Club Moss

Includes comparative data for Lycopodium alkaloids.] FINAL NOTE Club moss is a living relic of an unimaginably ancient plant lineage, carrying in its creeping stems and golden spore dust the biochemical legacy of forests that predated the dinosaurs by a hundred million years. It asks for respectful, moderate use in return for its gentle gifts to the kidneys, the digestion, and the aging mind. In an age of aggressive pharmaceutical interventions, there is something both humbling and reassuring about a remedy whose evolutionary pedigree is measured in geological epochs, quietly doing its work on the forest floor as it has since long before our species existed.