A plant species believed to have medicinal properties for treating coughs and respiratory ailments.
Compound from 'cough' and 'weed,' following the pattern of naming plants by their traditional medicinal use rather than scientific classification.
Before binomial nomenclature, plants were named by how people used them—'coughweed' tells the entire history of folk medicine in just two words!
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