School: Radharc na Sionainne, Lios Uí Chathasaigh (roll number 10741)

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1. Cures (continued)

   

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   Swelling: Put a cold stone on a penny to the sore spot and it would let is swell
   Rash: Sulphur and treacle mixed together and drank
   Red [?]: Black Tea and bag blue mixed together and boiled.
   Burns: Snow water, put snow into a bottle and let it melt to water. The water is supposed not to let the burn fester.
   Birth marks or Sudden pains. Rub St Martins Blood on.
   Tiks on dogs. Put paraffin oil in their ears. Soot and sulphur and starch to make them eat them.
   Colds: Hot milk and pepper
   Backache:- The cats paw an herb which grows in the mountains.
   The juice of it when boiled and rubbed to the back.
   Headache:- To wash a handkerchief and put it out on a bush St. Brigid's night and put it around your head.
   Ring worm: - The blood of a black cat and the ashes of a pipe. Soda and paraffin oil.
   Sprains or broken bones: - Root of marsh mallow juice of it when boiled and rubbed on.
   Rheumatism: - Garlic boiled and drunk. The juice of a lemon and bread soda drank. The juice of the bog onion rubbed on.
   Rash: - Sulphur and treacle drank and cow dung and sulphur rubbed on.
   Eczema : - The juice of penny leaf rubbed on.
   St Anthony Fire : - St Martins blood. Write your name around [?] Blood of a man named Walshe.
   Toothache : - Salt soda or tobacco put into the tooth. To tie a mouse around the neck.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peig Ní Chonmhaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Furroor, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Nóra Ní Chonmhaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Furroor, Co. Clare