"Medicine” is a song-anthem honouring the traditions of folk medicine; plant-based medicine as a tool for empowerment and healing. It is a call to action to support the voices of the herbalists, healers, and teachers… the roots, plants, trees, and stones… the arts, the spirits, and the wild ones. It is an honouring of all the many ways that we can be well, and the traditional ways in which we can steward health within ourselves.
This song is a direct tribute to the people around the world who are holding and teaching these ways of herbal plant-based medicine, educating us all to know our gardens, our forests, our plants and our own bodies... to bring wellness back into our own hands and communities. It is not a dismissal of modern medicine, but a gratitude and honouring of its ancestry and foundations within folkloric traditions.
By: Rising Appalachia.
The Sounds of the Tribute
Medicine
Wise men say that rushing is violence and so is your silence when its rooted in compliance To stand firm in loving defiance, make art your alliance give voice to the fire
Move people to the beat of the wind Gather yourself and begin to dance the song until it ends We are winners, champions of the light forming in numbers and might keep the truth close in sight...
Chorus: Medicine Woman, Medicine Man walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands Medicine Woman, Medicine Man walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands Find your teachers in the voice of the forests unplug you can’t ignore this wisdom of the voiceless
Remedies are bountiful and surround us from the garden to the farthest prayers made of star dust Find your healing in the music that calls you the voice that enthrals you what do you belong to Eyes out there’s the setting of the sun give thanks to each and everyone the lesson is the...
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man walking with grace I know your face, and I trust your hand Medicine Woman, Medicine Man walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hand
Mariana Zinna