Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press january learning to Pray to creator aboriginal healer part part spiritual guide by Alexandra Paul staff reporter Kathy Bird lets out a Hearty laugh at sciences reason Why aboriginal sweat lodges promote you just never think of it in those scientific she but sweat lodges Are gaining recognition for having significant Healing factors to said Wayne head of pharmacology at the University of Manitoba medical through a phenomenon called general adaptation the Sauna like environment triggers pronounced physical he the heat raises stress hormones to a level where the body natural defences Are boosting the Power of the immune Lautt said researchers Are taking a hard look at traditional including its herbs and psychosocial Yanli a chinese acupuncture doctor practising in offers clients the Herb from the Kudzu Vine radix Pue pariae Lobata to other although the Herb is very and Well known to Eastern it is not sold in stores in the but to a licensed Public health nurse at the pegu is Reserve North of Winnipeg and a student of herbal Healing does not always come from a bottle purchased Over a sweat lodges Are part of the link she and other traditional healers seek with the essential spirit of she refers to the phenomenon As praying to the in our traditional we see illness As an spiritual and physical imbalance and the medicines Are used to create that balance in people who Are she in the aboriginal there is no division Between body and spirit As exists in Western a traditional healer is part part spiritual guide and part mediator with the Energy that shapes the natural even the simplest remedies have physical and spiritual she for one of the most common herbs in aboriginal cultures across North America is a Root known in herbal books As Sweet its a very versatile Bird physically it has properties for the treatment of kidney and bladder ailments and but you have to talk with the Energy the Ken free press Yanli Cao can offer ancient Eastern b Kudzus Powers touted a1 Plant before it will work she then she must guide on average five a week who seek help through an intricate teaching them How to prepare themselves As Well As the sometimes that Means taking part in spiritual ceremonies such As cleansing sweat lodges or it its far More than a Basic transaction of Cash for you cant Tell til give you Medicine if you give me Bird its up to the patient to set and according to traditional in today society it can be Money but a traditional healer cant charge its up to the person to offer Bird it is partly the fear of commercial exploitation that keeps healers from being More she a lot of our elders Are still really she another Factor in the legendary hesitancy of healers to impart their knowledge is directly related to the ads no longer turning up noses at Folk remedies Impact of christianity on the native a lot of our people Are afraid of the Bird Christian missionaries taught natives that traditional spiritual and medical practices were she they were told it was the work of the Devil and that the old Good and True Way is the Christian Way and that was really reinforced in the residential school Bird in training to become a traditional healer rivals anything it takes to earn a Western my Bird said she was first chosen by an Alberta elder who has selected other students from across he decides whether they have the gift to be an herbalist after observing people and he gives you a Chance to think about Bird she knew the elder for three years before he even approached her As a after eight Shes still learning and the practice has become a Way of first of you have to be a spiritual person and believe in the creator and communicate with the and theres no alcohol and no it could be years before she earns the privilege of being called a i think ill be 60 or 70 and ill still be learning a it never she Dave free press Lautt says science is taking a hard look at traditional herbs and psychosocial some of our most effective cures discovered by ancient tribes by Alexandra Paul staff reporter ancient tribal cultures were masters of Many medi Cal the study of Ethan pharmacology claims one of the things with eth Zophar mycology is that it is important to re Alize How ancient societies devel oped drug it was through said Wayne head of pharmacology at the University of Manitoba medical in the americas indians Dis covered the Healing properties of thousands of the indians of North America had refined a Complex set of Active drugs that produced physiological and not merely psychological of author Jack Weatherford writes in his recent Indian the a Hotseller in also Cornucopia of new pharmaceutical agents became the basis for modern Medicine and among the native discoveries Are some of the worlds most effective according to weather Fords some of weather Fords samples q Willow bark which contains a compound closely resembling Ace Tyl salicylic acid in q a tree bark from for q a Root from the for emetic q sea kelp from the Pacific to prevent iodine deficiency Gaiter Ali q Balsamic fir and other Ever Green foliage in North America for colds and even for Vitar inc deficiency diseases such As q Oil of Wintergreen from North America for pain and q Petroleum Jelly from North America to stimulate Healing for wounds and to keep skin by Alexandra Paul staff reporter the Kudzu Root is just the latest Folk Medicine to attract the gaze of Western Micro laboratories in pharmaceutical companies and universities Are Tak ing a second look at Home remedies from As far away As the Orient and As close to Home As the aboriginal cultures of North and South Ameri there has been a tremendous Effort going into the analysis of herbal said Wayne head of pharmacology at the univer sity of Manitoba medical in most people forget that the drug Industry is founded on Plant de Lautt things like these types of were Well known by North american indians and they were derived from the bark of cer Tain Lautt in Kudzu study coauthor winging Yeung said from har Vard medical school that his re search is being Well received by medical practitioners across the United they Welcome any new reme Yeung concerns have been he but not because his Harvard study focused on an at this its Only been tested in Yeung full recognition will come Only after science has confirmed traditional Folk uses in studies with peo he american researchers Arent nearly As sceptical As they once the Challenge now is to find ways to standardize dosages of effective with widely diverging growth soil Content and disease fac no two plants of the same Spe cies contain the same Quantity of Active Yeung different people May therefore have different experiences with Folk Yeung some people try it and they think its for other people the Folk medicines dont do that gives Folk Medicine a bad barely 30 years ago in traditional Indian practices were Lautt a new area of study based on traditional medical called eth Zophar has As a theres a growing re Spect for the generations of experimentation that have yielded thou Sands of herbal based Lautt they discovered both Active Healing properties of plants through centuries of trial and error As Well As psychosocial practices that make people feel better without re sorting to powerful Lautt 1994 tax discount for properties businesses who City of Winnipeg property owners and what prepayment of All or portions of 1994 realty business Why to receive attractive face value discounts of until january or until february on realty tax prepay and or respectively for business tax these discounts Are equivalent to an annual interest rate of approximately prepayments May be made in person or through the prepayment amounts will appear As a credit on the 1994 tax where in person prepayments can be made at City 510 main and at the Boniface Community 219 Provencher cheques payable to the City of Winnipeg can be sent to the City 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