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School: Drom Mór (C.), Malla (roll number 13780)

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Dromore, Co. Cork
Teacher:
M. Uí Uallaighe
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    Mostly all the wild plants can be used in the making of medicine and in the olden times the people had no medicine to buy and chemists shops were unknown. Then the people used plants in various ways: for instance:- The elder tree was used for medicine, they scraped down the bark of the tree, boiled it and gave it to drink. Parsley water and green vegetable water was also used. For sore throat peel off the outer skin of an onion, half roast it on the embers and mix with sugar.
    For a cough the blossoms of the furze were used,
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    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
    Margaret O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Female