Thanks Two Wolves Dancing, I hadn't thought about it that way before. The only problem with me using Cherokee medicine is no one has ever taught me. There's not too many people around where I live who use it. I'd love to learn it though, what do you recommend? ----Original Message Follows---- From: "TwoWolvesDancing" <twowolvesdancing@comcast.net> Reply-To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] No Indians in KY /... / KY, old time ways / medicines Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:17:52 -0500 Hi Lindsey, I am going to give you one piece of advise, take it or leave it... DO NOT MIX MEDICINES. If you are Cherokee, don't add this and that... it will only come to no good. I have heard this sage old advise from many, many Elders and Medicine People who are good at what they do. What you in essence are saying is that Cherokee Medicine is not that strong and that I have to supplement it with this or that. This is not a good idea. What you put out, will come back to you... good or bad. When I was helping my dad... I did Creek Medicine with him also, but not at the same time since dad was part Creek. I learned a few things from an old Creek-Muskogee Medicine Man. Dad had Creek, Muskogee, Cherokee, and Catawba... plus a few others from way back in his ancestral line. Creek, Muskogee, Cherokee, and Catawba are all from the Southeast and all have pretty much access to the same or very similar plants. I could use Medicines from any of these Tribes on dad as he had their blood flowing through his veins. I did some, but not at the same time. I read some research a long time ago that stated that doctors working on Native Americans found that their Native patients did much better when they also used Medicine from their Tribal affiliation in conjunction with modern medicines. Something to think about. Dolores 'TwoWolvesDancing' (Cobb) Phifer aka Sparkle "Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world" Daniel Webster ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindsey Avery" <anathema_studio@hotmail.com> To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] No Indians in KY / Shawnees, Miquons, Susquehannas, Susquehannocks / KY, old time ways > hehehe actually I know exactly what you're talking about, Sparkle. > I use my "feelings" most of the time to guide my decisions. They've kept me > out of a lot of trouble, and I usually get good warnings about things to > come in dreams or just feeling what I call "presense" that give me a "heads > up" about what's coming. I've even had some all out visions. My friends say > I have a "satellite dish". ;) I don't know much about the old ways > unfortunately. But I've got my own ways that seem to have come from > somewhere unknown, because no one else taught me anything. Course I've been > searching for the source of these experiences for years, never quite found > it. I've studied the Qabbalah, multiple pagan beliefs, Buddhism, Taoism, > ancient Sumerian and Japanese beliefs, and, though I've found similarities, > I still haven't quite found exactly the same thing as with me. > On the same note, since no one around me really believes in these things, > its hard when I get warnings about my friends or family and can't help them > because they won't listen. Like my fiance, he had a head on car accident > yesterday. I'd had a dream about it, and had been telling him something was > wrong with the way the car "felt" for days now. But people around me tend to > treat dreams, and premonitions about things like they aren't real. So > usually all I can do is watch the bad things happen. ==== CHEROKEE Mailing List ==== <<>OPEN forum to all Cherokee topics - except Genealogy<>> <>Culture-History-Language-Folk lore and Truths<> Good Manners & Language is required to be on the list ALL the links you will need to sub and unsub or contact listowner below http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Native/CHEROKEE.html ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx