School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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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.