School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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3. Sore Lips. Rub a black snail to it.
4. Boils.
(1)Boil "geosadáns" and put it up to it like a poultice.
(2)Burn a stick in the fire and the water that comes out of the stick cures boils.
(3)Roast raw turnips in the fire and rub them to the boil.
(4)Apply poultice of soap and sugar.
5. Burns
Apply butter or bread-soda or sweet oil and lime water mixed.
6. Nettle-stings
Rub with dock leaf
&.Sting of bees or wasps. Rub with blue.
8.Whooping Cough(Chin cough)
(1)Get groundsel and boil it and drink the water.
(2)The food left by a ferret (milk) cure the chin cough.
Lump on the hand. Press a penny on it.
9. Stomach trouble (1) Mustard is a cure.
(2)The juice of a dandelion is also good. The milk of the dandelion is also a blood purifier.
10. Thrush. (1) Borax and honey. A woman who never saw her father can cure thrush.(continues on next page)
