MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Water-lilies, Buttercups and Poppies 81 for instance, Cameron McNeill IFC S 636: 191 IFC S 524: 11 Beith IFC S 483: 3 ...

82 Notes Beith Porter 1974, 52 Newman 1945 Hatfield, 40, 55, appendix Fargher Beith Morrison Simpson, 159 A. Allen, 43 Tongue E ...

83 8 CHAPTER 6 Elms to Docks Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Urticales (Ulma- ceae, elms; Cannabace ...

troubles in general; this, too, was a use formerly widespread in rural Ireland^2 which survived till more recently at least in T ...

Urtica urensLinnaeus small nettle Eurasia, North Africa; intro- duced into other temperate regions With the possible exception o ...

86 Urtica Of the numerous ailments which crop up in the records much less com- monly, two clearly owe their presence to the plan ...

have been expected to have occupied an equally central place medicinally, for lack of phytochemical efficacy does not seem to ha ...

the trees’ use in folk medicine are predominantly Irish. These have all involved exploitation of the bark. Collected in spring f ...

Alnus glutinosa (Linnaeus) Gaertner  3 alder Europe, western Asia, North Africa; introduced into eastern North America Beca ...

poses, contemporary though that utilising is, for in the Isles of Scilly the juice of the fleshy leaves is rubbed on to sunburn. ...

Caryophyllaceae Honckenya peploides (Linnaeus) Ehrhart sea sandwort Arctic and northern temperate zone According to one of John ...

decoction of the plant. A yet further approach is to eat the boiled leaves: to cleanse the system and improve the complexion in ...

grangore or glengore,which, being Scots for syphilis, may imply a one-time venereal reputation.^106 Lychnis flos-cuculi Linnaeus ...

ment made for snakebites used in Cardiganshire, however, was probably made from this and not ragged-robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi). ...

brios bronn,^123 perhaps the same as the briose brún,a name for a lameness in cattle apparently resulting from phosphorus defici ...

96 Rumex acetosa As with nettles (Urtica) and burdock (Arctium), one of the functions of sorrel has been to cleanse the blood of ...

Rumex hydrolapathum Hudson water dock western and southern Europe With its very astringent roots,Rumex hydrolapathum formerly ha ...

Rumex obtusifolius Linnaeus broad-leaved dock western and central Europe; introduced into North America, Australasia Probably th ...

whereas in Somerset^181 it has been deemed sufficient just to rub a leaf on one, elsewhere drinking an infusion made from the ro ...

‘with their feet in the water’) as recently as the 1940s for bathing rashes, sun- burn and the like.^206 Plumbaginaceae Armeria ...