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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Female

  2. Old Cures

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    1. Celery seed boiled and strained will cure rheumatism
    2. Spanish onions sliced sprinkled with Demerara sugar left overnight form a syrup which cures coughs.
    3. Scraped carrots sliced and boiled and made into a poultice are used as a cure for asthma
    4. Dandelion tea is used as a tonic for the blood
    5. Carrageen moss when washed and boiled is good for the lungs
    Information collected by Ita Murray Dunshaughlin from
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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