School: Baile na Cille (roll number 7454)
- Location:
- Ballynakilla, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Loingaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 039
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“The old people have a lot of old cures.”
The old people have a lot of old cures. Most of these are herbs. Here are some of them:- Slánbas, which in English is Ribleaf is a cure for a sore. It used to be put up against the sore and it used to draw out any poison that was in it.
There is a very smooth leaf which is a cure for a burn. It is put on the burn the same way as the Slánsas. This leaf is a kind of fern and grows along near ditches.
The juice was squeezed out of penny-leaves and used as medicine for children. Cobwebs were used to stop bleeding. Camomile was used as a cure for nervous people. It used to be put in a cup and boiling water poured on it and it used to be left drawing like tea. then it was drank. Yarrow was a cure for Rheumatism. It used to be put in a cup and boiling water poured on it and it used to be left drawing. Then like Camomile it used to be drank. Briar leaves used to be left near the fire until they got hard and ripe. Then they used to be ground up and powder made out of it. This powder was used for tender skin. Cupóg or Doc-leaf was used to stop the pain of a sting of a nettle. A sort of thick liquid is found near the bottom of the stem and this was rubbed on to the sting.
- Collector
- Finbarr Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrycreeveen, Co. Cork