Maidenhair Fern Constituents: "Filicine, filicinal, fernene, adiantone, adipedifol (hopane-type triterpenes);b-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, (phytosterols); mucilage and tannin." Ref. B p.174, "Mucilage; tannins; gallic acid; sugars; various bitter principles; capillarine; minute quantities of an esential oil." Ref. D p. 144 |