School: Knockcommon (roll number 16549)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   it in the ear. If people have warts on their fingers they cure them by dipping them in forge water or by rubbing washing - soda on them. There is another weed to be found with a small white flower on it, when the stem of this is broken, it gives forth milk which if applied regularly to a wart will cure it. The milk of this is sometimes called 'Daisies milk'. Scalded buttermilk taken at bedtime is a good cure for a cold.
   An old cure for a bleeding cut is to shake the powder of a bouchan barrow on it. A bouchan barrow is something like a mushroom. They are collected, dried and kept in the house for such purposes. They are sometimes called fioc mushrooms. Once upon a time a local man got ran over with a cart, and he would have bled to death only that the powder of a bouchan barrow was shook on the cut.
   A poultice that was used for a strained ankle was cumfery root ground up fine and mixed with the white of an egg. This was then applied to the strained ankles and was always successful.
   Josephine Dwyer,
   Rathina
   Beaufasc.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josephine Dwyer

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Rathdrinagh, Co. Meath