School: Clonbullogue
- Location:
- Clonbulloge, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. Fitzgerald
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0800, Page 156
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Earache: They would boil elder leaves and poultice the ear with the boiled leaves.
Boil leaves of wood anemone and poultice with boiled leaves.
- Cuts:- Poultice with boiled plantain leaves.
Put a withered holly leaf on it. - Sores:- Poultice with boiled elder leaves.
- Swellings:- Boil the leaves of comfrey and bathe the swellings with the water.
- Sore throat: Boil leaves of broom and drink the water. Some bathe the throat with the water.
- Bee Sting:- Honeysuckle (no information as to how used)
- Burns: Boil leaves of Cuckoo Spit and poultice.
