- Title
- Healing
- Creator
- Clark, Ian
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179287
- Identifier
- vital:15550
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781486306114
- Abstract
- Plants feature prominently in Aboriginal remedies chiefly used to relieve symptoms such as fever, congestion, headache, skin sores, tired or swollen aching limbs and digestive problems. Treatment can involve drinks, washes, massages and aromatherapies. The drinks are made by heating water with plant additives, and in Aboriginal English are commonly referred to as ‘tea’. Since European colonisation, washes are prepared by boiling plants, with the cooled liquid applied externally to the body. Some plants are heated, then rubbed or massaged into swollen parts of the patient’s body. The aroma of plants is generally transferred to the patient through contact with steam and smoke (Clarke 2008b, pp. 12– 13).
- Publisher
- CSIRO publishing
- Relation
- Aboriginal biocultural knowledge in South-Eastern Australia Chapter 12 p. 209-228
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © Fred Cahir, Ian Clark and Philip Clarke 2018
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- Ethnobiology -- Australia, Southeastern; Aboriginal Australians
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