All these are rubbed together by the hands into a coarse powder, Coltsfoot forming quite one-half of the same; and this powder may be very beneficially smoked for asthma, or for spasmodic bronchial cough.
Fuller tells about a girl cured of twelve scrofulous sores, by drinking daily, for four months, as much as she could of Coltsfoot tea, made so strong from the leaves as to be sweet and glutinous.
In Paris the Coltsfoot flower is painted on the doorposts of an apothecary's house.
It is related to the coltsfoot of the arable fields, and the coltsfoot sends up a stalk without a leaf, and flowers before any green appears.
Each coltsfoot down the grassy bent, Whose round leaves hold the gathered shower, Each quaintly-folded cuckoo pint, And silver-paly cuckoo flower.
And pray, understand that, whether Mr. Coltsfoot be viscount or acrobat, it can make no difference whatever to the disinterested affection with which I have lately learnt to regard him.
Lord Coltsfoot is heir to a dukedom; Miss Hoard is the result in bullion of iron-works.
I have some news this morning," he adds: "Coltsfoot marries Miss Hoard.
Some of those new people are presentable, but she isn't; and Coltsfootis so good-looking and so young.
From a strong decoction of coltsfoot flowers, 1 quart; Spanish juice, 1/2 lb.
Dried flowers of mallow, catsfoot, coltsfoot and petals of red poppy, of each 1 oz.
The new people who have the small-holding at Coltsfoot the Brights had before.
For the Coltsfootbungalow was unusually ugly even for an Essex small-holding.
The leaves of the Coltsfoot are entirely covered with cotton wool when they are small; as they grow bigger, they become glossy grey-green above, and are white only underneath.
But theColtsfoot down-ball is neither so starry nor so beautiful as that of the Dandelion.
It formed the basis of Coltsfoot lozenges, long celebrated as a cure for coughs.
The peasants of Bavaria weave garlands of the fragrant Coltsfoot (Nardosmia fragrans) on Easter Day, and cast them into the fire.
The Butterbur Coltsfoot (Tussilago Petasites) obtained the name of Pestilence Weed from its having in olden times been held in great repute as a sovereign remedy for the plague and pestilent fever.
At first sight, the coltsfoot might be mistaken for a small dandelion.
The rich living yellow of the coltsfoot is a conspicuous example.
The fumes of dried coltsfoot leaves were used as a remedy in cases of difficulty of breathing, both in ancient Roman times and in Tudor England.
The leaves of coltsfoot and of other plants have often been used as a substitute for tobacco in modern days.
Similar mixtures, or the leaves of coltsfoot alone, have often been smoked in bygone days by folk who could not afford to smoke tobacco only.
The brimstone is no sooner out than the coltsfootand the celandine and the bulbous buttercup spread their gold to allure him.
DOWN by the streamlet in the Frying Pan, in the heavy clay soil of the bank, I see this morning the flower-scapes of the coltsfoot are lifting betimes their curious bent heads.
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