Herbs, remedy's and healing

[Tom]

As we are a community of Aboriginal folks who have a long tradtion of holistic healing practices how about we have an ongoing group on the topic?

[DaleandDale]

hi tom this is dale were do you get rat root from

[Tom]

Hi Dale
Rat root is most plentiful in north west alberta. lac saint anne area. and can be gotten from the kelly lake crew.
Great medicine for coughs, sore thoat and the heart actually and good to carry for a safe journey

[DaleandDale]

thank tom I will get a hold of them. they would like to her from you to. also I met a lady friend here that want to take a group out to find the local herbs and medicine for us aboriginal group

[Tom]

I believe you live in a great area for finding wild herbs and medicines

[Carson Poitras]

I am currently on a path in life that is teaching me how to use the different roots, herbs etc.. for healing. We have lots of rat root here but as I am using it to treat people, I have run a bit low this year. I have used the inner bark of both the poplar tree and the birch trees for different kinds of medicines. When mixing medicines of this kind, I am told that adding rat root enhances the properties of the other herbs. I have used the bark of the balsom tree to treat many different types of things, mostly to extract of draw out sicknesses. I have used the lily pad root(very hard to cultivate) as an antibiotic and works quite well. I use bear root for treating ailments of the mind and the stomach, I use sweetgrass and sage both as a smudge and as an additive in different mixtures of medicines. There are som many different types of medicines here in the north that I could go on and on and on.....but for now I will leave you with these for thought for today.
Cheers!