School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 166
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- In olden times people relied altogether on herbs to heal their bodily ailments. For a very bad pain in your side the white of an egg and the fluff of a rope it should be placed on a brown paper. For a sore throat there is a small herb called "Seanavanbeg" it is a small green plant with a white flower and appears in mid summer.
Another reliable cure for a bad cough is ground Ivy and wild celery it must be boiled in a pint of milk for two hours. For Kidney trouble a grass mouse boiled in milk the milk should be a little warm. Another cure for a sore throat is fotram and lard. Oak bark boiled in the water would cure scalding feet.
- Collector
- May Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Buckstown, Co. Kilkenny
