MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

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Teucrium scorodonia Linnaeus
wood sage, wild sage, mountain sage, heath sage
southern, western and central Europe; introduced into North America
Mainly a plant of the acid soils of the north and west of the British Isles,Te u -
crium scorodonia seems to have featured as a folk herb only very marginally
in England. A tea made from it in Hampshire has been drunk for swellings,


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Marrubium
vulgare, white
horehound (Fuchs
1543, fig. 335)
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