bush medicine

English

Noun

bush medicine (plural bush medicines)

1. The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
2. A plant, preparation, etc., used in bush medicine.
   • 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:

     I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.