Club Moss

History:

Club Moss is a moss-like evergreen plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles, and despite the name, it is not technically a moss; but rather, it is a plant allied to ferns. Like fern, it is flowerless and seedless and has true leaves, stems and roots. Club Moss is a descendant of primitive plants that once dominated the Earth, growing nearly one hundred feet in height during the Carboniferous Era of about 360-286 million years ago. The vast amounts of Club Moss vegetation that decayed has greatly contributed to the coal deposits we know today. Modern Club Moss, which is a creeping plant, is much smaller in size, usually growing no higher than four inches or longer than ten feet and thrives in wet-to-moist, well-drained, loamy soils in woodlands, dappled shade, or even deep shade, in a humid atmosphere. Club Moss does not propagate by seeds, but rather by single-celled propagules, or spores, and the species herein described (L. clavatum) is a rather advanced vascular plant that has specialized fluid-conducting tissues and produces a cluster of strobiles at the shoot apex, which increase the number of spores that can be produced. Club Moss is found throughout the world, but the spores used in herbal preparations and commercial purposes are chiefly collected in Russia, Germany and Switzerland in July and August. The tops of the plants are cut when the spikes approach maturity, and the spores (yellow powder) are shaken out of the kidney-shaped capsules (or sporangia) that grow on the inner side of the bracts covering the fruit spike and are separated by a sieve. The whole plant was used by physicians of the Middle Ages as a stomachic and diuretic, mainly for kidney stones and calculus, but the spores do not appear to have been used alone until the seventeenth century, when the herb was employed as a sedative, antispasmodic and diuretic for urinary health and dropsy (edema). It was officially listed in the United States Pharmacopœia for the bladder. It is interesting to note that the whole plant contains two toxic substances: lycopodine, which paralyzes motor nerves, and clavatine; but the spores, which are used today in herbal therapy, are totally non-toxic. Club Moss has widely valued commercial applications. The spores are strongly water-resistant and are used to coat medicine tablets to prevent adhesion to one another when placed in containers or to confine a bad tasting medicine inside the pill. It is such a powerful water-repellant that it is claimed when a hand is coated with the powder, it will not become wet when dipped in water. The dried spores of Club Moss are also used in dusting powders for the skin and to dress moulds in iron foundries; and interestingly, the dried spores ignite explosively and have been used to produce fireworks, flash powder and theatrical flame effects.

Recommended Dosage:
Take one (1) capsule, one (1) time each day with water at an early to midday mealtime.

Contraindications:
Overuse (many times the recommended dosage) of Club Moss Herbal Supplement may cause griping or grumbling pains in the intestinal tract.

Capsule Information:
Our Club Moss supplements are encapsulated in 100% Gluten-free, Vegetable Cellulose, Certified Kosher, size "00" Capsules.(click here for size comparison) Each capsule contains approximately 600 mgs.

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