Talk:Pteridium aquilinum
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Traditional medicine
[edit]I'm not sure this section belongs in the article. There are crackpot pseudo scientific uses for plants all over the world, and it's not helpful to list a few peculiar Finnish beliefs about bracken here. Ef80 (talk) 16:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Not all species contain ptaquiloside, and the species regularly consumed in East Asia is not bracken
[edit]Diplazium esculentum, a fern with fiddleheads regularly consumed in East Asia, differs from the species containing ptaquiloside, Pteridium aquilinum (bracken), found in areas outside of East Asia. There is at least one point in this article that might be conflating the two species (e.g. attributing Japan's stomach cancer rate with consumption of bracken instead of the other) so the article may need to be updated. Here's an example reference: https://www.businesstoday.com.tw/article/category/80731/post/201509030004/ A rough translation (via Google Translate) of a key paragraph: 'Chen Huicheng, a researcher at the Neurological and Psychiatric Research Center of the National Institutes of Health, explained that Guomao is the common name of Guogou Vegetable Fern. Its English name is "Vegetable Fern" and its scientific name is "Diplazium esculentum". It is a genus of Diplazium esculentum in the subfamily Diplazium esculentum. , is different from Bracken Fern, which is considered to be carcinogenic in experiments. The latter's scientific name is Pteridium aquilinum, which is a genus of Pteridinae subfamily. "The two are fundamentally different species."' Trismax (talk) 10:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)