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   “Garlic is used for a very bad form of mumps.”

   

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   for the yellow- jaundice. Carrigeen moss is used for coughs and is got on the sea shore. Ivy leaf is great for burns Briar leaves are used for colds. A dogleaf is a cure for burns of nettles People say that the wild tea cures cancer It grows in the ditches. Groundsel is used for feeding birds. Some people boil nettles and eat them. There was a herb called gladam. First they would pound the gladam and put it to your neck and leave it twenty four hours on. They say it always cured the mumps There is another herb called anlóg. It scatters and destroys crops. There is an old saying about the preasac bhuidhe "one year's growing means seven years' weeding. Garlic is a cure for bad rash on the face

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Quirke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cappacuilla, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Michael Leahy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Tynagh, Co. Galway