School: Raharney (C.)
- Location:
- Ráth Fhearna, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs. Conway
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- Dandelion leaves cure liver disease when boiled and strained.
Featherfew cures liver disease and kidney and stomach diseases. The leaves are boiled, strained, the juice is put in a clean dry bottle and corked. A tablespoon is taken fasting in the morning. Nettles are suppose to purify the blood and keep a person free from colds all the year. The nettles are boiled with a little salt in the water. The are strained and put through a sieve. Butter paper and salt is put on them. Then the are eaten. The nettles must be young. A dock-leaf cures a nettle sting. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Mrs O Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 32
- Address
- Priesttown, Co. na hIarmhí