Club
Moss is a particularly interesting Fern Ally. It is not a true moss,
yet many mosses have been used traditionally in its place. Fr.
Johannes Künzle stated:
The
forest moss, especially the stagshorn moss (Lycopodium), which
produces meter-long stems, has the same power against cramps and
spasmodic legs as the fern root. The decoction can be used repeatedly
for foot-baths. The stagshorn moss decoction drives away all kinds of
lice and vermin from people and cattle. A bundle of stagshorn moss at
the foot of the bed, pulls cramps out of the legs, probably because
this plant contains radium.
The
true Club Moss has great medicinal value, and like the ferns is
somewhat mysterious in its actions. Specifically, Club Moss has
found much use in the tradition of German Folk Medicine:
Brother
Aloysius included Club Moss in his herbal - Used for cuts, dropsy,
dysentery, diarrhea, boiled in wine to expel stones, decoction used
as a wash for parasites, placed in bed for foot cramps.
Maria
Treben wrote of Club Moss:
This
mossy evergreen plant has 1 to 2 metre long ramblers which trail
along the forest ground with their hair-like roots. From these
ramblers grow 7 to 10 cm. high forked branches soft to the touch. The
4 year old plants develop yellowish spikes which yield the pollen,
called Club Moss powder, which is homoepathically employed for
excoriated surfaces of the skin.
The
Club Moss is radium containing plant and easily distinguished by its
widely ranging, rope-like ramblers and the yellow pollen of the
spikes. It is found all over the world and occurs in high forests on
Northern slopes and in moors. If the forests are cut down, the plant
turns yellow and shrivels up, since it looses its life force through
the direct sunlight.
For
gout and rheumatism, even if the joints are deformed, for chronic
constipation and piles, Club Moss tea is recommended. However, people
who suffer from diarrhoea should use the tea only with the greatest
caution as cramps in the intestines could develop. Club Moss is never
boiled, water is poured over it. The tea is useful for all complaints
of the urinary- and reproductive organs, for inflammations and
hardening of the testes, formation of gravel in the kidneys and renal
colic. For inflammation of the liver, growth of the connective tissue
of the liver, even if malignant, Club Moss is indispensable. With its
use the convalescent quickly regains his strength.
The
husband of an acquaintance of mine suffered for years from shortness
of breath at night which was treated as asthma. It got worse until
one day he visited the doctor again. "If you don't stop working
immediately you'll be a dead man in a week." The doctor
transferred him to a hospital in my hometown. From his wife I learned
that he suffered from hardening of the liver (cirrhosis of the liver)
in its last state. Shortness of breath at night is one symptom of it.
After a time he was sent home, a doomed man. On my advice the woman
got some Club Moss which helped very quickly. Don't you think it a
miracle if I tell you that this man lost his terrible nightly
shortness of breath after his first cup of Club Moss tea?
lf
you know someone in your circle of friends suffering from cirrhosis
of the liver, even if it is very bad, give this person hope and point
to our radium containing Club Moss so important in herbal medicine.
During
a walking tour through the forest which I undertook with a small
group of people in Upper Austria, I pointed out to the Botanist, Dr.
Bruno Weinmeister, the medicinal value of Club Moss in regard to
cirrhosis and cancer of the liver. He thereupon told of the following
event: As a young student he and his friends had been walking in the
mountains. On the path to the hut between dwarf pines he found a Club
Moss rambler. ln high spirits, he wound it around his hat. ln the hut
one of his friends got a terrible cramp in his foot, that is, the
foot stood at an angle to the knee. Everyone tried to help. The
hutkeeper brought "Franzbranntwein" (an embrocating made of
diluted spirits of wine and essence) and massaged the foot without
success. Following a suggestion, the young Weinmeister wound the Club
Moss around the cramped foot up to the knee. ln a moment the foot
turned back to its normal position' Now he thought this was a
coincidence. Perhaps the cramp would have gone without the Club Moss.
