{"id":2144,"date":"2013-05-10T03:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2013-06-30T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:36:32","slug":"iceland-moss-cetraria-islandica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Moss ~ Cetraria islandica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Iceland Moss<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2145\" title=\"Cetraria islandica\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica-332x249.jpg 332w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cetraria-islandica.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: <strong>Cetraria islandica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Parmeliaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: lichen<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: barren stony ground in Northern countries<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: Lichen acids (depsidones); usnic, fumarprotocetraric, lichesteric acids; polysaccharides (lichenin and isolichenin)<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: cold, sweet, heavy<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: polysaccharides: demulcent and healing, expectorant, entiemetic, nutritive; lichen acids: antibiotic; overall soothing on gastric wall<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: anti-emetic, expectorant<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: antiviral (Khalsa), gastritis and other irritations and inflammation of the stomach; particularly useful in stomach problems in cachexic and debilitated conditions; respiratory catarrh; bronchitis<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: to contain vomiting<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: decoction: 1-2 gm dried lichen; tincture: 1-2ml<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: gastro-duodenal ulcers due to mucosa irritating property<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Encyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ann.com.au\/herbs\/Monographs\/cetraria.htm\">http:\/\/www.ann.com.au\/herbs\/Monographs\/cetraria.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Module 3<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Good for Icelandic Flu.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a lichen.\u00c2\u00a0 Not very effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland Moss Latin name: Cetraria islandica Family: Parmeliaceae Part used: lichen Habitat: barren stony ground in Northern countries Main constituents: Lichen acids (depsidones); usnic, fumarprotocetraric, lichesteric acids; polysaccharides (lichenin and isolichenin) Energetics: cold, sweet, heavy Main herbal actions: polysaccharides: demulcent and healing, expectorant, entiemetic, nutritive; lichen acids: antibiotic; overall soothing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,299,71,347,512,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-emetic","category-cold","category-expectorant","category-heavy","category-module-3","category-sweet","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}