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    Herbal first aid

    Aug 20, 2014 3 minutes
    words by The Perma Pixie photos by Brent Dakis illustrations by Kathleen McCann

    Reclaiming our medicine

    Many wild plants are considered weeds in Australia, but their medicinal uses are powerful. They flourish in abundance, enabling people of all kinds to use simple and effective medicine while ‘weeding’ our landscapes.

    Although the first written records of herbal medicine date back 5000 years, humans have coevolved with, and relied on, plants for food and medicine from the beginning.

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