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1. Local Cures

   

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   We have a plant at home called the Elecampane or Meacan Aillinn or Meacan Aille or Meacan Ailleann)

   The water of boiled nettles is great cure for curing cough.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   Syrups were made out of the Vinegar-plant for colds.
   The leech (Súmaire) was used for drawing blood out of a boil, for putting back a lump or for curing or taking the blackness off a black eye. He was found deep down in a soft-turf-bog and then preserved in a bottle.
   To heal sores in a child's head they used to get a green-cabbage leaf and often heating it they used to fit in on the child's head and leave it so for a few days when taken off the sores used to be gone.

   

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   Rib-Wort or Rib Grass or Rib-leaf (Slánlus) is a plant that grows in potato gardens or light young meadows. Its leaves are large like the leaves of the dog-leaf (copóg). It grows to about a half a foot high. It is much used for stopping blood. The leaf is plucked and chewed and then applied to a bleeding cut to stop the blood.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Tom Healy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   86

   Address

   Listellick North, Co. Kerry