School: Cromadh (B.)

Location:
Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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  1. Cures. 23-5-1938
    To get withered chestnut leaves and boil them in water. When they're boiled to drain them and to drink the juice of them, may cure asthma.
    A cure for warts is to get a dandelion stem and to rub the milk of it on to them.
    The green leaves of the dandelion put in a teapot and some water with them. When they are drawn like tea. To drink the juice of, is a cure for asthma and is good for a delicate person.
    A cobweb put up to a wound will stop if from bleeding and will heal it up.
    White clover and hee woodbine drawn, and taken for nine mornings fasting will cure yellow jaundice.
    If you have windgawl, wash you feet in potato water and it will cure it.
    If you have whittle, boil thick sour cream and flour together and put it up to the whittle, and you'll be cured.
    Agrimony tea made out of the agrimony flower, will cure bad nerves or rheumatism.
    When you have the yellow jaundice, dig nine worms at the break of day
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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