School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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- (continued from previous page)grow a new heart where decayed.
- Valerian is another plant which grows beside rivers and in meadows with a tall stem and white blossoms and with a beautiful aroma. The blossom partly resembles the elder tree. A concoction made from this plant is said to cure consumption.
Dandelion is a plant and a very useful medicine may be concocted from it. It is used by invalids and people run down as a tonic. - The tormental root (called by old people the tormenting root) is sometimes called septfoil. It is a small miserable looking plant which grows on the old ditch or barren soil and is a most powerful remedy for diarrhea in the human being and very seldom fails to cure. It was largely used in olden times for the cattle scour as well.