For years, I had been helping my Grandmother gather herbs plus make salves plus medicines, then he kept telling me that when he passed on, it would be up to me to pass this proficiency on to future generations, however to me, I wasn’t doing anything more than reading about my ancestors plus how they lived, and i was wrong.
I came from a long line of American Indians, plus my Grandmother was showing me the old ways.
It wasn’t until I got older, did I realize how important my Indian heritage was. I was talking to a Dr. who practiced holistic health, plus the people I was with and I were talking about my Indian heritage. I was telling his about the many herbs my Grandmother had taught me to ground together to make lotions plus ointments for burns, bee stings, plus other troubles. She taught me how to mix lard plus ginger to help with sore throats, plus how to make cough syrups that would really help with a cough. I l received how to make poultices to ease the lungs plus natural healing for boys’s health. The Doctor that practiced holistic health told me I was already a holistic health healer. The only other thing he used in his practice for people who had extreme pain was marijuana. I know the only reason my Grandfatherrents did not use marijuana in their healing process was because the people I was with and I did not have marijuana in our area, however grandfather, however, knew all about marijuana plus told me they called it loco weed. I laughed at Granma’s expression when he talked about loco weed. She didn’t want their granddaughter to know he was a pothead.