Show Indian Medicine I time Old Indian medicine men were not all fakers as most white i have been led It'd to believe ac- ac according ac according cording to Anton Ho Hogstad stad a lead lead- leading log ing In chemist who ho has studied the remedies used by aboriginal doe doe- doc doctors I tors In fact he declares modern practitioners are indebted to the thc Indians for much of their know know- knowledge ledge e of native medicinal plants Primitive Indians were not so soi i hardy and free from sickness as asis asis asis is commonly supposed They suf- suf I sufI cred from rom c colds Intestinal trou bles and many other I ailments due to exposure and im- im improper improper im improper diet The proper medicine men were able to relieve many of these conditions through their knowledge of natures nature's remedies They used Seneca snakeroot for coughs and it is still so 80 used Black snakeroot was given iven for forI I rheumatism ginseng for headaches blue fla flag for stomach troubles and corn smut was used as ns a to childbirth and to stop bleeding Some of the medicine men knew how to produce artificial sleep and Zuni doctors were even able to render patients unconscious while operations were being performed by the use ofa of a n certain root These are only a n few of the native reme reme- dies remedies which had a real value Mr Hogstad believes that the Indian medicine man could have passed modern modera the examination ofa of a mod mod- era ern pharmaceutical board if the questions were ere limited to the tivo na-tivo na na- na tivo medicinal plants of North America |