MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

nated in the particular area in question but subsequently failed to spread much more widely, perhaps as a result of poor communi ...

Islands as well that the fleshy leaves ofRumex acetosa (common sorrel) have been eaten to counter scurvy, and only in that same ...

quite a range of plants as a teething necklace for babies have been exclusively English, too? Unsurprisingly, it is between Brit ...

344 Distribution Patterns cure for earache or a headache involving dropping into the ear sap from a twig ofFraxinus excelsior he ...

  Distribution Patterns 345 Senecio jacobaea (common ragwort) for jaundice Stellaria media (common chickweed) for cuts ...

Another speciality of that same central belt is the valuing ofPrimula vul- garis (primrose) as a treatment for jaundice. Yet tha ...

  Distribution Patterns 347 country till very recently have the results that regional peculiarities are easier to detec ...

348 8 Appendix Veterinary Remedies Considerably more than a hundred different herbs are on record as having been used in Britain ...

Unlike human ailments, many veterinary ones are not generally familiar. Those that feature most prominently in the list that fol ...

350 Veterinary Remedies strangles.A commonly fatal, highly contagious bacterial infection of the lymph glands round the neck and ...

Artemisia vulgaris,mugwort. Gangrene in horses (Donegal^19 ). Berberis vulgaris,barberry. Jaundice in cattle (Ireland, unlocalis ...

Euphorbiaspp., spurges. Black-leg (Cavan^60 ). Euphorbia hyberna,Irish spurge. Purge for horses and cattle (Galway^61 ). Euphras ...

Huperzia selago,fir clubmoss. Lice in cows and pigs (England, unlocal- ised^101 ); perhaps also the unspecified clubmoss applied ...

Myrica gale,bog-myrtle. Red-water fever and collar sores on horses (Mayo^141 ); fluke in calves (Leitrim^142 ); fits in dogs, an ...

Appendix Veterinary Remedies 355 Primula veris,cowslip. Coughs in cattle (Cumbria, in combination with Symphytum^173 ). Primula ...

356 Veterinary Remedies Sanicula europaea,sanicle (frontispiece). Gapes in young pheasants (Donegal^212 ). Scrophularia nodosa,c ...

Sorbus aucuparia,rowan. Strangles (Limerick^247 —smoke of burnt wood inhaled). Stellaria media,chickweed. Red-water fever (†Wick ...

358 Veterinary Remedies Ulexspp., gorse. Worms (Isle of Man,^292 six Irish counties); botts (Mona- ghan^293 ); coughs in cattle ...

Appendix Veterinary Remedies 359 Notes Williams MS Williams MS IFC S 969: 28 Hatfield, appendix Hatfield, appendix Hart 1898, 3 ...

360 Notes Taylor MS; Hatfield, appendix IFC S 512: 98 Hatfield MS Palmer 1994, 111 Hatfield, 79, appendix Maloney IFC S 812: 44 ...