Australian Aborigines. Diseases of the joints, bones, and muscles
| Indigenous treatments | |
|---|---|
| Fractures | - splinting |
| Rheumatism | - emu oil liniment |
| - hot ash massage | |
| - seated in hot ash mount | |
| - steam vapour bath over smouldering fire | |
| - animal urine as rubefacient | |
| - local bleeding with scarification, then suck afflicted part | |
| - dried and powdered sheaoak apple | |
| - fumigation over a smouldering fire on which green leaves had been thrown (Acacia lysiphloia or pinggi waterweed) | |