On the way home he picked a handful of Club Moss for his landlady who
suffered from leg cramps. These brought the lady immediate relief. A
few years later, Dr. Weinmeister talked about this incident to a
specialist and learned from him that the Common Club Moss is a radium
containing plant. Since then many people have been cured of cramps in
the legs and feet with the help of a Club Moss pillow.
A
friend was taken to hospital since she could not urinate. The upper
arm was quite swollen. After she had left the hospital it started
again and was as before. Luckily I had some Club Moss at home, as my
mother-in-law - her age at that time was 86 years - suffered from
cramps in her legs. My assumption that my friend suffered from a
cramp in her bladder was confirmed when I applied a small bag of
dried Club Moss to the region of the bladder and in a few minutes she
was able to urinate normally. This small bag of Club Moss she kept
applied to the region of the bladder for a few more days.
I
myself suffered from high blood pressure for years. Mostly this was
due to over functioning of the kidneys. Therefore I applied a small
bag stuffed with Club Moss to the kidney region overnight. The next
day my blood pressure was down from 200 to 165. Since then I apply a
small bag filled with Club Moss to the kidney region from time to
time.
For
cramps in the leg, the Club Moss is placed in a cloth and tied around
the calf. Foot baths can be taken, and also sitz baths for cramps in
the bladder (see General information "sitz bath").
War
and accident injuries leave scars which sometimes cause cramps. A
disabled soldier had a large scar on his back. This scar gave him
from time to time terribly painful cramps which caused heavy
perspiration all over. The pain spread over his scalp. Through the
use of the Club Moss pillow and baths I was able to relieve this
man's pain of 30 years duration.
The
Club Moss powder, also sold as "Club Moss Spores", heals
bedsores of seriously ill people in a short time. The Club Moss
powder is finely and gently spread over the open sores. Generally
there is a noticeable relief after the first use.
DIRECTIONS
INFUSION:
¼ lilre of boiling water is poured over a level teaspoon of Club
Moss, infused for a short time. Only 1 cup is taken in sips on an
empty stomach, half an hour before breakfast. For cirrhosis and
malignant diseases of the liver,2 cups are drunk daily.
CLUB
MOSS PILLOW: Dried Club Moss (100 gm., 200 gm. or 300 gm. depending
on the size of the area affected by a cramp) is stuffed into a pillow
which is applied to the aching area overnight. This pillow retains
its effect for one year.
Gerard
wrote of mosses in general, listing Club Moss among them:
A.
The Arabian physicians do put Moss amongst their cordial medicines,
as fortifying the stomach, to stay vomit, and to stop the lask.
B.
Moss boiled in wine and drunk stoppeth the spitting of blood, pissing
of blood, the terms, and bloody flux.
C.
Moss made into powder is good to stanch the bleeding of green and
fresh wounds, and is a great help unto the cure of the same.
D.
Wolf's Claw provoketh urine, and as Hieronymus Tragus reporteth,
wasteth the stone, and driveth it forth.
E.
Being stamped and boiled in wine and applied, it mitigateth the pain
of the gout.
F.
Floating wine, which is now become slimy, is restored to his former
goodness if it be hanged in the vessel, as the same author
testifieth.
Culpepper
also wrote of mosses in general:
I
shall not trouble the reader with a description of these, since my
intent is to speak only of two kinds, as the most principal, viz.
Ground Moss and Tree Moss, both which are very well known.
Place.
The Ground Moss grows in our moist woods, and at the bottom of hills,
in boggy grounds, and in shadowy ditches, and many other such like
places. The Tree Moss grows only on trees.
Government
and virtues. All sorts of Mosses are under the dominion of Saturn.
The Ground Moss is held to be singularly good to break the stone, and
to expel and drive it forth by urine, being boiled in wine and drank.
The herb being bruised and boiled in water, and applied, eases all
inflammations and pains coming from an hot cause; and is therefore
used to ease the pains of the gout.
The
Tree Mosses are cooling and binding, and partake of a digesting and
molifying quality withal, as Galen saith. But each Moss partakes of
the nature of the tree from whence it is taken; therefore that of the
oak is more binding, and is of good effect to stay fluxes in man or
woman; as also vomiting or bleeding, the powder thereof being taken
in wine. The decoction thereof in wine is very good for women to be
bathed in, that are troubled with the overflowing of their courses.
