Learning about traditional healing
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/birch-bark-masgwi-1.4223810
From article:
Two professors at Cape Breton University — a chemist and a Mi'kmaq scholar — have been awarded $150,000 to study the healing powers of birch bark. Tuma Young, assistant professor of L'nu studies, and Matthias Bierenstiel, associate professor of chemistry, are combining traditional knowledge and fundamental science to determine how and why the bark works to soothe skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. "For many years we didn't really know what exactly was in it that was good for it," said Young. "We just knew it was good for it."
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