School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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- Toothache
To rub a live frog on your gum is a cure for a toothache. - Liver diseases.
Dandelion is a good cure liver diseases. This is how it is taken; it is boiled in milk and taken for two or three weeks.- Collector
- Robbie Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Mountpleasant, Co. Limerick
- Trush in babies
A baby born after its fathers death will cure trush in other babies by breathing into the babies mouth for three mornings. Also by catching a goose and putting its beak into the patients mouth it will cure trush.
Corns..
A corn can be removed by soaking an ivy leaf in vinegar and then put the leaf on it and put a fresh leaf on the corn every day until it is healed.