Scoil: Árd-achadh (B.) (uimhir rolla 14075)

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1. Local Cures (ar lean)

   

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   toothache and headaches, and the ointment made from the juice of the stems was supposed to cure wounds.The gander's breath was supposed to cure the thrush. A child that never saw its father had a cure for that ailment.

   An old remedy for the whooping cough was to take a bottle of new milk to a house where a ferret is kept, and to let him drink a little of it. Give whatever he has left to the person that has the cough. Another remedy was, if a man with a white horse passed your house, to ask him for a cure. Whatever he would suggest to you, was looked on as a cure.

   As a cure for sprains, people used comfrey. Wash and scrape the roots. Put it on a cloth that is very sticky. Put it up to the swollen part. Some people leave it on for a week, and more put a fresh plaster on every day. It is very good for sprains.

   Another cure in former days, was paying rounds at Holy wells. If the person was unable to go. A friend would go and pay the rounds for them, on the following way. Take up 9 stones and go round the well saying the Rosary. Drop a stone each time in front of the well.

   

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