School: An Daingean, Cuinche

Location:
Dangan, Co. Clare
Teachers:
Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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  1. 60
    30-5-38 Cures Whooping Cough.
    To drink a ferrets leavings.
    Spring water with sugar taken fasting.
    To ask a man riding or driving a white horse for a cure for the chincough and whatever cure he would give it is said would cure the cough .
    To drink milk fasting.
    To bury a jar of buttermilk and to take it up after a start and to drink the milk.
    To drink the milk of an ass.
    A tea made from White horehound and brown sugar.
    Carigeen Moss boiled in water and flavoured with sugar and lemon juice and drank occasionally .
    The roots of garlic steeped in whiskey for a couple of days .A spoon of whiskey taken a couple times a dayis marvellous for a cough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English