School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

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   My grandmother told me that the people used to take it every Spring.

   Nettle Sting
   Get a cold leaf and keep it on the place where the nettle stings you.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   Mumps Tie a rope round your legs and get some one to drive you in, and out three time. Thrush Boil a turnip and put brown sugar on it, and drink the juice of it. Wildfire Some old people have a cure for wildfire. They get clay from under a lone bush, & shake holy water on it & you, and they have to cross your hands with silver. Rose Get flour and roast it at the fire and rub it on the sore. Ringworm Gives it a good hard rub or a brush, & then wash it with paraffin. Stys You would have to get some one to rub

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pete Reynolds

   Gender

   Male