School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)left on a thorn that cannot be taken out it will draw it out and any poisonous stuff left after it.
- Cumfrey cures sores also. It grows similar to the capog. If it's roots are cut up in small bits, and fresh butter put on them and the mixture put on a cloth and tied on to the sore, it draws out the poisonous substance, and the sore heals up immediately.
- Garlic purified the blood and cures pains also. If you eat it daily you will never contract any of the following diseases flu, measles, consumption or diptheria.
