What is the medicine?
Medical bag is a case that contains objects that are of particular importance to the owners. Each medicine is individual as its owner, so no two medicines will have the same content. Objects usually contained in the medicine include herbs, stones, shells, feathers, animal skins, fur, teeth or claws. The medical bag is often worn for protection, healing or leadership and is closely associated with the spiritual life of the person who wears it. This holy case is usually made of leather and often sports painted or bead design. Some bags have long downloads and can be worn around the neck. Others are inserted into a pocket or handbag or can be attached to the belt and worn at the waist.
It is assumed that the use of medicine bags began more than 5,000 years ago. Frozen remnants of a neolithic man who lived around 3,300 ° C. They were found in the Alps in 1991. He had a drug bag and traces of medicinal plants were found in the stomach.
Many of the Early Medicine bags were large bundles that were transmitted and not worn. Shamans and medicine men kept medical packages full of ceremonial objects, which often consisted of sacred herbs such as sweet grass, sage and cedar; dirt, pine cone or stone from a sacred place; rattle; Quartz crystals; and ceremonial headbands. The indigenous Americans in some tribes carried around a drug package of modern women depositing their wallets.
The concept of Indian medicine is different from the traditional Western view. Medicine in the traditional Indian faith system denotes more than treatment. It also concerns magic, ability to contact ghosts and receive signs and leadership from them.
The animals are prominently standing in the view of the indigenous American world and the representation of one or more animals is often preserved in the pouch. The stone is roughly shaped like a bear, an ENT, a wolf or other sacred animal for individuals usually added to the drug. ThereforeE person undergoes various life experiences, adds memention, has found sacred objects such as feathers or animal claws, and other objects with the special meaning of his medicine. Many native Americans still use drugs. Some people who are not an indigenous American, but who are interested in this culture and spiritual tradition, use medical bags in honor of this tradition and as part of their own spiritual paths.