Traditional plant cures and healing stones.
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Original Track ID
SA1964.028.A4
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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
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Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good