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Selaginella pulvinata, Chu srin sder mo ཆུ་སྲིན་སྡེར་མོ

Spikemoss
Chu srin sder mo (Tibetan Medicine)
Juan Bai (TCM)
Hatha Jodi (Ayurveda)
Selaginella tamariscina
Gartenflora [E. von Regel], vol. 28 (1879)

Botanical name:
Selaginella spp.
  1. S. pulvinata (syn. S. japonica, Lycopodium pulvinata, L. involvens) (Tibetan Medicine, TCM)
  2. S. tamariscina (TCM)
  3. S. rupestris (India)
  4. S. wallichii (India)
  5. S. willdenovii (India)

Parts used:
Dried Herb, roots removed, washed and dried; carbonised to stop Bleeding

Temperature & Taste:
Neutral. Pungent

Uses:
1. Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation: (TCM, Ayurveda)
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea
-Hot and Cold diseases of the Uterus with pain; Infertility (Divine Farmers Materia Medica)
-Abdominal masses; Blood stasis, with hardness and masses (TCM, Ayurveda)
-Cancer (anti-cancer effects demonstrated)
-used as a tonic after Childbirth (India)
-Hemorrhoids (Tibetan Medicine)
-Trauma, Bruising (TCM)

2. Clear Blood Stasis, Stop Bleeding: (TCM, Ayurveda)
-Hemoptysis, Blood in the Stool
-abnormal uterine bleeding, hematochezia
-prolapse of rectum; Bleeding Piles (TCM, Ayurveda)
-the carbonised herb is used for this function

3. Clears Heat, Resists Poison: (Ayurveda)
-Fever, Headache
-Skin diseases
-Lung and Urinary Infections
-Jaundice, Hepatitis

4. Tonic: (TCM, Ayurveda)
-regarded as a longevity tonic (TCM, Ayurveda)
-also used for Asthma (TCM)


DOSE:
3–9 grams in Decoction
1–3 grams in Powder

COMMENT:
Related species are used in Ayurveda, TCM and TIbetan Medicine. 

PREPARATION:
  Stew in salt water for half a day, then stew in well water, then remove and dry in the sun.
  This is a traditional preparation rarely used today. (Li Shi Zhen)

Main Combinations:
1. Hemorrhoids, Selaginella. pulvinata, Holarrhena, Withania, Embelia ribes, Tribulus (Tibetan Medicine)

Major Formulas:

Cautions:
Not used during Pregnancy

Main Preparations used:
Carbonised herb