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bush medicine (plural bush medicines)

  1. The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
  2. A plant, preparation, etc., used in bush medicine.
    • 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:
      I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.