MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

Arum maculatum Linnaeus lords-and-ladies, cuckoo-pint Europe, North Africa Though Arum maculatum,a common plant of hedge bottoms ...

Lemnaceae Lemna minor Linnaeus; and other species duckweed cosmopolitan except for polar regions and tropics Allegedly once a cu ...

Poaceae ‘Grass’ in a vague, generic sense features here and there in the folk medicine records, especially the Irish ones: stuff ...

the roots of other herbs for a particular kind of sore like a boil occurring on fingers and toes.^37 At least one authority^38 h ...

Ty p h a ceae Typha latifolia Linnaeus great reedmace most of northern hemisphere, South America Supplying a toothache remedy in ...

bleaker north of England and surviving there today in one or two meadows, and meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale), alone accept ...

bones.^59 No later record of that use has been traced; instead, the crushed roots have been valued mostly for drawing the blackn ...

Hyacinthoides nonscripta (Linnaeus) Chouard ex Rothmaler Endymion nonscriptus (Linnaeus) Garcke bluebell Atlantic Europe; introd ...

that. Straightforward applications externally, however, seem to have been very much an Irish speciality: for easing toothache (a ...

Allium ampeloprasum Linnaeus var.babingtonii (Borrer) Syme wild leek south-western England, western Ireland In the west of Irela ...

The reputation of the diuretic action ofRuscus aculeatus,and its consequent recommendation for kidney and urinary complaints, ca ...

poured into both nostrils, producing a copious flow of mucus and saliva which often effected a cure.^117 Alternatively, as in Or ...

The remedy involved heating the leaves or their stalks and then tying them round the neck. Records of this have been traced from ...

known Highlands remedy for soothing stomach and bowel irritation.^153 The plant’s very wide, if rather sparse, distribution thro ...

subsp.ericetorum,the common one there of wet, heathy ground and bogs. The majority of those recording the use as a love-charm, h ...

336 Notes IFC S 5: 163 IFC S 617: 222 Egan IFC S 550: 275 IFC S 914: 284 IFC S 21: 248; 59: 217 Maloney IFC S 672: 211 IFC S 82 ...

337 8 CHAPTER 17 Distribution Patterns of Folk Medicinal Uses Because the records of folk uses are for the most part so fragment ...

over much or all of both Britain and Ireland, yet if the records of their use for therapeutic purposes are broadly representativ ...

trariwise, this tree’s employment in a salve for burns or scalds has been recorded very widely in Ireland but scarcely at all in ...

to seven widely separated Irish counties and in Britain only to three of its westernmost extremities (Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, S ...