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1. Some Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Local Cures continued
   People get a cure for a sore throat from salt.
   The salt must first be treated on a fire in a frying pay or baking oven. Then it is put into a woollen stocking and tied around the person's neck.
   A cure for weak nerves is nettle tea made from stewed nettles. Heart-fever grass can be cured by stewing heart fever grass. It is to be found growing along the ditches along the road; it grows like a dandelion only it is low and scalloped on the edges. An insect bite or sting can be cured by blue.
   A nettle sting can be cured by a "dock" leaf rubbed on the sting and sometimes you will hear people say "dock in and nettle out" three or four times after other. A cure for toothache is soot or washing soda. Bogbine, which is very plentiful in the hill, is a cure for bad blood; it is said that it should not be taken in any months that the letter R is on.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Mc Lauughlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Quigley's Point, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mrs. C. Duffy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drung, Co. Donegal