School: Scrabagh (roll number 11202)
- Location:
- Scrabbagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Ffrench
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0254, Page 025
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Most of the common herbs are poisinous and it always safer therefore to use small quantities of plant products.
The following is a summary of the properties of some common herbs.
The Dandelion is used as a tonic for liver and digestive trouble.
The Nettle was formerly used in soaps. It has a wonderful action on the shin and it is also used as a blood purifer.
Coltsfoot is a great cough remedy and it removes phlegm.
In my district the farmers use stone-crop as a cure for horses that are suffering from worms. The ivy leaf is a great cure for corns and the mullein plant is used as a cure for a cough. The bogbean is greatly used as a cure for rheumatism.
There is a story that i have heard lately. A certain man in Clondra had a cure for cancer. When he was dying he gave the cure to his nephew and told him all the herbs to use in the making of this cure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Caslin
- Gender
- Female
