Aboriginal Australians Medicine

Aboriginal Australians' medicine is based on the use of herbs and plants as remedies for various health issues.

It is the medicine used by humanity long before drugs were invented.

And many of today's chemical drugs are based on the elements that can occur naturally in plants.

Probably that is why people are recognising more and more the healing power of plants, and herbal medicine is now making a revival.

Many Australian native plants have strong fragrances and are today used in aromatherapy.

For example, tea tree and eucalyptus oil are good as an inhalation for relief of coughs and symptoms of flu or as a massage of the chest or back.

Exposure to heat or cold, bites of insects or animals, toxic fruit could cause sores, wounds or other illness.

And in the desert, the only medical knowledge available in the past was that transmitted from one generation to another about remedies offered by plants.

So Aboriginal medicine put leaves and bark of various trees and shrubs to good use.

Healing Plants Used by Aboriginal Australians

Here are some of the Australian plants that we saw there.

Its leaves are ground, mixed with fat and used as a medicinal balm.

Aboriginal people were also burning the bark, grinding the charcoals and applying them on sores and lesions.

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