PeaN to USED MEDICINAELY 
AND THEIR APPLICATION BY 
ORCADIANS. 
BUCK-BEAN or BoG-BEAN, Menyanthes trvfolrata. 
Locally known as “craw-shoe.” The leaves were 
used instead of hops to give bitterness to the wort of 
home-brewed ale; and the bruised leaves were applied 
to the sores of scrofula. It was also used to flavour 
ale in Birsay. In Deerness it was given to cattle 
suffering from tuberculosis. 
CottsFoot, Tussilago Furfara. 
The leaves were partly dried, put in a clean clay 
pipe and smoked in the same way as tobacco, to cure 
bronchitis, coughs, &ec., the smoke being inhaled. A 
sweetened decoction of the flowers was also used for 
colds. 
CHAMOMILE, Anthemis nobilis. 
An infusion of this was used for bilious troubles; 
and the flowers steeped in hot water were applied as 
poultices for soothing pain in inflammation. These 
were called “ camavine flooers.” 
