1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Brigid's, Castleknock

School: St Brigid's, Castleknock

Location:
Castleknock, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Mrs Thornton
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 161

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 161

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
  2. XML Page 161
  3. XML “Sprains and Bruises”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Sprains and Bruises (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    nettle and when rubbing it on the place where the sting is you say "Dock, Dock, take the sting of the nettle out."
    Rheumatism
    People with Rheumatism should run through nettles in their bare feet or rub or scrub a nettle on the affected
    A painful arm or leg
    Chicken weed boiled and the juice rubbed on the place in the arm or leg where the pain is
    Bleeding
    Cobwebs put into a cut stops bleeding
    A cold
    The juice of a white turnip mixed with sugar is good for a cold. Carrigeen moss is also good for a cold.
    Warts
    Squeeze some wart weed and put the white stuff ont he warts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sprains (~94)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patricia Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Sandpits, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mrs Clarke
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sandpits, Co. Dublin