MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1
Index of Folk Uses 401

Rumex obtusifolius, 99
‘rushes’, 322
Salix spp., 166
Sambucus nigra, 271
Taxus baccata, 67
Ulex spp., 164
Urtica spp., 86
ruptures
Saxifraga ×urbium, 139
St Vitus’ dance
Te ucrium scorodonia, 218
Viscum album, 167
salivation, to promote
Mercurialis perennis, 169
sanity, to restore
Hypericum pulchrum, 105
scab, in pigs
Scrophularia nodosa, 356
scab, sheep
Anemone nemorosa, 350
Conium maculatum, 351
Digitalis purpurea, 351
Rumex spp., 355
scabies
Succisa pratensis,276–7
scalds, see burns and scalds
scar, to prevent a
Hypericum androsaemum, 104
‘rushes’, 322
scar, to remove a
Potentilla anserina, 143
scarlet fever
Artemisia absinthium, 300
Digitalis purpurea, 256
Taraxacum officinale, 287
sciatica
Artemisia vulgaris, 298
Lamium album, 215
Osmunda regalis, 58
Ranunculussp., 73
scour, white
Dryopteris filix-mas? 351
Potentilla erecta, 354
scratches, see cuts
scrofula
Arctium spp., 282
Filipendula ulmaria, 140
Leucanthemum vulgare? 306
Menyanthes trifoliata, 203


Oenanthe crocata? 187
Oxalis acetosella, 174
Ranunculus hederaceus, 73
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, 118
Sorbus aucuparia, 155
Succisa pratensis? 278
Verbena officinalis, 211
Ver onica beccabunga, 260
scruff
Umbilicus rupestris, 358
scurvy
Agrimonia eupatoria, 148
Calystegia soldanella, 200
Centaurea nigra, 284
Cochlearia anglica, 119
Cochlearia officinalis,119, 342
Cuscuta epithymum, 201
Galium aparine, 268
Honckenya peploides, 91
Palmaria palmata, 45
Petasites hybridus, 311
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, 118
Rumex acetosa, 96
Rumex hydrolapathum, 97
Rumex obtusifolius, 99
Sinapis arvensis, 120
Smyrnium olusatrum, 183
Sorbus aucuparia, 155
Succisa pratensis, 276
Ver onica beccabunga, 260
sedation
Achillea millefolium, 302
Anthriscus sylvestris, 183
Chamaemelum nobile,303, 304
Cladophoraspp., 46
Ericaspp., 122
Humulus lupulus, 84
Ligusticum scoticum, 189
Linaria vulgaris, 254
Papaverspp., 77, 78
Solanum dulcamara, 198
Stellaria media, 91
Thymus spp., 237
Urtica spp., 86
Vinca spp., 196
Viola odorata, 112
Viscum album, 167
semen, to increase
Galium aparine, 352
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