School: Cnoc Bhruis (Mount Bruis) (roll number 15158)

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1. Herbs - Herbs for Personal Ailments

   

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   In the townland of Toor three miles from Tipperary town herbs were very much used. The "slanless" washed and cut up cured cuts. The juice of a dockleaf was put to peeling lips; a dockleaf also cured nettle rash. The root of the dandelion steeped in sour milk cured warts, the of the stem of dandelion was a cure for teeth aches. The laurel leaf was boiled in lard and reduced to pulp, the mixture was applied to urns to cure them. Robin-run-the-hedge was boiled and drank as a cure for chest trouble.

   

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2. Herbs - Herbs as Cures for Animals

   

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   Certain herbs cured diseases in cattle. We heard of ivy as a successful cure for fluke in cattle or sheep; it was prepared by cutting the ivy leaves into bits and mixing it in their food. Another cure was woodbine

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Johanna Bailey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Toor, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Bailey

   Gender

   Female