Scoil: Ballyleague (uimhir rolla 5973)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Herbs (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

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   for keeping the guts and bladder in order. The root is boiled on water and drank a few times a day. Rib-grass is a good cure for a cut. It is used by cutting up the grass fine and mix it with unsalted butter. Marsh-mallow is used for a swelling by bathing "it" in the water produced by the herb. The male-fern is used for a calf that would be in bad health. My father told me that a doctor in Roscommon had a garden with she-ferns planted in it. My father was talking to him one day and the doctor asked him did he know what sort of plants they were, and my father said they were, only ferns. Then, after a while he pointed to a fern that had a butt like an ash tree from good manuring, and said there was a countful of medicine in the root

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   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   P.J. Glennon

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Cloonaddra, Co. Roscommon

   Faisnéiseoir

   Peter Glennon Senior

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Cloonaddra, Co. Roscommon