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Traditional plant cures and healing stones.

Fieldworkers
Date May 1964
Track ID 50931
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1964.028.A4

Original Tape ID

SA1964.028

Summary

Traditional plant cures and healing stones.

The contributor remembers that dock leaves were applied to nettle stings. His mother often used plantain to heal cuts and a cow sharn [dung] poultice on wounds. When he went away at the beginning of the First World War, a neighbour gave him a plant she called Achlaisean Chaluim Chille [St John's Wort] to chew on if he was wounded, as it would ease the pain.

There was a stone in the middle of the river that was reputed to cure whooping cough, if the affected person drank water from the hollow. The contributor's brother did this and he was cured.

Item Location

County - Perthshire

Parish - Killin

Village/Place - Killin

Language

English

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good