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Medicinal plants (PG 101)                                        Level 1                              Clinical Pharmacy-PharmD



                                      Lycopodium Spores                                 Kamala



                             Lycopodium  consists  of  the  ripe  Kamala consists of the trichomes,
                             spores  of  the  common  clubmoss,  and  glands  separated  from  the
                             Lycopodium            clavatum         L.  fruits  of  Mallotus  philippinensis
                             (Lycopodiaceae).                            (Euphorbiaceae), a tree found in

                                                                         India and Pakistan.
                             •  Lycopodium is a pale yellow, fine,  •  It occurs as a dull reddish-brown

                                 extremely mobile powder without             powder without odor or taste.
                                 odor or taste.
                                                                         •  Kamala consists of glands and
                             •  It  floats  on  water  without  being

                                 wetted.  Blown  into  a  flame,  it         trichomes.  The  glands  are  of
                                 burns  instantly  with  a  brilliant        sub-globular  shape  and  are
                                 flash.
             Characters      •  The spores are very resistant to             filled  with  a  deep  red  resin,

                                 pressure  and  unaffected  by               secreted by a number of club-
                                 dilute acids and alkalis.                   shaped  cells  radiating  from  a


                                                                             common center.









                             Lycopodium  spores  contain  fixed  oil  1-             Anthelmintic

            Constituents  (50%).         The     drug     also    contains  phloroglucinol derivatives
                             phytosterin,      alkaloid      (lycopodine)  (rottlerin and isorottlerin).
                             together with traces of nicotine.                2-  Resins (65%).

                             ▪  As dusting powder and in manufacture  ▪  Treatment              of    tapeworm
                                 of medicated snuffs and pills.                  infestation.
                             ▪  Employed as a standard of reference in        ▪  Treating poultry.
                 Uses            quantitative  microscopy  (an  assay

                                 method used to evaluate the crude
                                 drugs when other physical becomes

                                 not applicable).
                             ▪  In manufacture of fireworks.

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