WHILE NOT DISMISSING the relevance of bush medicine, Dame Selma Jackman is cautioning about using folk remedies in trying to cure diseases.
She was responding to a question from a member of the audience as to the benefits of bush medicine following her near 45-minute presentation as guest presenter at the annual Olive Trotman Memorial Lecture organised by the Barbados Public Workers’ Cooperative Credit Union Limited Friday night.
The theme was An ode To The Overlooked – A Reflective Journey On The Making Of A Dame and it was dedicated to unsung heroes.
“It is just that when you go straight to the bushes – there are helpful ingredients in the bushes that are used for medical purposes, but the only snag is that there are lots in there that we don’t know; what effects they will have . . . so it is as if our doctor medicine is the refined part of the bush medicine,” she said during the session at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. (JS)
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