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School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher

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Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 322

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    To stop bleeding
    Certain people have special words to say. Other people put moss around the cut. More people cut a cobweb from the wall and roll it tightly around the cut.
    To stop bleeding noses
    Lie on your back or put something cold at the back of your neck and keep your head back
    Burns
    1 Castor oil, or
    2 lime water and sweet oil mixed together.
    Cure for sellings or broken bones
    Cumphery? and marsh mallows.
    Cure for pigs
    There is an herb called pig-root which is used to cure a disease in pigs called the "red soldier" or "swine fever".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Farrell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilkeasy, Co. Kilkenny