Cetraria islandica
Plant · Parmeliaceae
Cetraria islandica is suited to emaciated, debilitated persons suffering from chronic consumptive conditions, scrofulous states, and persistent digestive weakness. It is particularly useful in phthisis with copious expectoration and chronic diarrhea of consumptives.
Key symptoms
- Bitter slimy taste with nausea from fetid taste and smell
- Feels full and satisfied after eating very little
- Habitual vomiting with chronic diarrhea especially in consumptives
- Tickling and spasmodic feeling in windpipe on waking
- Copious expectoration including all kinds of bloody expectoration
- Frequent catarrhs with weak lungs
- Emaciation in debilitated persons
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.
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