Common Colts foot. British Herb Tobacco. (Waste, sandy, clayey banks.) N.O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Coughs. Scrofula.
Characteristics
*”Tussil. farfara is used to this day in the form of a confection for coughs. The leaves are mucilaginous and were much used in scrofulous affections. Smoking the dried leaves relieves coughs” (Cooper). *Tus. far. has also a popular reputation in gonorrhoea.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica