School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 23
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Dandelions when boiled in water is good for people with a bad heart. Bogbine boiled in water and drank cold is good for asthma. Bouglas is good fro poultices. Centry boiled and the water drank is good for indigestion. Wellink for a cold. Water-cress is good to eat for purifying the blood. Calumy and rice boiled together is good for a burn. Chicken weed boiled and put on a sprain is a good cure. Garlic is good for neuralgia. Groundsel boiled and made into a poultice is good for rheumatism. The seven sisters is good for warts.
Burdock: Cure for sprains.
Aarons Rod: Stops bleeding.
Cowsharmain: Good for kidneys.
Surrages: Cure for bad
Sage: Cure for headache
Healing leaf: Good for healing a wound.
Whein blossoms: Good for purifying the breath also for dying.
Thyme: Good for stomach
Chicken-weed: Good for lowering swelling.
Ivy-leaves: Good for Eczema.
Rippengrass: Good for cuts.
Bluebell roots: Good for boils.
Coltfoot: Good for asthma.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
