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School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)

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Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 213

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    Asthma
    To boil a pot of nettles and drink the juice.
    Goitre
    A sandwich of two thin slices of bread and butter and spread the seeds of nettles between them and eat it before breakfast every morning.
    Yellow Jaundice.
    A basin of daffodils, one pint of beer, saffron of geese. Boil them, strain them and drink them.
    Kidneys
    Boil scutch grass in new milk and drink the liquid.
    Cough
    The dandelion steeped in Spring water and drink it three times a day.
    Three feeds of nettles in Spring is good for the blood.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    C. Murphy
    Address
    Toor, Co. Tipperary