School: Clonrye
- Location:
- Clonrye, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 344
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- Jaundice is a complaint that people suffer from time to time. It has got very common. This cure is handed down from generation to generation. The way it is handed down is a man gives it to a woman and a woman gives it to a man. This cure is done with certain herbs that are boiled in a pint of new milk until it is reduced to a half pint. It is then put in a bottle. The patient has to take a glass of this mixture for three mornings fasting. none on the fourth and finish the bottle on the fifth morning. My father has the cure now and he got it from his mother.
- Collector
- Una Mc Caffrey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgramph, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Caffrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgramph, Co. Fermanagh
