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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 103

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    The most harmful weeds are thistles, daynettles, and black-heads and buachalans. Black-heads impoverish the land, they do not grow in bad land.
    Buachalans and thistles are harmful because they spread rapidly. Day nettles only grow in cultivated land, they also impoverish the land.
    Shanlass cures cuts it is first chewed and then put on the cut. Garlic cures colds and long ago it was used for vaccinating cattle.
    Dandelion and bogbane purify the blood. Nettles are given to children who have measles, nettles are taken like tea.
    Alicomplane cures burns. Rosenoble cures colds. White Lily root cures boils. Yarrow cures toothache, and headaches. Salentine cures sore eyes. Roasted briar leaves
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neville Hawthorne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Claddagh, Co. Cavan