MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1

246 Plantago coronopus


to the bites of rabid dogs and resulting hydrophobia, under the name ‘star-of-
the-earth’. Though the recorded uses of the latter seem to have been veteri-
nary, it could well have been used when humans were bitten, too.


Plantago coronopus,
buck’s-horn plantain
(Fuchs 1543, fig. 252).

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