Long ago the people had cures for certain diseases. They were able to cure themselves from different herbs for sore eyes the people got the juice of a snail and rub it on the sore eyes and they would be cured.
If a person had a cut on their hand and to get a cobweb and put it on the sore it would be cured.
If a person had boils and to rub 'muc na gCaorach' of it they would be healed. 'Muc na gCaorach' is a flower and it is found in the boggy land
A person who never saw their father he had a cure for sore lips. If he breathed on the person who had sore lips he would be cured.
For a sore ear they old people reddened an iron and let a drop of water on it. They held it over the sore ear and let a drop of it fall into it and they were cured.
They made a bottle from "slamog" for sores