School: Anabla
- Location:
- Anablaha, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máighréad Ní Théacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 096
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- Long ago in Ireland, when there were no doctors the old people had their own cures.
If a child got thrush turnip juice was drunk as a cure. If a person got a toothache he used to grind a frogs leg. A kind of weed called chicken weed was used as a cure for burns. It was first boiled and then put to the burn as a poultice. Holy wells were also visited to cure sore eyes, pains in the bones etc. A plant called rag-weed was used as a healing plant for sore throat. Sheeps milk was drunk as a cure for whooping cough.
When people had coughs or colds they gathered shamrocks and boiled them and then drank the water as a cure. Poultices of sorrel were used for drawing sores.
- Collector
- Lizzie Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toormore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Toormore, Co. Kerry
