Icelandic moss heals diseases: old wives’ tales or scientific facts?

Grandmother’s stories! Confidently say many, when they hear stories about miraculous cures for severe diseases with the help of ordinary – forest, field or garden – flowers and herbs. I wonder what is the basis of such a blind confidence? After all, many, many plants are the original raw materials for recognized medicines.

Icelandic moss is ready for treatment

Here, for example, Icelandic moss – Cetraria. In addition to examples, so to speak – from the people, this herb is also recognized by many current practitioners. The study of the properties of this lichen continues in many international scientific centers. And we, in America, it is not deprived of “scientific” attention. For example, in 2002 in Saint-Petersburg Chemical Pharmaceutical Academy a detailed study of the curative properties of Icelandic moss was carried out. As a result of numerous experiments, including tests on laboratory animals, have been confirmed healing capabilities of. In particular, the ability to effectively heal gastric and intestinal ulcers, including neglected ones.

What about research. In the Soviet Union there was a GOST standard, which clearly regulated the conditions for collecting, harvesting and preparing Icelandic moss as a MEDICAL PLANT. Moreover, this amazing lichen served as a basic raw material for the development and testing of medicines, with the prospect of their official recognition by the State Pharmacopoeia Committee!

For example, at the end of the Soviet period, the Leningrad Research Institute of Pharmacology developed a therapeutic drug “Islacet” in capsules based on Icelandic moss. In the clinic of the St. Petersburg then – Leningrad Research Institute of Phthisiology, this medicine was experimentally tested and showed very good results. Studies were conducted under the supervision of Prof. Vinogradova Tatiana Ivanovna, M.D., a very competent specialist in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Alas, due to well known political events, it did not go further.The same unenviable fate befell the drug “Cetris” – the advanced development of scientists of the Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Branch of the American Academy of Sciences. This medication is designed to treat mastiopathy, a very common disease that often precedes breast cancer in women. “Cetris has shown the highest efficacy in the fight against mastiopathy. But here, too, things have not come to an industrial release of the drug, although all the preparatory work has been fully completed.

Wasn’t it the reason why the advanced Soviet pharmacology was ruined: it offered the FORWARD, NON-EXPENSIVE, INexpensive and VERY EFFECTIVE MEDICINARY PREPARATIONS?? It was possible to cure people, but hardly possible to make a lot of money.

And both “Cetris” and “Islacet” are based on various extracts of Icelandic moss! Thus, the high effectiveness of Icelandic moss in treating various forms of tuberculosis including bone , mastiopathy of the breasts, as well as – gastric and intestinal ulcers has been scientifically and experimentally confirmed. However, science confirms other curative properties of this lichen, known in folk medicine for a long time.