School: Redwood (roll number 11912)
- Location:
- Redwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighréad Nic Chormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 192
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- Dandelion garlic nettles Dock Leaf.
Marshmallow Eagermoney Celery
Dandelion lead eaten raw for Liver trouble. Roots boiled with sugar + lemons for Cough-Cure. Garlic eaten or boiled on milk for Coughs, given to calves a few hours old, as a cure for Black-leg. Some give it mixed with butter as a first meal to the young calf before he drinks milk for the first time others give it as an inoculation in the animals' shoulders.
Dock weed is rubbed on a nettle scorch to counteract the pain + keep down blisters
Nettles are boiled and eaten in Spring as a blood-purifier for young people. They are also given to young chickens + turkeys to keep away the "Peck" on Pick or Pip
Marsh-mallow was pounded up + minced with lard for an ointment dry leaves were also boiled + provided with lard for a burn Adam's needle a herb used for toothache
Ringworm was cured by eating boiled nettles
Celery was boiled + the syrup drunk as a cure for rheumatism
Eagermoney was brewed and drunk as a tea
Sow-thistle milk or juice was a cure for Warts
