A traditional remedy, typically one of Aboriginal origin.
they regarded European medication as a poor substitute for bush cures
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result, many Maori remedies or 'bush cures' have arisen.
- It was an old bush cure for anything short of broken limbs.
- This is an A1 bush cure for sickness.
- The Moca-Moca plant is a well known bush cure.
- When one old prospector became ill with beri-beri, she gave him the bush cure — liquid from boiled cabbage, roots and all.
- One of my first teachers of bush cures was a five-year-old girl.
- So complete is the bush cure that the Melbourne doctor says the child could safely be returned to the city.
- A bush-cure comes in handy when someone feels crook.
- He was unabashed, asking people to recommend a bush cure for this or that ailment.
- It is a disease for which no medical or local bush cures exist.