lycopo'dium

[G. lykos, wolf, + pous(pod-), foot.] (U.S.) Vegetable sulphur, the spores of Lycopodium clavatum and other species of L., club-mo , a yellow, tastele , and odorle powder; employed as a dusting powder and in pharmacy to prevent the agglutination of pills in a box. It is employed in eclectic practice In the treatment of dyspepsia, catarrhal cystitis, spasmodic retention of urine In children, congestive headache, vertigo, and boils. In doses of 11J15—10 (0.3-0.6) of the specific preparation every hour. In homeopathic practice it Is employed for pyrosis, constipation, brick-dust deposit In the urine, jaundice, and impotence, in the 30th potency.