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Here are some of the plants we use for bush
tucker and for bush medicine.
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Bunaangu
You only eat the sap on the bunaangu. It has a bitter taste. You boil it up to drink.
It helps toothache and a bad chest. |
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Garliwirri
You can use the garliwirri as a bush food or a bush medicine. To eat it you put it in
the fire. It has a fleshy part inside like a coconut and you chew it like chewing gum. To
use it as a bush medicine you cook it, smash it up and put it on your hair. It keeps it
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Buduway
You only use the young shoots of the buduway. You boil it up when you are sick. |
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Gardangu
You pick this straight off the tree and eat it. You can crush it up, put it in hot
water too. |
Malhanggaa
This bush medicine is called lemongrass by white fellas. It is best when it is dry for
headaches and colds. |
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Guluwirn
You use the guluwirn as a broom. |
Bajila
This plant, the bajila, produces fruit. When it is raw it is green and shaped like a
football. When it is ripe it is yellow on the outside and red on the inside.
You suck on it and spit out the seeds. |
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Bilhangarra
The white fellas call this plant a cork bark. You use it like the bark of the camel
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Bardirri
The camel tree (Bardirri) is used for bush medicine. You burn the outside bark in a
fire and rub the ashes in your hands. Put it on your body to keep yourself cool. |
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Bungaa
The bungaa has black berries that you eat raw. |
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Biwiyu
You boil up biwiyu and wash your eyes with it |
