Medicinal Traditional Cache
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Large ammo can.
In First Nations culture, medicinal plants were valued and respected for their healing abilities. Traditional medicines remain a gift of the creator and should not be bought or sold. Most ailments could be cured using the
medicinal properties of plants and often these were wetland plants.
In western civilizations, it was known since the time of Hippocrates that salicylic acid, a compound found in willows is an effective medication. During the 18th
century, advances in chemistry allowed the active ingredient, salicylic acid, to be extracted and transformed into acetylsalicylic acid,also known as Aspirin.
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