MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

maternity hospitals in Worcestershire, preliminary tests having appeared to confirm the belief that the compound then called fra ...

erick^105 (for easing sore throats) is anything to go by. Yet raspberries certainly grow wild in Ireland quite widely and are ac ...

current around the start of the nineteenth century in the Highlands,^139 where it was steeped in buttermilk. In Leicestershire i ...

144 Potentilla anserina shire^143 resorted to this, and it survived in rural parts of the Eastern Counties till the 1940s at lea ...

Fragaria vesca Linnaeus   wild strawberry Europe, western and central Asia, Macaronesia, eastern North America; introduce ...

its leaves to improve their complexions, a use reflected in a folk song fragment in Cornish collected in 1698.^166 Ireland has p ...

  Currants, Succulents and Roses 147 monia eupatoria is one of several herbs to have gained a reputation as a gen- eral ...

coughs—in Devon,^171 Gloucestershire^172 and Suffolk^173 —as well as for var- ious rheumatic complaints in three of the Eastern ...

Alchemilla vulgaris Linnaeus, in the broad sense lady’s-mantle Europe, northern and western Asia, eastern North America, Austral ...

150 Alchemilla vulgaris asexually. Most of these are characteristic of upland hay-meadows, a habitat in which some are considera ...

ingham.^211 Cities feature too much in this account for there not to be some suspicion that that may nevertheless be a herbal us ...

Herefordshire,^220 Buckinghamshire,^221 Essex,^222 Suffolk,^223 Norfolk,^224 Cam- bridgeshire^225 ) despite the tree’s general d ...

ticosus) for countering diarrhoea, in Cornwall,^227 Dorset,^228 Hertfordshire,^229 Leicestershire^230 and if ‘internal disorders ...

Malus sylvestris (Linnaeus) Miller crab apple north-western Europe Only where a record specifically mentions crab apple (or ‘cra ...

Sorbus aucuparia has predictably been deployed against a variety of ail- ments—though not nearly as widely as one might have exp ...

Maloney Newman & Newman, 186 2a. Cockayne 1864–6; Grattan & Singer 1952 Johnson 1862 Williams MS Williams MS ‘E.C.’ Hat ...

  Currants, Succulents and Roses 157 Maloney Vickery 1985 Maloney IFC S 904: 256 IFC S 191: 88 IFC S 921: 69, 89 IFC S ...

158 Notes IFC S 522: 197 IFC S 385: 54 IFC S 505: 148 IFC S 672: 211 IFC S 476: 91 McClafferty IFC S 907: 208 IFC S 190: 169, 1 ...

  Currants, Succulents and Roses 159 Vickery MSS Johnston 1853 Vickery MSS Hatfield MS Beith McGlinchey, 83 IFC S 1043: ...

160 8 CHAPTER 9 Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Fabales (Faba- ceae, ...