School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)

Location:
Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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  1. The dock-leaf.
    When you get a sting this is a very good cure, to rub the leaf on to the sting.
    The Sow-thistle.
    This is a great cure for warts to cut the thistle and get the milk out of it and but it on the wart.
    The Dandelion.
    This a great cure for the jaundice to boil it along with butter-milk and when it its boiled take out the weed, and drink the mixture.
    Garlic.
    This is a good cure for worms in horses or in cattle, is to put a cut in the skin and put a piece of Garlic inside the skin.
    Oak-bark.
    This is a sure cure for restoring hair to horses knees when they are cut by falling.
    Laurel Leaves.
    When these laurel leaves are boiled in new-milk it is a sure cure for scour in calves.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English