The same being drank, stays the stomach that is troubled with
casting, or hiccough; and, as Avicena saith, it comforts the heart.
The powder thereof taken in drink for some time together, is thought
available for the dropsy. The oil that has had fresh Moss steeped
therein for a time, and afterwards boiled and applied to the temples
and forehead, marvellously eases the head-ache coming of a hot cause;
as also the distillations of hot rheums or humours in the eyes, or
other parts. The ancients much used it in their ointments and other
medicines against the lassitude, and to strengthen and comfort the
sinews. For which, if it was good then, I know no reason but it may
be found so still.
John
K’Eough tells us of the specific use of CLub Moss in the Irish
tradition:
If
inserted into the nose, it stops bleeding and is a useful ingredient
of astringent ointment. A decoction of it in claret stops diarrhea.
There
are also many members of Lycopodium Mrs, Grieve, in her A Modern
Herbal, says that American Club Moss, Lycopodium complanatum, can be
used similarly to Common (to Europe) Club Moss, Lycopodium
clavatum... but that neither should be confused with Yellow Bugle,
which may also be called European Ground Pine (Ajuga chamaepitys).
American and Common Club Moss should also not be confused with
Chinese Club Moss, which may be useful for Alzheimer's. And, to make
matters even more confusing, Plants for A Future says about
Lycopodium selago: "The plant is hypnotic. Chewing three stems
is said to induce mild intoxication whilst eight can cause
unconsciousness."
Mrs.
Grieve tells us:
This
species is found all over the world and occurs throughout Great
Britain, being most plentiful on the moors of the northern counties.
Though
this species of Club Moss occurs in Great Britain, the spores are
collected chiefly in Russia, Germany and Switzerland, in July and
August, the tops of the plants being cut as the spikes approach
maturity and the powder shaken out and separated by a sieve. Probably
the spores used commercially are derived also from other species in
addition to Lycopodium clavatum.
Medicinal
Action and Uses---The part of the plant now employed is the minute
spores which, as a yellow powder, are shaken out of the kidney-shaped
capsules or sporangia growing on the inner side of the bracts
covering the fruit spike. Under the names of Muscus terrestris or M.
clavatum the whole plant was used, dried, by ancient physicians as a
stomachic and diuretic, mainly in calculous and other kidney
complaints; the spores do not appear to have been used alone until
the seventeenth century, when they were employed as a diuretic in
dropsy, a drastic in diarrhoea, dysentery and suppression of urine, a
nervine in spasms and hydrophobia, an aperient in gout and scurvy and
a corroborant in rheumatism, and also as an application to wounds.
They were, however, more used on the Continent than in this country
and never had a place in the London Pharmacopoeia, though they have
been prescribed for irritability of the bladder, in the form of a
tincture, which is official in the United States Pharmacopoeia.
The
spores are still medicinally employed by herbalists in this country,
both internally and externally, as a dusting powder in various skin
diseases such as eczema and erysipelas and for excoriated surfaces,
to prevent chafing in infants. Their chief pharmaceutical use is as a
pill powder, for enveloping pills to prevent their adhesion to one
another when placed in a box, and to disguise their taste. Dose, 10
to 60 grains. They have such a strong repulsive power that, if the
hand is powdered with them, it can be dipped in water without
becoming wet.
Club
Moss does not seem to have found much use in early American Medicine,
but is was known, as it was mentioned in Resources of The Southern
Fields and Forests. Herbal Remedies of The Lumbee Indians tells us
that they knew the herb as Rheumatism Plant:
(Lycopodium
flabilliforme) Lycopodium is a Club Moss rather than a conifer and
reproduces by means of spores released from candelabra shaped cases.
A single plant may cover several square yards with dense, shining
green, cedar-like foliage. The six inch, upright stalks arise from
long, horizontal stems which lie beneath the top layer of humus. It
has been said that Native American of long ago must have suffered
greatly from rheumatism because their appear to be more treatments
for rheumatism than any other ailment in Native America Communities.
Lumbee healers thought it best to gather the Rheumatism Plant when
the “candles” (cones) were present, but it was gathered at all
times of the year. Two or three handfuls of the entire plant were
covered with water and boiled. A cloth was soaked in the tea and
applied as a wet compress to painful areas.
The
Lumbee are a modern tribe, made up of the remnants of several Native
American tribes that inhabited the coastal swamps of the Carolinas.
I grew up, partially, in the Lumbee territory and have distant
relatives in the tribe. I believe the statement about rheumatism
being very common among the Native Americans of that area is true,
due to the lack of dolomite in the soil. Older people of all races
in the region often suffer from terrible arthritis, causing the
joints of the hands, especially, to be large and swollen. I have not
witnessed arthritis to be as bad or as common among the Cherokee who
call the mineral-rich Appalachian Mountains home. Continuing in the
Native American traditions though, several tribes found Club Moss
useful for similar purposes.
Peterson
Field Guide to Medicine Plants states:
American
Indians used the plant tea for postpartum pains, fever and weakness.
In folk medicine, spores used for diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism;
also as a diuretic, gastric sedative, aphrodisiac, styptic;
externally, in powders for baby’s chafing, tangles or matted hair
with vermin, herpes, eczema, dermatitis in the folds of the skin,
erysipelas. Spores, called “vegetable sulphur,” formerly used
to coat pills and suppositories. A related Chinese species in the
Clubmoss family, is being researched as a potential treatment for
Alzheimer’s disease.
Warning:
Clubmoss, L. clavatum, contains a toxic alkaloid.
By
1898, Club Moss was being used medicinally by physicians in America.
Kings Medical Dispensatory tells us:
Lycopodium,
or Common club moss, is found in almost all parts of the earth,
especially in northern regions, growing in dry situations, as
pastures, mountains, and woods. The spores, the chief medicinal
portion, are shaken out of the renal-shaped capsules (sporangia)
which grow on "the inner side of the bracts covering the fruit
spike" (Pharmacographia) as a yellowish powder. The drug is
gathered in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland, during the months of
July and August, by the peasants, who cut the tops from the plants
and carry them to their homes, where the powder is obtained by
shaking the tops and sifting out the extraneous matter. As the plant
fails to be plentiful some years, the annual collection is apt to
vary much.
Action,
Medical Uses, and Dosage.—This agent was for a long time used only
as a dusting powder for protective purposes in erysipelas,
intertrigo, herpes, ulcers, eczemas, etc. Druggists used it to
prevent pills from adhering to each other in the boxes, and
pyrotechnists employed it in the manufacture of their wares. Of
recent years it has become quite important as a remedy in our school,
the suggestion coming first from the homoeopaths, who use it quite
extensively. It was introduced to us as a remedy by Prof. Scudder. He
prepared a tincture of the fresh plant before it had cast its
sporules with 98 per cent alcohol, and also a tincture of the
sporules first triturated in a dry mortar until doughy, then placing
them in a percolator, covering with alcohol, allowing to macerate 4
days, when the tincture was drawn off. He recommended the tincture of
the sporules in "extreme sensitiveness of the surface;
sensitiveness of a part, and care to prevent its being touched; slow,
painful boils; nodes or swellings; extreme sensitiveness of the
organs of special sense, with pale, livid, or dirty complexion"
(Spec. Med. 174) (I can't find it. Perhaps it's in a later edition.
-Henriette)
In
fevers showing an obscure periodicity lycopodium has been found
curative. The cases are not distinctly agues nor ordinary
intermittents, and consequently not influenced by quinine. The
febrile phenomena are not active, and there may be an irritable
stomach, with either diarrhoea, dysentery, or constipation, an
obscure colic being associated with the latter, and some sore throat.
The fever, though not active, is intractable, and exceedingly
depressing, and the characteristic symptoms guiding the selection of
lycopodium are a high-colored red urine staining the clothing, and an
afternoon exacerbation, usually occurring in the middle of the
afternoon.
