School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn

Location:
Callan, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
An Mháthair M. Síle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0853, Page 344

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    blood and liver
    Cranes bill is a cure for morrin in cattle. For people it is boiled in water and taken as a medicine for gravel. For wounds it is bruised and put to the wound
    Southern wood heated in warm water and taken cures a cramp and convulsions and refension (?). Dried and taken as a powder it kills worms in children . If the herb is bruised and put to the finger that a splinter of wood has got into it will draw it out. If the herb is dried and burned and the ashes mixed with olive oil it will cure baldness
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Liathán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baunta, Co. Kilkenny