I do not know if the tomes on ancient herbal cures contain the Scottish one for consumption:---

Nettles ln Mairch
and Mugwort in Mey
and sae mony fair maids
widnae gyang tae the cley.

This can be found in the story "Tam McKissock and the Mermaid" on MTCD 313. An explanation is given about the consumption mainly affecting young girls between the ages of twelve and twenty.

Bent is the longish rough grass found in upland areas and it is found on braefaces with broom. Broom is in itself interesting as it flourishes for seven years then disappears for the next seven years. During the seven fallow years the bent covers the area where the broom grows. What did our ancestors make of this, was it the source of legends and speculation?

In Blair Castle, just of the A9 on the road to Inverness, there is a room furnished with furniture completely made from broom over 200years ago, anyone who knows broom will say this is not possible but it is certainly true for in that room we have the first ever example of chipboard. The broom stems were softened and put through water driven rollers under tremendous pressure to form the panels required by the cabinet maker. Well worth a visit just to see this early example of mans ingenuity with an unpromising material.