206 COLTSFOOT. 



Some add rose-leaves and chamomile flowers, but the form 

 just given will be found the most agreeable, and is sufficiently 

 salutary. The herbs should be gathered in their season, and 

 dried in the shade, then rubbed to a coarse pow'der between the 

 hands. Those who prefer a mild tobacco, may increase the 

 quantity of Coltsfoot, which some prefer in the proportion of one 

 half to the whole quantity, and where this is used as a remedy 

 for asthma or consumptive cough, the Coltsfoot ought to occupy 

 at the least that proportion*. 



* Brit. Horn. Herbal, p. 94. 



