What’s Inside A Medicine Bag?

What’s Inside A Medicine Bag?

In this week’s video, Grandmother Kim talks about what goes inside a medicine bag and shows us a variety of types of medicine bags that are used today. She discusses cedar, sweetgrass, tobacco, and sage and talks about their traditional uses. If you’d like to learn more about tobacco you can check out Everyday Wellness – Traditional Tobacco. In the video, Learning About Sweetgrass, which we shared last week, Grandmother Kim teaches us about the traditional medicine sweetgrass and its historical uses. Finally, if you’d like to explore the traditional medicine Cedar or Gishiik, as Grandmother Kim calls it, you can visit the Everyday Wellness article, Cedar.