Emu Apple: Barnarr

Bush Medicine

 

Marble tree. Owenia vernicosa. The bark of this tree is great for healing cuts and the fruit for healing boils. The fruit is food for the emu, but not good to eat for the people. However eating the emu provides the fruit medicine for the people. In this way the emu and emu apple work together to provide medicine for the people.  Yidumduma identified Petalostigma Pubescens in the Jawoyn Plant & Animals book (p99) also as emu apple.

 

Transcript

now

this one here what we call a bunner

one of the tree yeah you got some fruit

up top there

but i’ll pull some fruit down after you

can have a look

and i watch this for we usually

for all the medicine yeah one of the

other big cuts

to bark off this very very strong

when you boil it here’s a big cut

pulls all the meat and everything

together

with this bark but i’ll just trim this

back off first and you can have a look

it’s very easily sit down and i guess

take a piece off

very red

now uh when i take the bark off you can

see the

pure red color in there

that’s a part of the very strong

medicine

you can see how that red color come off

here red see i’ll just trim them off

see how when you get them out

that’s the roll of medicine in there in

the wood

see the red pit

and i’ll cut them off like this and i’ll

cut some more

see how red is jesus that’s beautiful

red

medicine that’s the best medicine

in the country one hour

very big cut from anything

even if you fall off the cliff or you

got a big fat cut in your feet

or you might have fell off and the sharp

stick can have a big

big hole in your body and your leg

whatever

this is the best medicine ever seen

just for us someone was struggling to

move around because the leg will swell

and everything and then what did you do

go down get the bark off this

make a fire and then crush it all up

like this

and when i used to crush it up like this

and then maybe

when they crush it up it was make it

more soft

easy to boil quick you know

when it was nice and soft you’ll see the

water just come out all red

you come out really red the water will

be red

and then then use the base it

base it to where the cuts were

then they uh and this sort of took all

the paint away

from his cut way out you know

uh you can put it in like this

didn’t take long to cure that big cut

overnight you sort of pull all the meats

together

i think when you base it then they uh

you must have a very big pain

probably 15 minutes the wall of pain

will go away

because this will burn some

the pain the the saw

you know then take the pain away and

then he’d be

feeling real good even if he had a

feet swollen up you know in another word

you call it like a high blood pressure

going up

but this one will release all of all the

joints

and all of what we call a string in

aboriginal way but all the chinua

genu and all the muscles all the blood

circulation

and all them you know and then he’ll

bring it and bring it back to normal

and then they uh if you went to sleep

overnight uh wake up next morning you

didn’t hear any sound of him from

grounding or twisting a lot like we

watched before

and this one will shut up bring him back

and i hit up a

decent sleep and he wake up next morning

he can eat good breakfast before then

when he had the pain and everything he

couldn’t eat at all

in the past while bringing out a lot of

initiation from the trouble mark you

know

and after the cut they use a water off

this too

to stop them from getting pain and itchy

you know and then they get healed up

properly

that’s from bonner bark now

and i’ll get that fruit there but we

can’t eat that fruit because you saw

brackets because it’s a medicine

it’s sort of strong you know to eat

but all in you you can eat that

you know you can eat that old apple

because that’s part of the fruit

but for us we can’t eat him but when we

kill

emu to eat because he’s already eating

this stuff here

the meat itself has have a lot of

fertilizer adding from

to him apple we can eat that and that’s

putting the medicine in our body too

also when we eat the whole

olympia you know and that’s we’re

working together with

with the hemi apple then i’ll get that

little nut there and then you’re gonna

have a look when i open it up here you

know i’ll just open up one and have a

look

that’s a really medicine item green one

they had very good strong

medicine but if you boil it in the water

it’s different in a different

pot this little green one

this little green one used to boil it

separate

it was good for boil you know you had a

bad boil in your

knee or your hip wall wherever you’re at

and then you can go ahead and baste it

with this one with the red one that

and when you’re bathing with that and

that was really number one

that’s the best the best medicine for

the big cuts and boil

this banana yeah you know

i see in the bush we’re gonna have a cut

we can look around find the trees

and we can get it affectionate no need

to go down to the hospital

you know if you’re close to the hospital

yes go to hospital

but here in the bush we can come up and

get this we come to get banner

and they sit there

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