School: Tuaim Gréine, Lúbán Díge

Location:
Tomgraney, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 226

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  1. To drink Dandelion boiled in milk is a cure for Rheumatism.
    To eat garlic is a cure for Rheumatism.
    To rub water from a limestone rock to warts would cure them.
    To put a cobweb to a bleeding wound would stop it from bleeding.
    If you put chewed rib grass to a bleeding wound would stop it from bleeding.
    A cure for sore lips is to rub your fasting spit to your lips.
    Pour rem on them and they would get better.
    A cure for the Whooping Cough is to make a hole in a slice of turnip and drink the juice.
    A cure for a sting of a wasp is to rub blue to it.
    Rub a dog leave to sting of a nettle and it would cure it.
    A sudden pain can be cured by making the worm's knot three times.
    A headache is cured by drinking the juice of onions.
    Walking on grass when the dew is on it would cure chilblains.
    A dog that had fits can be cured by giving him sulphur or copper to eat.
    To drink the juice of garlic is a cure for a cough.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English