creek medicinal plants

The Creek Confederacy ( Guale, Yamasee, Hitchiti,

Tamathli, Oconee, Apalachicolo, Ocmulgee, Yuchi, Chiaha ) were driven from their ancestral lands, which included Alabama & Georgia, starting in the early 1820's. Not all of them went willing.

There are many pockets of Native communities all over the South. For those that left, know you can come back. The knowledge is still here!

Listed are the major medicinal plants used in Creek Medicine.

   tolee  (sweet bay)     ( picture courtesy : mgonline.com ) 

   achina  (cedar leaves)  (picture courtesy: beccafromportland)

                        

   kapapaska (redberry shrub)   (picture courtesy: shaney 442's photostream )

 

   tchul'issa (pine needles)  (picture courtesy : Urban Science Adventures ) 

   atak'la lasti ( blackberry shrub )  ( picture courtesy : Theodor Reimers )

   koha lowagi  ( switch cane ) ( photo courtesy :   jerryoldnettel's photostream )

   okchanatchku ( a moss grown on rocks ) ( picture courtesy : A Storybook Life )

   tchufi masi ( sugar cane ) (picture courtesy:  WGCU  )

miko huyani'cha

cati hiliswa  ( red medicine )

chufi insakka afaga ( a vine sorta like the strawberry plant.  means rabbit-basket-string )

hiliswa hatkee ( ginseng )

tutka chokishi ( moss species )

wilanv ( yellow water, jerusalem oak )

passv ( a mixture of herbs used at Green Corn )