SPANISH MEDICINE: Coltsfoot, (has a yellow aster like flower)Tussilago farfara, catalan: farfara; Basque: zaldioin; Spanish: farfara.   Pilgrims making their way toward the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St James. 3rd largest Pilgrimage in the world) used Coltsfoot is several ways.   To quiet coughs (bequico), as an emolient and expectorant.   As a treatment for irritated tissues, insect bites, stings, burns and inflamed external irritations: The juice was squeezed out of the leaves and applied directly to the wound and covered with a clean rag.

Eczema and neuralgia are treated in the same way.

To treat bronchitis and coughs an infusion of the leaves was used.

The root in infusion is considered a tonic and diaphoretic

Spanish mixed the dried flowers with tobacco to make an aromatic smoke.

Modern Uses:  Today the dried flowers and leaves are used, as well as the fresh leaves.  They are used to treat bronchitis, coughs, and inflammations of the pharynx and mouth (unproven).  Whereas flowers were used in antiquity as a essence for tobacco, the dried leaves of Coltsfoot are used with tobacco as a cure for the addiction.

Leaves have a honey like smell when rubbed, aromatic flowers. 

WARNING:  In Germany and elsewhere the leaves of Coltsfoot as an internal drug is restricted.  The chemical prevalence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the species may make it at any dose hepatotoxic (liver) and a potent carcinogen.  (more Spanish Medicine)
Above plants were photographed at 7500 feet of altitude in Andorra.