"Then at sundown the Club Moss should be cut by the operator whilst kneeling, and with carefully washed hands. In Cornwall the Club Moss is considered good against most diseases of the eyes, provided it be gathered on the third day of the moon when first seen being shown the knife whilst the gatherer repeats these words:-ĭo thou cut what thou cut test for good." Chemically, the oil globules extracted from the spores contain "alumina" and "phosphoric acid." The diluted powder has proved practically beneficial for reducing the swelling and for diminishing the pulsation of aneurism when affecting a main blood-vessel of the heart. It is said that whenever a fan-like movement of the wings of the nostrils can be observed during the breathing, the whole group of symptoms thus detailed is specially curable by Club Moss.Īs a dose of the triturated powder, reduced to a weaker dilution, ten grains may be taken twice a day mixed with a dessertspoonful of water or of the tincture largely reduced in strength, ten drops twice a day in like manner. The Club Moss, thus prepared, has been experimentally taken by provers in varying material doses and is found through its toxical affinities in this way to be remarkably useful for chronic mucous indigestion and mal-nutrition, attended with sallow complexion, slow, difficult digestion, flatulence, waterbrash, heartburn, decay of bodily strength, and mental depression. Sugar of milk is then rubbed up for two hours or more with the broken spores, so as to compose a medicinal powder, which is afterwards to be further diluted or a tincture is made from the fractured spores, with spirit of ether, which will develop their specific medicinal properties. The spores of Club Moss constitute a fine pale-yellow, dusty powder which is unctuous, tasteless, inodorous, and only medicinal when pounded in all agate mortar until the individual spores, or nuts, are fractured.īy being thus triturated, the nuts give out their contents, which are shown to be oil globules, wherein the curative virtues of the moss reside. The word lycopodium means "wolf's claw," because of the claw-like ends to the trailing stems of this moss and the word clavatum signifies that its inflorescence resembles a club.
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