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Episode: The Aboriginal women helping to keep traditional bush medicine alive in Australia
Description: A group of young Aboriginal women is helping to keep traditional bush medicine alive in Australia. They hope their Bush Balm remedy will also be a reminder of home for kidney patients from their community undergoing dialysis in the city.
Using an ancient rock, Tamara Stewart is crushing leaves in her kitchen. She’s preparing a healing balm called “irmangka”—her late grandmother’s favorite bush medicine.
"I used to take bush medicine to my nana, every day after work. Then I lost her at the start of this year," explains Bush Balm team leader Stewart, whose grandmother died of kidney fai...