MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

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and Monmouthshire) and become so widely incorporated into folk use that
it would be invidious to exclude it from mention.
Like other herbs with a highly corrosive latex, this plant has traditionally
been used for warts above all (as recommended in several herbals and as
reflected in various vernacular names) and very widely for corns, as in Som-


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Chelidonium majus,
greater celandine
(Fuchs 1543, fig. 496)
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