School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- Colds1) Put brown paper soaked in turpentine on the chest (Mrs. Bracken, Celbridge in Co. Down)
- 2) For wheesing on the chest boil roods of dandelion and water (Mr. J. Perkins, Celbridge heard here 20 years ago)
- 3) Drink whey for a cold (Mr. Hollingsworth Celbridge, heard in Wexford 20 years ago)
- 4) Boil mullion plant and drink the water cures consumption (Mr. J. Perkins, Celbridge - heard from mother 20 years ago)
- 5) Dandelions boiled down cure colds (Mr. Smyth, Celbridge - heard in Wicklow 30 years ago)
- 6) Slice a turnip and put sugar on it and drink juice (Mrs. Cochrane, Celbridge in Co. Cavan)
- 7) Inhale Friars Balsam for a cold in head or chest (Mr. Anderson, Castletown)
- 8) Take a currant drink or lemon drink going to bed (Mr. Flood, Celbridge - heard in Co. Kilkenny)
- 9) Boil dandelions leaves in a saucepan and eat them. (Mrs. Wing, Celbridge)
- 10) Colds on lips rub with honey (Mrs. Blake, Tara St. Dublin)
- 11) Eat treacle for a cold (Mrs. Smyth, Celbridge, Heard in Tipperary)
- 12) Carageen moss cures colds boil it and drink syrup with lemon juice. (mrs. Hill, Celbridge in Co. Cork)
- Informant
- Mrs Hill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare