School: Trá Lí (Measctha)
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Doreen Gorman
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0439, Page 003
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- In former times people used plants and other things for cures
Speedwell, a little plant with blue flowers is the cure for the Yellow Jaundice. This plant is boiled in new milk, and the sick person must drink it three times a day until he or she is cured.
"Ground Ivy" is the cure for the "brease bo(?) as the old people called it. Your mouth would be full of blisters when you would have this. You pick ten bunches of "Ground Ivy" and throw away one. Then you dip the plant in fresh (?) and wash the mouth with it.
- Collector
- Seumas Nic Eil
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Kilmoyly, Co. Kerry
