Week 11 Notes on Traditional Healing and Medicine

**Week 11: Traditional Healing and Medicine** A close-up of a medical information Description automatically generated **Ceremonies and Practices** Practices are legal rights and protected by legislation and healthcare organizations must take reasonable steps to accommodate them. 1. Smudging 2....

**Week 11: Traditional Healing and Medicine** A close-up of a medical information Description automatically generated **Ceremonies and Practices** Practices are legal rights and protected by legislation and healthcare organizations must take reasonable steps to accommodate them. 1. Smudging 2. Pipe ceremony 3. Water ceremony 4. Drumming and singing 5. Qullig (traditional oil lamp) 6. Sharing/healing circles 7. Sweat Lodge **A Call to Action: TRC** Health 22. We urge the Canadian healthcare system to integrate Aboriginal healing practices, collaborating with Aboriginal healers and Elders when requested by Aboriginal patients. **Food as Relationship** Food sovereignty is the right to control local, sustainable, and culturally relevant food systems, emphasizing decision-making power over production and distribution. [About who makes decisions about food production and distribution.] Food security focus on access Sovereignty refers to the authority to self-govern without external interference. **4 Sacred Medicines** 1. **Tobacco:** - offered first to Elders when seeking guidance - in Pipe ceremonies and scared fire - to Mother Earth when gathering medicines or giving gratitude - to the animals before hunting/fishing 2. **Cedar:** - protection and purification - carries message to Creator - used in sweat lodges - used in medicine as cleansing tea 3. **Sweetgrass:** - *"Hair of Mother Earth"* -- braided to balance mind, body and spirit - Protects and cleanses - Used often in smudging 4. **Sage:** - *"Women's medicine"* - Purifies the mind and body **Medical Contributions** - **Cascara bark:** laxative - **Witch Hazel:** anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, skin irritations - **Blue cohosh:** pregnancy, labour, menstruation  - **Echinacea:** cough and cold, immune support - **Pacific Yew:** Taxol, Taxotere cancer chemotherapy medication - **Willow bark:** pain reliever and anti-inflammatory (ASA) - **Stone seed:** oral contraceptive  **Contributions to Health Care** - **Syringes** - **Baby Bottles** - **Mouth Wash/Oral Hygiene** - **Suppositories** - **Sunscreen** **Contribution to Nursing Practice** 1. **Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture:** first Indigenous Registered Nurse in Canada 2. **Mabel Jones:** first Indigenous nurse to graduate from Women\'s College Hospital nursing school.** ** 3. **Ann Callahan:** one of the first Indigenous nurses in Manitoba, residential school survivor 4. **Canadian Indigenous Nursing Association** formed in 1975 by Indigenous nurses **Jocelyn Bruyere** and **Jean Goodwill. **