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Darrera modificació: 2022-09-21
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Duffin, Christopher, "'The periwig of a dead cranium': medicinal skull moss", Pharmaceutical Historian, 52/3 (2022), 75-85.
- Resum
- Usnea or Muscus ex Craneo Humano, the moss growing on a human skull was ascribed therapeutic potential from the mid-sixteenth century onwards. It was suggested that the vital force became concentrated in the skulls of individuals who had died violent and premature deaths. Th e Paracelsians believed that macrocosmic forces seeded moss onto exposed skull surfaces and that the plant possessed special sympathetic healing virtues. Usnea was a fundamental ingredient of the Weapon Salve, which was reputed to be able to heal remotely over large distances. Skull moss was also used to treat epilepsy, a wide range of haemorrhagic conditions, dysentery and oedema. Historical specimens survive in some materia medica collections.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
- URL
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363680765_ ...
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