12-01-2017, 10:54 PM
And for tussilago, I can't find any appropriate mnemonics for the small leaf and the hook. In English and German, virtually all names revolve around hooves. In Russian, this is called мать-и-мачеха (= "mother-and-stepmother"), but that does not relate to two objects, it relates to two sides of the leaf.
"Tussilago" relates to cough (it cures cough), farfara is from "far ferire" - reflecting the property of the reverse side of the leaf.
Pliny discusses Tussilago in XXIV, 85, as well as XXVI, 16, but he tells only about cough and about water.
If this is Tussilago, then the small leaf and the hook are mnemonics - since they do not exist in the real plant. So if we fail to read that mnemonics then this is probably not Tussilago at all.
"Tussilago" relates to cough (it cures cough), farfara is from "far ferire" - reflecting the property of the reverse side of the leaf.
Pliny discusses Tussilago in XXIV, 85, as well as XXVI, 16, but he tells only about cough and about water.
If this is Tussilago, then the small leaf and the hook are mnemonics - since they do not exist in the real plant. So if we fail to read that mnemonics then this is probably not Tussilago at all.