Lycopodium
is an efficient gastric sedative, and with the high-colored red
urine, and the patient suffering more in the afternoon, will be found
of value in dyspepsia, and especially if constipation and cardiac
palpitation are also present. There is tenderness over the stomach
and a sense of fullness. Pyrosis, with flatulence, is corrected by
it, and in indigestion, with fermentative changes and borborygmus, it
should be remembered when the special indications above alluded to
are present. It is reputed useful in catarrhal gastritis.
Lycopodium
is prominent as a remedy in urinary disorders. Spasmodic retention of
urine in children, and catarrhal cystitis in adults, with deposits of
mucus or mucus and blood, with frequent painful micturition, are
disorders in which it has rendered good service. It is a remedy for
the lithic acid diathesis, when there is pain in the kidneys,
ureters, and bladder, with unpleasant sensations in micturition, and
there are red, sandy deposits in the urine. Gonorrhoea, gleet,
vesical catarrh, and rheumatism with uric acid diathesis, are said to
be benefited by lycopodium. Dr. Scudder recommended the tincture of
the plant in chronic kidney diseases with blood in the urine; and in
cases of "cough with bloody expectoration, congestive headache,
dizziness, and tendency to syncope." The usual method of
administering lycopodium for its specific effects is as follows: Rx
Specific lycopodium, gtt. x; aqua, fl℥iv. Mix. Sig. Dose, a
teaspoonful every 1 or 2 hours.
Specific
Indications and Uses.—Intractable forms of fever, not of an active
type, showing obscure periodicity, with afternoon exacerbation, and
the voiding of a high-colored red urine, staining the clothing;
dyspepsia and indigestion with the same urinary symptoms, or with
red, sandy deposits in the urine, palpitation, constipation,
borborygmus, and water brash; spasmodic retention of urine in
children; cystic catarrh in adults, with painful micturition; urine
loaded with mucus or blood, or both, or deposits of red sand or
phosphates; cough with bloody expectoration, congestive headache,
dizziness, and tendency to fainting.
Plants
for A Future states:
Lycopodium
clavatum
A
decoction of the plant is analgesic, antirheumatic, carminative,
mildly diuretic, stomachic and tonic. It is used internally in the
treatment of urinary and kidney disorders, rheumatic arthritis,
catarrhal cystitis, gastritis etc. It is applied externally to skin
diseases and irritations. The plant can be harvested all year round
and is used fresh or dried. The spores of this plant are
antipruritic, decongestant, diuretic and stomachic. They are applied
externally as a dusting powder to various skin diseases, to wounds or
inhaled to stop bleeding noses. They can also be used to absorb
fluids from injured tissues. The spores are harvested when ripe in
late summer. The spores can also be used as a dusting powder to
prevent pills sticking together. A homeopathic remedy is made from
the spores. It has a wide range of applications including dry coughs,
mumps and rheumatic pains.
Known
hazards of Lycopodium clavatum: The plant contains lycopodine, which
is poisonous by paralysing the motor nerves. It also contains
clavatine which is toxic to many mammals. The spores, however, are
not toxic.
Lycopodium
complanatum
A
decoction of the plant is analgesic, antirheumatic, carminative,
mildly diuretic, stomachic and tonic. It is used internally in the
treatment of urinary and kidney disorders, catarrhal cystitis,
gastritis etc. It is applied externally to skin diseases and
irritations. The plant can be harvested all year round and is used
fresh or dried. The spores of this plant are antipruritic,
decongestant, diuretic and stomachic. They are applied externally as
a dusting powder to various skin diseases, to wounds or inhaled to
stop bleeding noses. They can also be used to absorb fluids from
injured tissues. The spores are harvested when ripe in late summer.
The spores can also be used as a dusting powder to prevent pills
sticking together. A homeopathic remedy is made from the spores. It
has a wide range of applications including dry coughs, mumps and
rheumatic pains.
