Top ten ancient Irish homemade remedies and health tips

While not Irish, a great folk cure I experienced from Zagreb in Croatia for a headcold or the flu: Boil 3 parts red wine and 1 part water with a cinnamon stick and sugar to taste and drink it piping hot. Get into bed, cover up very well, and SWEAT it out. It works!

The nettles ..true but not the church part, great for a lot of ailments. carrots yes also have a lot of bettacarotene. The iron ring just about as good as the copper. The sea, I think came from the seaweed coming in with the tide and landing on the person, seaweed is very powerful, for all sorts of ailments. Raw potato definitly helps sooth burns. The mint is also good for rubbing into the skin for muscle or rash. These things are not used to often now because is it easier just to buy remedies over the counter which are definitly not as good and also expensive. People just do not seem to have the time now a days to take what comes from the earth and mother nature.

@166199usmc. I'm sure she did that at Tráigh an Fhíona. (Wine Strand). That's Part of Smerwick Harbor 1 of Kerry specticular beauty spots in the heart of the Gaeltacht & not far from Gorta Dubha.

My Grandmother from Reask, County Kerry said to put your feet in the ocean during August (Specially August 15th) to cure all maladies

Meadow Sweet flowers boiled into a tea with sugar and half lemon can be used as asprin (and it taste good too). It should not be given to children (Rye syndrem) or people that can not take asprin

Meadow Sweet Flowers boiled into a tea eith sugar and a half lemon can be use as asprin (and it taste good too). It sould not be given to children (Rye Syndrem) or people that can not tae asprin.

I forgot, only the Meadow Sweet flowers.

Meadow Sweet boiled into a tea with a half lemon and sugar is a natural asprin (and very tasty too). It should not be given to children because it may cause Rye Syndrem or people that can't use asprin.

I was glad to see one poteen cure here. Surely there are others.

Most of them are superstitious, but if you talk to an herbalist, they will tell you that the raw potato is a remedy for burns, nettle tea clears skin and helps keep hair on your head, while peppermint tea soothes indigestion. I find nettle capsules to be helpful against airborne irritants such as pollen.

A great cure for a bad head cold. A full cup of poteen swallowed in one go. Trust me, head cold immediately gone. So is head.

This reminds me of a time when I was in north Cork as a little boy of 6 or 7yrs. My Grandmother and I were walking a quiet country road when we came across a gypsy woman. She promptly told my grandmother that I was bad luck to all and sundry. My grandmother asked the gypsy was there a cure and indeed there was. She was instructed by the gypsy to cover me head to toe with chicken shite, and that this would cause the bad luck to leave me. So granny and I returned to the farm whereupon she took me to the chicken coop, yup, you guessed it, and smeared me with chicken poop head to toe. Even to this day I've never forgotten or forgiven that gypsy woman.