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1. Local Cures - Human Cures

   

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   To cure a tooth-ache, when the tooth was holed a person put salt and pepper into it. If you burned your leg you got the white of an egg and put it on top of the burned part. That used to cool and keep down the pain. For a bruise in your foot Caisbhreón applied to it as a poultice or hot-meal and bran made into a poultice helped to draw or cure it.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Dan Dowling

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Address

   Ballynahoulort, Co. Kerry

2. Local Cures - Human Cures

   

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   For a very violent headache people used to pull the leaves and stalk of the potato plant and then put them up to the forehead especially when the sap is ousing out of them it is rubbed to the forehead.

   

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