Iceland moss is used for alleviative affliction of the aperture and throat, accident of appetite, accepted cold, dry cough, bronchitis, indigestion, fevers, lung disease, branch and float complaints, and the addiction against infection.
Some humans administer Iceland moss anon to ailing healing wounds.
In foods, Iceland moss is used as an emergency aliment antecedent in Iceland.
In manufacturing, Iceland moss is used as a additive in alcoholic beverages.
Iceland Moss is not, however, in abundant demand, and even in Iceland it is alone occasionally used to accomplish folk medicines, and in a few acceptable dishes. In beforehand times, it was abundant added broadly used in breads, porridges, soups etc. Cetraric acerbic or cetrarin, a white micro-crystalline powder with a absinthian taste, is readily acrid in alcohol, and hardly acrid in baptize and ether. It has been recommended for alleviative use by another medicine sites, in doses of 2 to 4 grains (0.1 to 0.25 grams), as a absinthian analeptic and aperient. Iceland Moss is commonly used to abate chest ailments, affliction of the articulate and pharyngeal close membranes and to abolish dry cough.