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   foot and the Docken.
   There are weeds that people cure diseases with. It is said that if you boil dandelion, strain it, and take a tea spoonful of is juice, three times a day, it will cure a pain in your stomac. It is said that if you get a sting of a nettle you should get a docking, put it to the sting and it will cure it. Boach lime, sweet oil, and the milk of the dandelion mixed together is a cure for a burn.

   

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   The most harmful weeds in my garden are nettles, chicken weed, docken, claphogs, charlock, robin-run-the-hedge. A lot of them impovrish the soil. More of them spread rapidly. The docken cures the sting of a nettle. Another weed is the surrell. It is mostly found under hedges. It is used for kidney-trouble. Sorrel house leek, dandelion, and rushes boiled and the juice strained out of them all into a bottle and drank twice a day would cure kidney trouble. The juices of a boiled chicken weed cures the chickenpox.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   B. Maloney

   Informant

   Joseph Carey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Conranstown, Co. Westmeath