Powdered Bulk Herbs – Irish Moss Powder

Powdered Bulk Herbs Irish Moss is used to make carrageenan in industrial quantities.

Demulcent, emollient, nutritive. A popular remedy made into a jelly for pulmonary complaints and kidney and bladder affections. Can be combined with cocoa. The decoction is made by steeping 1/2 OZ. of the Moss in cold water for 15 minutes and then boiling it in 3 pints of milk or water for 10 or 15 minutes, after which it is strained and seasoned with liquorice, lemon or cinnamon and sweetened to taste. It can be taken freely.

The carrageen or Irish moss of commerce (muscus carragenicus) consists of fronds, which are usually from two to three or four inches long, dry, crisp, mostly yellowish or dirty white, but intermixed with purplish red portions, inodorous, or nearly so, with a mucilaginous taste. The frond is formed internally of three strata; the inner, of densely packed longitudinal fibres; the medial, of small roundish cells; the outer, of vertical, coloured, moniliform filaments

In warm water, the dried commercial frond swells up, and, when boiled, almost entirely dissolves. If the swollen and partially dissolved frond be examined by the microscope, it is seen to consist of very minute, somewhat fusiform cohering cells. A calcareous meshy crust (consisting of various species of Flustra) is frequently found on the frond.

Chondrus mamillosus is found in commercial carrageen. Some samples I found to be principally composed of this species [See, also, Henschel in Dierbach, Die neuesten Entdeck. in d. Mat. Med. Bd. ii S. 276, 1843.]. The frond of this plant is more or less channelled; but the species is best distinguished by the fructification; in Ch. crispus the subhemispherical capsules are imbedded in the disk of the frond, producing a depression on the opposite side

Latin Name:
Chondrus crispus

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Carragheen, Carrageenan, Sea Moss

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GRAS: Generally Recognized as Safe. This herb can be safely consumed when used appropriately.

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