Botanical Name: Tussilago farfara
Common Names: Bullsfoot, horsehoof, butter, British tobacco,
folesfoot, flower vellure
coughwort, ginger root
Medicinal
Properties: Emollient, demulcent, expectorant, pectoral, diaphoretic,
tonic
Is an excellent remedy for catarrh, consumption, and all lung troubles. It is very soothing to the mucous membranes. Good results are obtained when a tea is made by steeping a heaping tablespoonful in a quart of water, and using as a fomentation, or just moisten a cloth in the tea and apply to the lung and throat. Is excellent to relieve the chest of phlegm in all coughs, asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and spasmodic cough. Is good for inflammations and swellings, piles, stomach troubles, and ague or fever. The powdered leaves snuffed up the nostrils are excellent for nasal obstruction and headache. For scrofula or scrofulous tumors, take internally or make a poultice and apply externally. Coltsfoot has been much used in cough and lung medicines. It is excellent made into a cough syrup combined with other herbs.
Adopted from Kloss, 1939