How to make your own medicine in the bush

Yesterday someone in camp wasn’t feeling well, so we decided to make some dawa (medicine) for them. We thought we would tell you how we made it.

Step 1: Find someone who can give you the ingredients for the medicine from the bush. We have a friend called Mambo who sometimes brings this to us. He knows exactly which bark and leaves are good medicine and where to find them.

Here are the ingredients he collected from the bush:

Step 2: Put your dawa in water

Step 3: Boil it up

Step 4: Enjoy the VERY bitter taste of the dawa, and feel well and healthy again!

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