MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

not always for reasons that one might suppose.Flora Sarisburiensis,for instance, was produced by the head of the Salisbury Infir ...

Long after that nineteenth-century ample harvest of herbal data had been gathered, historians continued to dismiss folk medicine ...

considerable sophistication and stability were probably already established and would have been highly resistant to alien tradit ...

don Dispensatory of 1649, William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine of 1769 and other books that sought to break the secrecy cultivated ...

Africa which are known to have joined the wild flora of these islands some- time after. Such gains apart, however, the period si ...

the medical profession today as conclusive.Most of the claims made for them will remain unproven until more work is done or new ...

for instance—tend to pass as all one and the same. That is unlikely to matter unless beneath the outward similarity there are su ...

increasingly hybrid entity superimposed on that, the product of multiple intrusive influences. The difficulty is exactly compara ...

published accounts of ostensibly folk usage. That process has been so wide- spread that the two traditions are now inextricably ...

wave of research has focused on the floras of the tropics. The herbal potential of Europe and other temperate regions has been r ...

CHAPTER 2 Introduction to the Compendium of Uses The compendium in the following chapters lists all the folk medical uses traced ...

ment reorganisation of 1974, as they were the ones obtaining (with only minor boundary adjustments) throughout all but a tiny pa ...

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34 Geographical Areas ‘Ulster’ has been used in the records loosely and variously. All or just a part or parts of that Irish pro ...

Records differ greatly in their degree of precision. Very few, and those mostly in works of a general character, are entirely un ...

Plant Names The scientific names of flowering plants and ferns are those of the list by Kent (1992) and its supplements or, in t ...

plants covered can be grouped in two further ones to produce fourteen sec- tions (Chapters 3–16) in all: Nonvascular plants Chap ...

themselves, confining attempts at translation to those that are archaic and have a recognised modern synonym. All too often, unf ...

CHAPTER 3 Bryophytes, Lichens, Algae and Fungi The non-vascular plants include the bryophytes (liverworts and mosses) and organi ...

Fontinalis antipyretica Hedwig willow moss disjunct circumpolar Apart from a record of ‘river moss’ (presumably the aquatic spec ...