aboriginal medicine

Many inequalities in indigenous people's health may result from erosion of indigenous culture. (Page 2). Restrictions on indigenous peoples' cultural practices have resulted in the reduction of indigenous traditional medicines. (P 88) Aboriginal people have lost their freedom to practice traditional treatments and eventually have to adapt to inappropriate Western medical culture. The purpose of this paper is to study the advantages of indigenous indigenous treatment of indigenous peoples and to explain why these traditional methods last long after the introduction of Western medicine.

Aborigines and the Torres Strait Islanders are very convinced of traditional medicine that greatly affects health. Anna Warren, an elderly elder and medical woman, stated that the core of traditional national medicine is "spirit". She said that the better the body, the better the spirit. She added that intensive listening is necessary to connect with the spirit. For these indigenous peoples, they feel that Western medicine is alienated and feel uncomfortable, so they avoid seeking treatment. In addition, many indigenous peoples have not been given medical system due to previous negative experience (ie racial discrimination and abuse), they are receiving services.

Indigenous people have accumulated knowledge of large amounts of animals and plants and the foods and medicines they offer. Indigenous people call these foods and medicines, jungle food and shrub medicine. There are various jungle food and shrubs in Australia where it is appropriate for those who know to find it. Indigenous communities and family destruction during the conquest of Australia led to the loss of information on the collection, preparation and use of jungle medicine. However, as Western society becomes more interested in other forms of treatment and naturopathy, efforts are made to document and publish knowledge on indigenous people's jungle and shrub medicine.

Canadian medicine began centuries before France settled on the North American coast, but since the Aboriginal people told verbally their tradition, the only written documentation of their customs and beliefs was a white explorer And was recorded by the settlers. Aboriginal peoples usually seek treatment of shamans and medical personnel. They also have some very effective phytotherapy (eg, wintergreen oil, Blood roots, high cranberry clump, see original use of plants), sweat cabin and massage to treat the disease and so on Use the physical procedure of. Jacquartier learned from indigenous people that treatment (wine with branches and white spruce or a barking tsuga) treated scurvy that scarcely destroyed his French explorer team. Following long-term exposure to European settlers and their imported epidemic diseases (eg see measles, typhoid, typhus, diphtheria, indigenous people's health), indigenous medical systems began to collapse.