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   If briar leaves are gathered and biled it would cure the "white scour" in calves.
   The nettle is another weed. It is very good food for young turkeys when boiled. There is also a feer made from nettle which is called "Nettle Beer".
   (Told by Michael Murray (71) Corry, Rathowen.)

   

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2. Herbs

   

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   The most common weeds on the farm are : thistles, nettles, dock, scutch grass, "Preshaugh", dandelion, chick-weed, "forans", rushes, ferns, comfy, reeds, spearment, Burdock. Thistles grow mostly on good land. Nettles grow everywhere. They are good food for fowl. If you get a sting of a nettle, rub a dock-leaf to it. Don't scratch it, and it will get better. Dandelions are yellow "jaundice" and to eat the stalks will cure blood pressure. Rushes grow in tufts and in low boggy land. Chick-weed grows in gardens, turnips and mangels. It spreads rapidly. It has a white flower. It blooms in the Autumn. It is easy to pull it. Fowl eat it. In winter when people have no vegatables, they gather water cress from drains. It is wholesome. Scutch grass chokes the crops and prevents them coming up.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Marion Murray

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   11

   Address

   Corry, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Michael Murray

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   71

   Address

   Corry, Co. Westmeath