Known
hazards of Lycopodium complanatum: The plant contains lycopodine,
which is poisonous by paralysing the motor nerves. It also contains
clavatine which is toxic to many mammals. The spores, however, are
not toxic.
Lycopodium
obscurum
The
plant is analgesic, antispasmodic, blood tonic, diuretic and tonic. A
decoction has been used as a herbal steam in the treatment of
rheumatism. The spores of this plant are dusted on wounds or inhaled
to stop bleeding noses. They can also be used to absorb fluids from
injured tissues. The spores can be used as a dusting powder to
prevent pills sticking together.
Known
hazards of Lycopodium obscurum: The plant contains lycopodine, which
is poisonous by paralysing the motor nerves. It also contains
clavatine which is toxic to many mammals. The spores, however, are
not toxic.
Lycopodium
selago
The
plant is hypnotic. Chewing three stems is said to induce mild
intoxication whilst eight can cause unconsciousness. The plant has
been used as a fast-acting emetic and purgative. A poultice of the
whole plant has been applied to the head in the treatment of
headaches. A homeopathic remedy is made from the whole plant,
collected during the summer. It is used as a laxative and to kill
worms.
Known
hazards of Lycopodium selago: The plant is an active narcotic poison.
Lycopodium
serratum
Known
hazards of Lycopodium serratum: The plant contains lycopodine, which
is poisonous by paralysing the motor nerves. It also contains
clavatine which is toxic to many mammals. The spores, however, are
not toxic.
The
Physicians’ Desk Reference for Herbal Medicine states:
Club
Moss has a diuretic effect.
In
folk medicine, it is used internally for bladder and kidney
complaints, also for pharyngeal catarrh and tonsillitis, menstruation
complaints, rheumatism, and impotence; externally for wounds, itching
and suppurating eczema of the skin.
Homeopathic
Uses: Herb and spores are used in liver and gallbladder complaints,
general blood poisoning, inflammation of the respiratory tract,
disorders of the intestinal tract, varicose veins, metabolic
diseases, chronic and acute skin conditions, inflammation of the
female genital organs and menstruation complaints, as well as
behavioral and mood disturbances.
No
health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the
proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Irritations
should be expected with extended use of the drug.
So,
it is safe? Used externally, there seems to be no danger. Should it
be used internally? Well, likely, yes in reasonable doses... if you
use the right Lycopodium... but, just to be safe, I will give it a
maybe... beware of common names! Many herbs can be toxic in
unreasonably large doses. Thujone is found in Wormwood, Yarrow,
Tansy and Sage, but these are herbs few herbalists would be without!
Comfrey and Sassafras contain substances that could cause cancer...
but, these herbs have been used medicinally for countless
generations. How can this be? Well, look closer at the studies and
you generally find circumstances which would be hard to recreate by
any reasonable person... lab rats given such high doses, in such high
concentrations of the herb that it would be the equivalent of a human
drinking 20 gallons or more of the tea, daily for 20 years! Sure,
that is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point. Banning an
herb like sassafras based on fairly ridiculous "studies" in
lab conditions that would be almost impossible to recreate in the
real world... while approving countless pharmaceutical drugs that
have side effects like "sudden death", seems less than
reasonable to me. But, I'm not giving any advice - make your own
informed choices.
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The information on this site is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Nothing on this site has been evaluated or approved by the FDA. I am not a doctor. The US government does not recognize the practice of herbal medicine and their is no governing body regulating herbalists. Therefore, I'm just a guy who studies herbs. I am not offering any advice. I won't even claim that anything I write is accurate or true! I can tell you what herbs have "traditionally been used for." I can tell you my own experience and if I believe an herb helped me. I cannot, nor would I tell you to do the same. If you use any herb I, or anyone else, mentions you are treating yourself. You take full responsibility for your health. Humans are individuals and no two are identical. What works for me may not work for you. You may have an allergy, sensitivity or underlying condition that no one else shares and you don't even know about. Be careful with your health. By continuing to read my blog you agree to be responsible for yourself, do your own research, make your own choices and not to blame me for anything, ever.
