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School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote

Location:
Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Sr. M. Patrick
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    If you have warts on your hand or leg the fluid of the dandelion will cure them.
    The dock leaf takes away a sting of a nettle.
    Marshmallow cures colds and coughs
    Irish moss is used for the chest and bronchial affections.
    Rhubarb Root is used for diarrhea.
    Yellow Dock root is used for rheumatism liver trouble.
    Nettle seed is used for consumption
    Red Dock Root is used for taking away ulcers in the mouth Powdered for teeth.
    Ginger Root is generally used with other herbs for colds and spasms
    Male Fern Root is used for expulsion of tape worms it is said that capsule form is the best taken.
    Lily of the Calley Root is used in small doses for dropsy and valvular heart disease.
    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
    Teresa Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    M.J. Flanagan
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Ballymote, Co. Sligo