint swellings.

Dry powder with honey is kantya कण्ठ्या,

Cough

In apasmara bhoota vinashini,

Rasayana - Raja nighantu