Asplenium from Greek 'splen', relating to its use as a herb for the spleen Scolopendrium from Greek 'skolopendra', meaning millipede, and a reference to the arrangement of the spores on the underside of the fronds.

Stearn, W.T.. (1992). Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. Cassell.

Culpeper recommends a syrup made of the leaves for ‘hardness and stoppings of the spleen and liver, and the heat of the stomach, lax and the bloody flux’. He recommends a distillation of the leaves ‘against the passions of the heart, to stay the hiccough, to keep the falling of the palate’. He goes on to recommend the distillation as a remedy for bleeding gums, when used as a gargle.

Culpeper (attributed to) , N. Culpeper's Complete Herbal. W. Foulsham, London.

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