School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyadams
- XML Page 085
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)festering and is an excellent healer.
Bran and vinegar is put on a sprain.
Pepper and mustard is good for a toothache.
A prod of a gooseberry thorn is a cure for a sty on the eye.
A ferrets leavings is a cure for the whooping cough.
Rub a snail on a wart then hang it on a thorn and by the time the snail is dead the wart will be gone.
Another cure for a wart is to get to an elder tree and rub a growing leaf on the wart without pulling it.
Double the leaf and put a crease in it. By the time the leaf is dead the wart will have gone.
Spanish onions rubbed on chillblains is good.
Bread soda and buttermilk is a cure for a bad burn.
Loaf bread and boiling water is a cure for a festered hand.
Soap and sugar is a cure for a boil.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Séamas O Broin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbally, Co. Laois