Iodine rich Irish Moss is a nourishing, easily digestible strengthener, useful as a bronchial soother and easy digestant for gastritis and similar digestive upset.

It is an excellent food for convalescents. May be boiled in water, milk or soup, and flavored or sweetened to taste.

It is also a mucilaginous soother for an inflamed urinary tract.

Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'It contains a large amount of mucilage with the presence of a big percentage of sulphur compounds. Demulcent, emollient, nutritive.'

'A popular remedy made into a jelly for pulmonary complaints and kidney and bladder affections. Can be combined with cocoa. The decoction is made by steeping ½ oz. of the Moss in cold water for 15 minutes and then boiling it in 3 pints of milk or water for 10 or 15 minutes, after which it is strained and seasoned with liquorice, lemon or cinnamon and sweetened to taste. It can be taken freely.'

King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'A decoction of Irish moss, with water or milk, is very nutritious, and may be used as a demulcent in chronic affections of the air passages, chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, scrofula, rickets, enlarged mesenteric glands, irritation of the bladder and kidneys, etc.'

'As a culinary article it may be employed in the preparation of jellies, white soup, blanc mange, etc. The decoction is prepared as follows: Macerate ½ ounce of carrageen in cold or warm water, during 10 minutes; then boil in 3 pints of water, or milk if stronger nourishment is desired, for a quarter of an hour. Strain through linen. Sugar, lemon-juice, tincture of orange-peel, essence of lemon, or other aromatics, as cinnamon or nutmeg, may be employed as flavoring ingredients.'