School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)
- Location:
- Tullagher, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mrs Winnie Murphy
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- (continued from previous page)Ground Ivy washed and boiled with spring water cures pain in back. The roots of daisies washed and pounded with Ivy leaves, powdered chalk, and boiled with new milk and fresh lard make an ointment which heals and draws any cut., (16) "Watercress" is a cure for a weak heart; it should be eaten fasting - raw - with salt. (17) "Jacob's ladder" boiled on new milk cures weak kidneys. (18) "Celery eaten" raw cures rheumatics. Raw leeks also a cure for rheumatics, As food: Young turnip-tops are nice ad tender; they can be eaten boiled with bacon, and are wholesome and digestible
Raw vegetables are very wholesome.(19) "Lettuce" is a tonic and contains iron. (20) Verwine is the name of a great herb which would cure any disease, but hardly anybody knows this herb or how to use it. Certain would were said while plucking it.
"Verwine of high renown
On Mount Calvary first was found
It cures the sick and heals the wounded
In the name of Jesus I'll pluck it from the ground"