MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Daisies 281 Arctium lappa Linnaeus, greater burdock (Fuchs 1543, fig. 40) (Berwickshire,^4 Colonsay in the Inner Hebr ...

between any of the other uses of burdock recorded from Britain: for jaundice (South Uist in the Outer Hebrides^10 ), urinary com ...

others—‘blessed thistle’, ‘lady’s thistle’ and ‘speckled thistle’—are indicative ofSilybum marianum,even though that is quite ra ...

284 Centaurea cyanus John Gerard^46 and, though mentioned in at least one later herbal, seems more likely to have been a folk us ...

  Daisies 285 ever, be the ‘horse knaps’ that has found favour for rheumatism in Furness.^61 Peculiar to Essex, apparen ...

Sonchus oleraceus Linnaeus smooth sow-thistle cosmopolitan Sonchus arvensis, S. asper and S. oleraceus,three common weeds of cul ...

a gash made by the hoof or teeth of a hog.^72 Also, to the seventeenth-century English antiquarian John Aubrey we owe an unlocal ...

and respiratory troubles includes a large number for ‘consumption’, all 25 for the last of these Irish. If the British and Irish ...

  Daisies 289 Pilosella officinarum F. W.Schultz & Schultz ‘Bipontinus’ Hieracium pilosella Linnaeus mouse-ear hawk ...

290 Pilosella officinarum narum has been a widely favoured herb for coughs, especially whooping cough, and throat infections in ...

mentioned the species now known asFilago vulgarisunder a different name, others^128 have assumed he meant the latter nonetheless ...

292 Inula helenium bornly in semi-wild conditions. Probably a native of central Asia, it was much valued by the Romans and the A ...

A veterinary medicine as much as a human one, the plant’s roots contain a white starchy powder extracted by boiling, which has b ...

Lythrum salicaria,took its place?) but the treatment of wounds may never have been one of its functions in the British Isles fol ...

  Daisies 295 unique in finding a use for stomach and/or liver complaints.^167 It is especially in applying this plant ...

296 Tanacetum vulgare carrying a piece of it between their upper lip and their nose.^180 Similarly, to keep at bay the influence ...

  Daisies 297 over the commoner plant because its less bitter taste gave it more ‘consumer appeal’.^199 Once collected ...

298 Artemisia vulgaris Prussia. The practice of smoking the dried leaves as a substitute for tobacco, general among country lads ...

  Daisies 299 Artemisia absinthium Linnaeus wormwood temperate Eurasia; introduced into North and South America, New Ze ...

300 Artemisia absinthium Isles is it anything like so common. It can only have been introduced for pur- poses for which that lon ...