School: Liagan (Leggans) (roll number 6639)
- Location:
- Leagans, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 113f
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- Collected by Mary Sweeney, Drimadart, Inver.
1 If stung by an insect rub the part with a freshly gathered plantain leaf and the irritation will cease.
2 Small cuts and such injuries may be successfully treated by gathering a handful of plantain leaves washing them well put into a jug add half a pint of boiling water. Let it become tepid, stir occasionally then bathe cut or sore with infusion.
3 The same infusion, but in proportion of one ounce to a pint of water, may be taken internally by suffer[er]s from piles.
4 For a bleeding at the nose gather green sloes put into a jar without any water stand jar in a pan of boiling water for an hour or two strain through a hair sieve throw away stones and pulp. Put juice into a clean sauspan and boil for fiveteen minutes. Allow to cool bottle and store. When nose bleeding is troublesome sufferer sniff juice up the nose.
- Collector
- Mary Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumadart, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Mc Geever
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Female
