Latin, Lycopodium inflexum, Muscus clavatus, M. squamosus vulgaris, M. terrestris repens, M. ursinus, Pes leoninus, P. ursinus ;
English, Club moss, Stag’s horn, Witch meal, Wolf’s claw, Vegetable sulphur;
French, Soufre vegetal ;
German, Barlappsamen.
An evergreen trailing plant, with root of several strong, scattered
fibers, resembling a wolf’s foot. The stem creeps extensively, and
gives off at intervals solitary, straight, simple, wiry shoots, with
very leafy ascending branches, the fertile terminating in a slender
peduncle, bearing two or three linear cylindrical spikes. The leaves
are numerous, small, persistent for many years, scattered, incurved
linear and light-green. The brown flowers appear in July and August
in erect spikes, mostly in pairs, each composed of an axis and many
closely appressed scales. In the axils of the scales are very minute,
more or less flattened, reniform, coriaceous, one-celled spores,
forming together a pale-yellow powder. This powder is inodorous,
tasteless, floating on and not wet by water, showing under the
microscope four-sided reticulated granules with short projections
on the edges ; under long-continued trituration, whereby the shell
of the spores is broken, it becomes a lightish-brown unctuous mass.
Found in :-
Dry woods and hilly pastures of Europe. India, Himalayas and the United States of America; especially northward.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Hahnemann, Chron. Krank, ist ed. in 1828. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VI. 1 ; X. 577.)
The spores.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Lycopodium | 100 gm
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Strong alcohol, a sufficient quantity. |
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
(c) Triturations: 1x and higher. The 1x and 2x should be freshly made and thoroughly triturated.
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