Club Moss is also known by the names Vegetable Sulphur and Wolf's Claw. Club Moss is found all over the world. The part of this small vascular plant used for health benefits are 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 spikes. The spores are collected chiefly in Great Britain, Russia, Germany and Switzerland, the tops of the plants being cut as the spikes approach maturity. The spores of Club Moss are gathered and sold as "lycopodium powder," or "vegetable sulfur," a highly inflammable yellow powder sometimes used for nutraceutical or scientific purposes (e.g., as an absorptive powder) and in fireworks.
The whole plant was used by ancient physicians as a stomachic and diuretic, mainly for 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, diarrhea, dysentery, and complaints resulting in the suppression of urine. As a nervine, Club Moss was used in spasms and hydrophobia, as an aperient in cases of gout and scurvy, as a corroborant in joint pain, and also as an application to wounds. They have been prescribed for irritability of the bladder, in the form of a liquid extract, which was official in the United States Pharmacopoeia.
The spores are still medicinally employed by herbalists, both internally and externally, as a dusting powder in various skin problems such as eczema and erysipelas, and for excoriated surfaces, or to help avoid chafing in infants. Their chief pharmaceutical use is as a pill powder. They have such a strong water repellent power that, if the hand is powdered with them, it can be dipped in water without becoming wet. This is an herb also used on wounds to help support bleeding. It can still used by herbalists today to help support minor skin wounds. For gout and joint pain, even if the joints are deformed, and for chronic constipation and piles, Club Moss tea is often recommended. However, people who suffer from diarrhea should use the tea only with the greatest caution as cramps in the intestines could develop. The tea is also 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 tissues of the liver, even if malignant, Club Moss is considered indispensable.
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Stir 1/4 of a teaspoon into a glass of water and consume 3 times daily, with meals.
If your baby does not have alergic skin, this powder is great at keeping wet places dry and is the only effective solution to help relieve bad diaper rash and even fungy!
Thanks to Lycopodium powder, I never had to refill any baby prescription after 10 months
-- January 17, 2008
Also Recommended: When My baby got both fungy and major diaper rash at the same time, we got rid of it in two day by alternating between regular Zincofax and about a tea spoon Lycopodium powder aplied directly. Fungy cream replace the zincofax for the first chage of the day.
Any good pharmacist will tell you to keep your baby Dry or even naked to accelerate healing for both sicness, Lycopodium powder is even better at keaping baby dry!
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