310 Tussilago farfara
Tussilago farfara, colt’s-foot (Bock 1556, p. 158)Herefordshire,^412 Suffolk,^413 Fife^414 and the Highlands.^415 In Oxfordshire,^416
on the other hand, the plant’s reputation has extended to that of a blood puri-
fier, while an ointment made from the roots, with other ingredients added,
was once in great repute for curing sprains and all swellings of the joints in
Roxburghshire.^417
Ireland has shared that use for asthma, with records from a similarly scat-
tered set of counties (Antrim,^418 Wicklow,^419 Tipperary,^420 Cork^421 ), but for