Already Medicine
Everything about us is already medicine; everything that has been given is healing
Kamaki Kanahele is a traditional Hawaiian healer and priest, and director of Native Hawaiian traditional healing at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center on O‘ahu. Kamaki shares that all things are medicine: “the earth, the sun, the sea, the mountains, the plants, everything we have been given is healing.”
Native Hawaiian
O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
Hawai‘i
Everything about us is already medicine; everything that has been given is healing
Thanking the Creator and taking care of the Creator’s creations
Death and dying is a part of the natural order
The patient is mine forever
Plants as a treatment for a rash