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Family: Ranunculaceae
---Synonyms---Crowfoot. Windflower. Smell Fox.
---Parts Used---Root, leaves, juice.
A beautiful low-growing plant which naturalises
itself in open woodland beneath leaf-losing trees and in shady places in
rock gardens.
---Medicinal Action and Uses---Medical
herbalists use the Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris, as a nervine
and anti-spasmodic for nervous headaches and asthrna.
The leaves provoke the terms, being boiled, and the
decoction drank. The body bathed with the decoction cures the leprosy. The
leaves stamped, and the juice snuffed up the nose, purgeth the head
mightily; so doth the root, chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much
spitting and bringeth away watery and phlegmatic humours and is therefore
excellent for the lethargy. Made into an ointment and the eyelids anointed
with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes. The same ointment is excellent
to cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers.
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