Bush Medicine

Colleen Morton Kngwarreye

In this painting, Colleen painted bush medicine plants. There are different types of bush medicine in the Central Desert. In the ‘olden days’ the leaves and the seeds of this plant were gathered, ground and mixed with animal fat (today a commercial oil is used) and it is then used as an ointment, or boiled in water for medicinal use. The dot work represents the seeds of the bush medicine plant.