Now, this one here what we call Barnarr.
Barnarr tree, he got some fruit up top there,
…I’ll pull some fruit down after, you can have a look.
…what’s this for, we use it for…medicine.
When you have a big cut, the bark of this…very strong,
when you boil it, heals the big cut, pulls all the meat and everything together, with this bark.
…I’ll just trim this bark off first and you can have a look.
…I’ll sit down, and I’ll just take a piece off…very red.
Now, when I take this bark off, you can see the pure red colour in there.
That’s the part of the very strong medicine.
You can see how that red colour come off,
pure red, see, I’ll just trim him off.
See how, when you get him out, that’s all the medicine in the wood, see the red bit there.
…I’ll get him off like this, and I’ll cut some more.
See how red is it, that’s beautiful red medicine.
That’s the best medicine in the country when you have a very big cut…
even if you fall off the cliff, or you got a big bad cut in your feet,
or you might have fell off on the sharp stick and have a big hole in your body and your leg…
This is the best medicine ever seen…
someone was struggling to move around, because the leg all swollen…
and then what we used to do, go down and get the bark off this,
make a fire and then crush it all up…
…when they would crush it up like this…
it makes it more soft, easy to boil, quick,…when it was nice and soft.
You’ll see the water just come out all red, it come out really red…
then they… used to baste it…to where the cuts were,
and this…took all the pain away from his cut…
…you put it in like this. It didn’t take long to cure that big cut.
Overnight, it…pulled all the meat together…when you baste it.
…he must have had a very big pain, probably fifteen minute, then all the pain will go away,
because this will burn him, the pain, the sore…take the pain away and he’d be feeling real good,
even if he had his feet swelling up…like, high blood pressure going up.
…this one will release all the joints and…what we call string in the Aboriginal way,
but all the sinew…and all the muscle, all the blood circulation…
and then he’ll bring it…back to normal.
…if you went to sleep overnight, you wake up next morning
you didn’t hear any sound of him from groaning or twisting…like he was before,
…this one will…bring him back, and he’ll have a decent sleep,
and he wake up next morning, he can eat good breakfast.
Before then, when he had the pain…he couldn’t eat at all.
In the past where the Aborigine had a lot of initiation for the tribal mark…
and after the cut they used the water off this…to stop them from getting pain and itchy,
and they got healed up proper way. That’s from old Barnarr bark now…
I’ll get that fruit there…We can’t eat that fruit because it’s so brackish, because it’s a medicine.
It’s…strong…to eat, but old Emu…can eat that…He can eat that…apple.
That’s part of their fruit, but for us, we can’t eat him.
…when we kill an emu to eat….he’s already eating this stuff here,
the meat itself has a lot of fertilizer…from the Emu Apple.
We can eat that and that’s putting the medicine in our body too…when we eat the old Emu,
and that’s all working together with the Emu Apple.
…I’ll get that little nut there and you can have a look when I open her up here…
…..open up one now and have a look.
That’s…really medicine…that green one. They have very good strong medicine,
but if you boil it in the water…in a different pot, this little green one.
…used to boil it separate, it was good for a boil,
if you had a bad boil in your knee or your hip or wherever…
Then you can go ahead and baste it with this one, with the red one…
when you baste it with that, that was really number one.
That’s the best…medicine for big cuts and boils, this Barnarr here…
Us in the bush, we can have a cut, we can look around,
find the trees, and we can get it to fix it, no need to go down to hospital…
If you’re close to the hospital, yes, go to hospital.
But here in the bush, we can come home and get this…
We come to get Barnarr, and that’s it there.
