Chris Kavelin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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I probably would have hacked it down to make room for my path through the forest, you know.
One of the most common uses was fishing, but they also used it in ceremony, in connecting to the spiritual realm and a number of other uses.
So each tribe had different uses.
It interrupts the signals from the inner ear to the brainstem when we have that feeling of disorientation from spinning or roller coasters, boats, that kind of thing.
And this medicine interrupts that signal so that you don't feel the nausea or vomit.
Basically, they arrive from England or other countries.
They have a limited supply of medicines that are useful for them.
And so the Aboriginal people, when the colonists arrive, they have knowledge around healing and medicines and they would share that with the colonists when they arrive to help them.
They'd see somebody with an illness and they would say, here, you can take this, right?
So a lot of that knowledge was shared and the documentation
You know, going back to the 1700s, the first reference of colonists being aware of this plant having specific uses outside of just being a growing pretty plant, you know, that it had certain uses.
He was the Queen's botanist, and he traveled around Australia collecting samples and describing them, but he didn't really focus on the indigenous aspects of the knowledge, although he might reference that he learned about the plant from an indigenous community, but that might be about the most you would see.
One of the main problems was severe shortages of medicines because we'd been at war for a number of years and there were critical shortages in supply chains.
So we actually had medicines that we were using for seasickness that we got from Europe, but that supply had run out.
D-Day was the most critical battle of the century because it enabled the Allies to...
gain access to Europe via pathways that weren't available that would enable them to open up the fronts and overrun the Axis and basically push all the way through to Berlin and defeat Hitler.
It was so rough and choppy that they would have nausea and seasickness and would be basically rendered incapacitated to fight.
That feeling that you have
before you throw up is just completely incapacitating.
All of your senses are directed towards this feeling of needing to get something out of your body.
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