MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition
seen this species growing abundantly in Somerset and that it was effective as a diuretic, was misread by John Parkinson^73 as im ...
202 Menyanthes trifoliata Menyanthes trifoliata, bogbean (Green 1902, fig. 424) and English ones limited—Sussex,^86 Kent (?),^87 ...
Gentians and Nightshades 203 sively Scottish has been the use of a decoction of the root for easing the pain of a sto ...
204 Notes McClafferty Moore 1898; Fargher Spence Jamieson Duncan & Robson, 65 Duddridge Baker, 52 Britten & Holland, 13 ...
Gentians and Nightshades 205 IFC S 1121: 354 IFC S 657: 160 IFC S 617: 334 IFC S 484: 43 Vickery MSS IFC S 657: 216 ...
206 8 CHAPTER 12 Comfrey, Vervain and Mints Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order Lamiales and families Boragi- naceae (b ...
Echium vulgare Linnaeus viper’s-bugloss Europe, Asia Minor; introduced into North America, Australasia An infusion of the leaves ...
from which records have been traced of a presumably age-old belief that the reddish form must be used for healing men and the wh ...
Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 209 would fall into that category. The 56 records remaining can be classified for the most ...
Anchusa arvensis (Linnaeus) M. Bieberstein Lycopsis arvensis Linnaeus bugloss Europe, western Asia; introduced into North Americ ...
Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 211 ‘country herb-doctors’ as a remedy for both external and internal cancers.^45 The plan ...
212 Verbena officinalis no claim to be considered indigenous in Ireland, it is not surprising that only one other record of its ...
Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 213 for purifying the blood, in Cumbria^65 for curing indigestion and in Somer- set^66 for ...
214 Stachys by the Society of Arts for demonstrating the palatability of the roots ofS. palustris.^71 Hybrids that are more or l ...
Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 215 Leonurus cardiaca Linnaeus motherwort Europe; introduced into North America, New Zeala ...
216 Lamium purpureum Essex as a treatment for piles^94 (and elsewhere in East Anglia it features as a cure for certain diseases ...
Teucrium scorodonia Linnaeus wood sage, wild sage, mountain sage, heath sage southern, western and central Europe; introduced in ...
‘bad stomachs’ and biliousness,^106 but more usually it has served to counter rheumatism, as in one district of Gloucestershire^ ...
menstruation.^133 Smelling powerfully like garlic, it was also used ‘by the peas- antry’ as a vermicide, according to a later so ...
220 Glechoma hederacea later,^141 that custom had gradually disappeared, following the arrival of hops (Humulus lupulus); he acc ...
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