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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

What did they use for medicine?
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Native Indians had special men or women, medicine men or medicine women, also called a shaman, who cured sickness in people by means of his or her powerful helping spirits. The sickness itself was often assumed to be caused by spirits.

But the calling in of spirit medicine was used only when the sickness was severe, and worth the feasting and other expenses involved. For more common diseases, like colds, colic and fevers, people would use local herbs, often gathered by women who preserved the directions for preserving and using the herbs. (1)

(1) "Dr. Frank Brouillet,Indians of Washington State, Olympia: 1981, p. 37-38











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