MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Elms to Docks 101 Farrelly MS IFC S 157: 314 McClafferty Farrelly MS IFC S 800: 219 Hatfield, 46 Emerson, 91; Taylor ...

102 Notes IFC S 519: 115 Quayle, 69 Vickery MSS Fargher Buchanan-Brown, 472 Monteith, 77 Jóhansen Carmichael, 123 Beith Beith B ...

103 CHAPTER 7 St John’s-worts to Primulas Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Theales (Clusi- aceae, St ...

under the name ‘touch-and-heal’ and was employed ‘to prevent a mark’ more especially. Hypericum perforatum Linnaeus; and other s ...

  St John’s-worts to Primulas 105 Columba, applied as a pad under the armpit or in the groin, to restore the sanity of a ...

Considering how generally disseminated an antidepressant could be expected to have been had this property been appreciated, that ...

data and T.platyphyllos Scopoli, have been too scarce in recent centuries to have been drawn on for this purpose, and the hybrid ...

M. sylvestris would have had to be accepted as an inferior substitute. Sugges- tively, in the Isle of Man, where tree-mallow occ ...

the folk records from most parts of Britain and Ireland with the conspicuous exception of the Scottish Highlands and most of Wal ...

have been reported in use in Britain. Of these, only urinary complaints have been found recorded as a use from as many counties ...

being drunk when needed.^66 These last two are recorded from the area just south-west of the border, whereas it has been down so ...

into a pudding and eaten to cure ‘giddyness of the head’.^70 The flowers, indeed, feature in the folk medicine records only exce ...

Cucurbitaceae Bryonia dioica Jacquin Bryonia cretica subsp.dioica (Jacquin) Tutin white bryony central and southern Europe, west ...

belief which must by definition have come from learned medicine. The name still lingers on—or modified to ‘English mandrake’ by ...

indigestion.^96 This can only have been a comparatively late use and may well have come from the written tradition. Salix Linnae ...

only records for drinking that infusion are from the south-eastern quarter of England—more widespread, alternative ways of inges ...

(Folk credentials lacking) The remains of the once popular medicinal herb Descurainia sophia have been detected in a Romano-Brit ...

Thus Threlkeld wrote in 1726 of his experience in and around Dublin. The species involved could have been either the native Barb ...

spasmodic properties which are helpful in cases of hysteria, epilepsy and St Vitus’ dance appear in the learned medical literatu ...

favour only for colic, constipation and stitches; scurvy finds no mention.^159 Almost a century later, John Lightfoot in his tur ...