Shamanism: Medicine In The 19th Century

Stories are often told boy older people about the medicines they used growing up, which were homemade remedies. Those homemade remedies were all made out of natural products. This is what was used in the 19th century. They believed in using plants for all of their healing needs. They used plants to relieve headaches by chewing on bark and plants were used a laxative. “…willowbark…relief of headaches…eating senna plant…relief of constipation” (Levinthal, C.F., 2012, p. 51). Shamanism is a way of healing through natural products, and rituals through trances, this still practiced today. “shamanic knowledge is the capacity to heal both physical illnesses and spiritual disorders….Nowadays, this therapeutic quality motivates a widespread attraction