School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seoirse Ó Maoldhomhnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)rheumatics, and these are also a cure for sore eyes. It is also a cure for bad blood. It is to be boiled with milk and drink.
Turkey grass is a great cure for rheumatics . It grows on the railway track. It is a thick coarse kind of grass. It would cut you if you thought to pull it. It has to be cut with a clippers or a scissors. This grass has to be boiled with spring water and beat up until it is like a fast, and then it has to be taken. going to bed at until you are cured.
Potatoes chopped up are great cure for welts and bunions.
These herbs are sometimes able to surpass the doctors in many ways, where doctors have failed and given their patient up as incurable.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Clonroad Beg, Co. Clare
