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   for about two hours.
   Then they are squezed and the matter allowed to cool when the fluid extracted from the roots maybe used like any other medicine. Blue-bells and daisies and buttercups are supposed to grow only in poor land.
   Cabbage and lettuce and the vegetable marrow are used by people because they are supposed to be healthy foods.

   

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   The most harmful weeds growing on the farm are nettles, thistles, dock-leaves, groundsels or rag-weed, and ferns. Thistles, nettles, dock-leaves and ferns grow where land is good. The chicken-week is very harmful because

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Michael Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knocknaloman, Co. Cork