School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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- Dandelion.Dandelion is a cure for tuberculosis or consumption, when the disease is at early stages. It can be eaten raw. It is also said that dandelion when boiled is a cure for liver and kidney trouble. Dandelion is also used as a general tonic.
- Nettles.Nettles were used for nourishing the blood, and for blood pressure in olden times. In order to prepare nettles for nourishing the blood, a person would have to boil the nettles in water for about a half an hour. The nettles would then be strained and eaten like cabbage.
- Whitlow.A whitlow is an inflammable sore, which a person gets on the top of his finger. In order to cure a whitlow, you would get a potato and scrape a hole in it. The bits of the potato you would scrape out would be applied to the whitlow. This is supposed to ease the pain of the whitlow.
- Warts.Warts are small hard growths which come on peoples' fingers. Long ago when warts appeared, the people used to catch eels(continues on next page)
