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This is a painting about the bush medicine plant found in Central Australia. After a big rain the plant starts to grow tiny flowers and green leaves.
While the leaves are green the local Aboriginal women go out into the bush and collect these leaves. The painting shows curved symbols which represent women sitting, they have a digging stick beside them and an oval bowl called a coolamon. The coolamon was used in the old days to collect fruits and seeds in to.
The women prepare the bush medicine by crushing the leaves and boiling them in water. This makes a healing medicine that helps with colds, flu, pains and skin irritations..
Aboriginal people have been using bush medicine to heal themselves for generations. Older women teach the younger ones how to find the leaves and how to prepare the medicine.