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School: St Columba's, Buncrana

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Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 091

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    Bogbine is used for taking pimples of your face. Boil the bogbine and keep the soup. Take a spoonful after every meal, for about a month.
    Nettle
    Nettle soup is good for a the cold. Boil the nettles and put the soup into a jug. Take half a cup-full every day for about a week.
    Docking
    A docking can cure a sting of a nettle. Rub the docking on the place where you got the sting.
    White clover
    White clover is a very useful herb. When a person is dry and is far away from water. He can get a white clover in a field and suck it. All those herbs grow in fields except the bogbine. The bogbine grows in bogs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seamus Cutliff
    Gender
    Male