School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

Location:
Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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    To cure hiccough
    1 Give the person a fright and it will go immediately.
    2 Take nine mouthfuls of water without drawing your breath.
    3 Drink water out of the far side of a cup(having the near edge under the chin).
    4 Hold the left wrist with the right hand and keep in your breath for as long as you can.
    5 Take a pinch of sugar.
    To cure Corns: Wash the in the dew in the early morning or else in a bog hole.
    To Ensure Good Health: Eat three meals of nettles in the month of March and you'll take no disease for the year. Beware of drinking March water.
    To cure ear ache: 1 Get a jug of boiling water. Hold the ear over the jug and the pain will go. 2 Tie red flannel over the ear. Heat the smoothing iron and hold it over the flannel a little bit out from the ear and the pain will disappear.
    To cure sore throat: 1 Heat salt. Put it in a stocking and tie round the throat.
    2 Hot bran similarly used also cures it.
    To cure toothache: Get a man who smokes to chew a piece of tobacco and put the chewed tobacco like a plaster on the tooth.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Innse
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Múinteoir