Scoil: Doire na Groighe (B.), An Bhán-tír (uimhir rolla 7450)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Cures (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   and also by washing the face in the dew of the grass before sunrise on May morning.
   Skin disease was cured by boiling the bark of the alder tree and mixing it with fresh lard and sulphur. This heals all skin diseases. For incurable diseases they boiled red dandelion in water and the water juice was given to the patient to drink. They also gave white bread with plenty of currants in it. To have good health for the year - they ate three meals of nettles boiled during the month of May - it prevented sickness for the year. To cure itch - they rubbed it with urine. and when they burnt themselves they blew their noses on the burn and left it to dry. Sprains were rubbed with goose grease before the fire. A crock of this was always kept in every house. To prevent baldness they rubbed burnt leather mixed with fresh lard on the patches and castor oil was also used.
   For Yellow 'janders" they steeped the seeds of the Barberry tree in porter and the patient drank the liquid.
   To cure a stye or craobh - rub it with a gold wedding ring or wash it with cold black tea.
   To stop bleeding - put a key down the back of put a wad of paper under the upper lip and lie

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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