School: Yellow Furze
- Location:
- An Aitinn Bhuí, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Leamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0684, Page 232
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- (continued from previous page)from the thorn bush in May.
Boil 2 bunches of the blossom in half a pint of milk. Drink it in the morning first after warming it to the degree of heat milk fresh from a cow has. The flowers keeps good if well sprinkled with salt and tied down tightly in a jar which is air tight. Coughs.
Ivy leaves boiled in water till real green and licorice ball and sugar added was the real cure for a cough.
Yellow Irises or more commonly known as "flags" had also a great reputation as a remedy for coughs.
Liver Diseases.
Dandelion milk sweetened with sugar was a great cure for all Liver diseases
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