School: Farnham

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Farnham, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
F. Magahy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 204

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  1. The local herbs around the country are dockins, nettles, chickenweed, ramps, dandelion, hemlock, garlic, comfry, and whins, slan-lus. These were the cures long ago before medicine was made.
    Hemlock was a cure for strains.
    Garlic was a cire for boils, colds, headaches, and pains.
    Chicken-weed is good for curing chickens of the pip, and is also good for turkeys.
    Dandelion is a cure for bad blood, and it is also good for young calves.
    Comfry boiled is good for taking down swellings and sprains, and it good for pigs.
    Ramps cure for loscabuile
    Dockins is a cure for a sting of a nettle when we get a sting of a nettle, we get a dockin and rub it to the sting and say "Dockin in and dockin out take the sting of an nettle out.
    Slan-lus is very good for stopping anything from bleeding, and it also takes out the matter of a sore or cut.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr George Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Drumconnick, Co. Cavan