School: Stonehall, Cora Caitlín
- Location:
- Stonehall, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Páidraig Mac Cormaic
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- The following herbs injure the land: thistles, nettles, squitch-grass, ferns, [?] buide, [?], wild garlic, crow's toe
Dandelion: Wine which cures liver-trouble is made from it
Turkey-grass: is good for the heart
Dog-leaves: cure nettle-stings
Nettles: If you eat boiled nettles in the beginning of winter you will not get a cold during winter. Boiled nettles (young nettles) are good for bad blood.
Ivy-leaves are used to clean clothes.
Marsh-mallow cures Rheumatism. Turkey-grass also cures this disease