MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 261 took the form of application to the eyes direct, but in Shropshire i ...

mander speedwell (Ve ronica chamaedrys), a known jaundice herb (including in that county.) Pedicularis palustris Linnaeus marsh ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 263 Lentibulariaceae Pinguicula vulgaris Linnaeus common butterwort, bog ...

264 Notes Gregory IFC S 837: 125 IFC S 484: 219 IFC S 572: 69 IFC S 752: 223 IFC S 736: 190 IFC S 690: 114 Maloney Maloney Malo ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 265 Maloney IFC S 655: 356 IFC S 849: 315 Ó Súilleabháin, 314 Purdon Mo ...

IFC S 385: 56 Moore MS ‘Ó Clara’, 35 Fargher Yonge, 226 Friend 1882 Bryant, 117 Johnson 1862 Maloney Hayward Maloney McKay, 116 ...

267 8 CHAPTER 14 Bedstraws, Valerian and Scabious Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Rubiales (Rubi- a ...

Galium verum Linnaeus lady’s bedstraw Europe, western Asia; introduced into North America Though common over much of the British ...

  Bedstraws, Valerian and Scabious 269 was derived from the herbals (in which the plant was recommended for this purpos ...

270 Galium aparine folk^20 ), the second of which in ‘some English country districts’ unspecified has extended to drinking the j ...

  Bedstraws, Valerian and Scabious 271 and related complaints such as erysipelas and ringworm on the other hand exhibit ...

272 Sambucus nigra Somerset^40 ), dropsy and kidney trouble (Cambridgeshire,^41 Berwickshire,^42 Fife^43 ), toothache (Devon,^44 ...

allegedly sometimes employed for dropsy and rheumatic pains in the early nineteenth century.^67 All the evidence seems to indica ...

Lonicera caprifolium Linnaeus goat-leaf honeysuckle central and southern Europe, Asia Minor; introduced into western Europe, Nor ...

worth anything, if setwall were not at one end: whereupon some woman poet or other hath made these verses: They that will have t ...

The heads of the plant were formerly in demand as well in ‘various parts of England’^109 (and sold in London in Covent Garden ma ...

  Bedstraws, Valerian and Scabious 277 surely have been scabies (hence ‘scabious’), too. If devil’s-bit also has an asp ...

278 Succisa pratensis The Irish uses have shared the same dominant theme: ‘sores such as boils’ in Mayo^124 and—assuming this wa ...

  Bedstraws, Valerian and Scabious 279 Deering, 46 Parkinson, 1461 IFC S 170: 256 Ó hEithir McClafferty IFC S 876: 240 ...

280 8 CHAPTER 15 Daisies Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order Asterales and family Asteraceae (thistles, daisies and the ...