School: Tuaim Gréine, Lúbán Díge
- Location:
- Tomgraney, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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- To drink Dandelion boiled in milk is a cure for Rheumatism.
To eat garlic is a cure for Rheumatism.
To rub water from a limestone rock to warts would cure them.
To put a cobweb to a bleeding wound would stop it from bleeding.
If you put chewed rib grass to a bleeding wound would stop it from bleeding.
A cure for sore lips is to rub your fasting spit to your lips.
Pour rem on them and they would get better.
A cure for the Whooping Cough is to make a hole in a slice of turnip and drink the juice.
A cure for a sting of a wasp is to rub blue to it.
Rub a dog leave to sting of a nettle and it would cure it.
A sudden pain can be cured by making the worm's knot three times.
A headache is cured by drinking the juice of onions.
Walking on grass when the dew is on it would cure chilblains.
A dog that had fits can be cured by giving him sulphur or copper to eat.
To drink the juice of garlic is a cure for a cough.(continues on next page)