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Tussilago

Tussilago farfara, commonly known as coltsfoot, is a plant in the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. It has had uses in traditional medicine. The name "tussilago" is derived from the Latin tussis, meaning cough, and ago, meaning to cast or to act on. However, the discovery of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the plant has resulted in liver health concerns.

Tussilago farfara is the only accepted species in the genus Tussilago, although more than two dozen other species have at one time or another been considered part of this group. Most of them are now regarded as members of other genera ( Chaptalia, Chevreulia, Farfugium, Homogyne, Leibnitzia, Petasites, Senecio).

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I decanted the fellis and tussilago into padded demijohns and added to these surreptitious stores a pack containing clothing necessities for myself.

Healer Gorby reported dwindling stocks of borrago and aconite, and needed tussilago in quantity for pulmonary and bronchial cases, ilex for pneumonia.

Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaphoretic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willow salic or fellis juice for headache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.

Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaporetic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willowsalic or fellis juice for head ache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.

Moreta turned to those remedies: tussilago, comfrey, hyssop, thymus, ezob, borrago.

There I distilled fellis in the largest kettle and brewed an equally large batch of the tussilago syrup.

Moreta turned to those reme dies: tussilago, comfrey, hyssop, thymus, ezob, borrago.