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Guardian of a Sacred Trust - Page 2

© Traute Klein, biogardener

The Curse of the Lake Country

On my very first visit to Victoria Beach in 1953, I was introduced to the curse of the beaches. It was not the unpredictable storms which were claiming lives on the lake every year. It was the pretty plant with the shiny leaves which was feared the most by all cottagers. I had been employed as a mother's helper for the Davidson family and had to be able to guard their four children from all harm. Immediately upon arrival at the lake, Mrs. Davidson showed me the plant. It was visible everywhere I looked. Every little child learned to recognize it, but no one knew how to counteract its poisonous bite, not even the dermatologist Dr. Davidson for whose wife I worked. He had spent every summer of his life at that lake like his father before him who also had been a physician. Oh yes, there was talk of a native remedy, but no one had any idea of what it was, because the medicne men knew how to guard their secrets.

The Secret Revealed

It was the old missionary lady to whom the natives entrusted this remedy and she passed it on to a family who also practiced natural methods of healing, and this family, in turn, passed it on to those friends who believed in the healing powers of the earth. I was priviledged to have been one of them, and I heard about the detoxifying power of wet clay that evening after I had witnessed its healing power on my own sunburned body.

Guarding the Secret

I count it a priviledge to be one of the guardians of this sacred trust of the earth, of this secret which was passed on to me from the Aboriginals of Manitoba. In almost half a century, I have passed this secret on to hundreds of people in need of its healing virtues. Those who disrespect the powers of nature have declined to accept the native wisdom and have preferred to suffer the ravages of poisoning. Those who believe in the efficacy of natural remedies have not been disappointed in the powers of this secret, the secret of the healing and detoxifying earth. I first wrote about the practical application of working with wet clay in my article "First Aid Naturally" (linked below). There you can find out how you, too, can benefit from its seemingly magical properties.

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