School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Béal an Dá Chab, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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Comfrey ;- Boil this herb, put splints of it to any sore part of the foot or body and it will be cured.
2.
Mint ;- Boil this herb, strain the juice and drink it. This is a cure for stomach trouble.
3.
Herb Robert ;- Tea made of this plant cures liver or heart trouble.
4.
Coltsfoot boiled and drunk is a cure for lung trouble.
5.
To get a cure for Thrush. Get a person who was born after his father's death and get him to blow his breath seven times into the mouth of the person affected with the Thrush.
6.
Triuch;- Put the person who is affected three times over and three times under a she-ass.
7.
Scurvy;- Cut the tail of a black cat and rub the blood to the sore place.
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Jaundice. Cut off a bit of a goat's ear and hang it by a string to the neck of the person affected.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sceach an Óir Thoir, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Sceach an Óir Thoir, Co. Chorcaí