- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Lycopodiaceae
- English Names
- Club Moss
- Wolf's claw
- Vegetable Sulphur
- Creeping Jennie
- Natural Habitat
- Europe (especially Russia)
- Finland
- Asia
- North America
- China
- Japan
- all over the world
- Part(s) Used
- Herba Lycopodii = Herba Musci clavati
- Semen Lycopodii = Sulphur vegetabile (the spores)
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- Constituent(s)
- herb: lycopodin
- fatty oil
- acids
- gum
- resin; seed (the spores): fixed oil (containing alumina and phosphoric acid)
- cane sugar
- methylamine
- sporonin
- acids
- gum
- resin
- Action
- herb: laxative
- diuretic
- carminative
- emmenagogue; seed (the spores of the fresh plant): antispasmodic
- diuretic
- The spores must be triturated before its properties are released. As a dusting powder for skin diseases and skin eruptions the seeds are most helpful. The seeds are also used to make artificial lightning in theatres and firework
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