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Plants, Spirits, and Healing
A man lies on the ground screaming in pain. Others around him get
the shaman or medicine man. The shaman calmly walks up to the man with a
few things in his arm. Among them are needles made from thorns, threads
from vines to sew up the man's wounds, and the last t ....
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.... would be applied after the
ceremony.
The shaman have different uses for different kinds of plants. The
squawroot also know as the multipurpose plant is a traditional remedy in
some North American Tribes. It eases nerve and muscle pain, arthritis,
headaches, cramps and other muscle spasms, asthma, and it also reduces
swelling and soreness in the throat. Most of the time just the dried roots
and underground stems are used. In South America chewing coca leaves was a
way of starving off hunger, exhaustion, and numbing pain and fatigue.
Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional reme ....
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