Bush Medicine

Colleen Morton Petyarre

$285.00

Colleen paints Bush Medicine. 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. When Colleen was a child, she was taught about bush medicines and how to collect them from her mother and grandmother.