Visual Summary of Traditional Medicines

The Community Health Centre (CHC) for a BC First Nation for delivers holistic health services through four sub-departments, one of which specializing in Traditional Healing. They are guided by the First Nation’s traditional principles and values and aim to integrate traditional methods into all their practices. The community has identified a need to summarize traditional uses of local plants in a visual medium to be easily shared and displayed. This project created a visual summary of traditional medicines and local plants used by the CHC’s local expert herbologist, in efforts to preserve and revitalize traditional medicines knowledge. Project members conducted research using online resources, community partner interviews, and other community-specific sources including existing pamphlets and handouts to create a poster visualizing summaries of local plants and their common uses. The traditional medicines were translated into their traditional names.