2 AUGUST 1940, Page 10

Herbal Drugs The new value put upon English wild plants

(especially the dandelion root, with an increase of near:37 a thousand per cent-) has been recorded in this column, but some old local herbalists still neglect money-value in favour of their own favourite medicines; they still, for example, seek out the greater celandine (which is a poppy) as a certain cure for warts! In general English herbs are beginning to increase in popularity apart from the influence