Cetraria Islandica

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Iceland Moss. N. O. Lichenes. Decoction and tincture.

Clinical

Atrophy / Catarrh / Diarrhœa / Phthisis / Scrofulous emaciation / Scurvy / Ulcers

Characteristics

Cetraria has been used in decoction and as a food, and has been found curative empirically in the diseases named above. Symptoms indicating its use are: Bitter slimy taste. Feels full and satisfied after eating a little. Habitual vomiting. Chronic diarrhœa (of consumptives). Frequent catarrhs. Tickling and spasmodic feeling in windpipe on waking. Copious expectoration. Fetid taste and smell causing nausea. All kinds of bloody expectoration. Weak lungs. Emaciated people.

Relations

Compare: Sticta pul.

Cetraria Islandica across the other classic books

Cetraria Islandica appears in 2 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Iceland Moss. Lichenes. The well-known Iceland moss, growing in large quantities in Alaska, recommended to the Old School since 1674 by Olaf Borrichius, Hiaren and other, is prepared by decoction. Hahnemann calls it, in Lesser Writings, translated by Dudgeon, p. 257, in comparison with the woody sexatilis, the…”

Cetraria Islandica in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cetraria Islandica in 1 rubric.

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