School: Cootehill (B)
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: W. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 164
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- If Butcher's broom is boiled and strained, and if the strained water used as a drink, it will cure bladder trouble. Boils the roots of water-dock, then strain the water off them. If this water is drunk it will cure Asthma.Boiled bog-beans sweetened with sugar and used as a drink will cure Bronchitis and colds. Get dandelion leaves, pound them and boil them. Then strain the water off. Sweeten with sugar and sue as a drink. this will also cure Asthma. Cut rose-noble hang it up to dry. When dry boil it and sweeten with milk and sugar. This tea was used as a tonic and as a cure for stomach trouble. Collect the roots of dandelion. Wash them and roast them in an oven. Then grate them with a fine grater and put in an airtight tin. Tea made from this will cure rheumatism.(continues on next page)
