MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

Lichens CLADONIACEAE Cladonia chlorophaea (Floerke ex Sommerfeldt) Sprengel, in the broad sense chalice-moss, cup-moss, Our Lady ...

hair (and it is still sold in the best chemist shops as an ingredient in anti- dandruff shampoos). The only unambiguously folk r ...

herbals from the fifteenth century onwards for lung complaints, allegedly because it has an irregular pitted surface superficial ...

belief that jelly-like masses that appear on the ground after rain are the remains of shooting stars fallen to earth and, as suc ...

Eaten raw, fresh or dried, or cooked like spinach,Palmaria palmata has long held a place in Scottish and Irish folk medicine as ...

found it being boiled and given to the cows on Skye to clear up their spring- time costiveness.^56 GREEN ALGAE Ulva lactuca Linn ...

tism, bruised limbs and sprains. In Britain it has been recorded from Corn- wall,^60 Somerset,^61 Essex,^62 Cumbria^63 and Angus ...

it has been shredded, chewed and swallowed for constipation^75 and in Skye it has been eaten to purify the blood.^76 Four uniden ...

Phellinus igniarius (Fries) Quélet willow fomes circumpolar and northern temperate zone Of the two related species that have sha ...

Tremella mesenterica Retzius ex Hooker jelly fungus, yellow brain-fungus Arctic and northern temperate region, Caribbean, North ...

puffballs to use, when required, for stopping up a wound^94 ; and till only very recently many farmers and cottagers in, for exa ...

Notes 52 Notes Woodruffe-Peacock Johnston 1853, 263–4 Tait IFC S 485: 53 Darwin, 11; Dickson & Dickson, 79, 226 Beith Tongu ...

  Bryophytes, Lichens, Algae and Fungi 53 Withering 1787–92, 767 Swanton Swanton Swanton;Sussex County Magazine, no. 6 ...

54 CHAPTER 4 Pteridophytes and Conifers Pteridophytes Pteridophytes consist of a number of not very closely related plants some- ...

At the same time, as its specific name indicates,Huperzia selago was widely identified with a herb recorded by Pliny the Elder i ...

OPHIOGLOSSACEAE Ophioglossum vulgatum Linnaeus adder’s-tongue northern temperate zone, North Africa Perhaps because of a fancied ...

dislocations and bruises in those boggier parts of the north and west from which Symphytum officinale (comfrey), elsewhere used ...

Ireland has experience of that use, too, in the neighbouring counties of Limerick^28 and Clare,^29 but the plant has been furthe ...

determined by whether the rhizomes or the fronds were utilised. An infu- sion of the rhizomes was valued as a mild laxative in C ...

ailment in ‘some parts of England’.^40 In the Highlands they have served as the source of a snuff taken to alleviate catarrh.^41 ...