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Bush medicine comprises traditional medicines used by Indigenous Australians, being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people have been using various components of native Australian flora and some fauna as medicine for thousands of years, and a minority turn to healers in their communities for medications aimed at providing physical and spiritual healing.
Hibbertia scandens is a climber or scrambler with stems 2–5 m (6 ft 7 in – 16 ft 5 in) long. The leaves are lance-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 30–80 mm (1.2–3.1 in) long and 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) wide, sessile and often stem-clasping with the lower surface silky-hairy.
Ventilago viminalis (Margaret Flockton) Ventilago viminalis seedling in vine phase of life cycle.. Ventilago viminalis, commonly known as supplejack, vine tree or whip vine, [3] is a tree native to Northern and Central Australia from coastal regions of Queensland to the Northern Territory and Western Australia (with occurrences in New South Wales and South Australia).
Collecting bush tucker near Yuendumu. Aboriginal Australians have eaten native animal and plant foods for the estimated 60,000 years of human habitation on the Australian continent, using various traditional methods of processing and cooking. [1] An estimated 5,000 species of native food were used by Aboriginal peoples.
It is known as the eurah or eura bush by many Aboriginal Australians, who use it in bush medicine. [9] [10] The Euraba Artists and Papermakers (established 1998), an art collective, took their name from the eura bush. [11] It is also known as gooramurra in the Jingulu language and kurumbimi in Mudburra. [citation needed]
Stephania japonica, known as snake vine, [2] is a vine often seen in sheltered areas near the sea. Description. A dioecious vine without prickles.
Plants with the common name snake vine include: Hibbertia scandens, a sprawling plant in the family Dilleniaceae;
Juvenile form is a vine, maturing into a woody-stemmed shrub with vine-like stems. Leaves are broad and leathery, 4-9 cm long. [ 4 ] Tubers are rounded, 12-20 cm long by 5-18 cm wide, with a single plant potentially having up to twenty tubers.