School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)
- Location:
- Ballynacally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)boiled. Then it is bottled and drank.
The buckoo flower or "Lady's Mantle" is a good cure for a bad stomach and also is a good cure for the Yellow Jaundice.
Watercress is a splendid blood purifier. The leaves if bruised, and rub the juice to pimples and sores will cure them.
The Agrimony is an excellent herb for liver trouble. By pouring boiling water on the leaves and letting the water real for a few hours and to drink a wine glassful three times a day. The leaf made into an ointment with lard is an cure for sores.
The chicken weed made into a poultice and applied to sore eyes will cure them.
The Burdock root is used for curing rheumatism. The leaves if bruised and mixed with the white of an egg is a great cure for burns.
Brooklime roots and leaves when mixed with other herbs are good for lung trouble and coughs.(continues on next page)
