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Catalogue Number: 25/49
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 at the bottom which represent women sitting in the bush.
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.